I saw this and I just knew I needed to share it with others. My first thought was that The Bloggess must have had a birthday. My second thought was “crap, i forgot to send her a card”. Then I remembered that Jenny never gave me her address so I have no idea how to [...]

The question I pose to you this week is quite simple: who do you trust the most when you are given statistics to back up an argument?
Consider the fine example to the left. While technically true, it really is useless, right? You have no other information or details to review. You are simply told that [...]

I got this email yesterday and I have to give this spammer credit, they really did make me take notice.

 
 
 
So I looked out the window and did not see anything and then I started to think that maybe if someone did start Armageddon they probably would not bother to send out an email press release. [...]

The question this week has to do with your data entry validation. For most ETL processes there is a lot of effort put into scrubbing of data for various reasons and benefits. So, how and what do you use to scrub your data?
And what about the data that, while technically “fits” into a particular field, [...]