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Episode 029 – Jessica Moss

April 10, 2013
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JMMossSmallThis week in episode 029 I’m joined by Jessica Moss who is a Senior Business Intelligence & Data Warehouse Architect from Virginia.  In this episode Jessica and I talk about what a data warehouse is, and some of the problems that came come up with working through a data warehouse project.  Specifically how the language of the business, who has their own language much like IT does, can greatly impact how the data warehouse project is worked through.  Additionally you need to get people to set aside their own ideas of how things need to be done so that, at least for a while, people who are working on the data warehouse project focus on the data warehouse and it’s needs not just the needs of the line of business application which they normally work on.

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Episode 028 – Sean and Jen McCown

March 27, 2013
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SeanJenThis week in episode 028 I’m joined by the Midnight DBAs Sean and Jen McCown.  Sean and Jen are located in Dallas Texas where they broadcast the Midnight DBA webcast from.  In this weeks episode we talk about a bunch of different topics including some of the issues with moving from a more traditional job role as a database administrator to being an Independent Consultant, among other topics that you’ll just have to listen in to explore.  We do kind of jump all over the place.

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Episode 027 – Boris Hristov

March 20, 2013
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Boris HristovThis week in episode 027 I’m joined by Boris Hristov from Bulgaria.  Boris is a SQL Server Database Administrator and Trainer for HP in their consulting services branch of the company.  In this episode Boris and I talk about why all DBAs need to have basic presentation skills.  And it isn’t even for those DBAs who want to get into presenting, but just the normal DBAs which most of us are need to bone up on our PowerPoint and get used to standing in front of our peers at the office from time to time.

Aside from that we also chat a little bit about some of the issues that people are seeing when it comes to adopting SQL Server 2012 (hint, it’s mostly a money problem).

As always, thanks for listening and I hope you enjoy the show.

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Episode 026 – Chris Testa-O’neill, John Martin & Andre Kamman

March 13, 2013
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This week in episode 026 I’m joined by Chris Testa-O’neill, John Martin and Andre Kamman.  Chris is a BI consultant with CoEo based in the UK, John is a Database Administrator based on the UK and Andre is a BI and SQL Server consultant based in the Neatherlands.  In this episode, which was recorded at SQL Saturday 194 in Exeter, England, we talk all about BI Architecture and some of the things that people should be looking at when starting a BI project.

I hope you enjoy the session.

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Episode 025 – Grant Fritchey

March 5, 2013
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GrantRedGateSmilingThis week in episode, number 025 I’m joined by Grant Fritchey.  Grant is a product evangelist for Red Gate software which means he’s probably got the coolest job around.  His job is to talk to people about Red Gate’s products.

During the show this week we talk about some of the ups and downs of working from home and some of the tricks that we’ve learned over the years of working from home to keep yourself sane and keep being productive while working somewhere which is both distracting and isolating all that the same time.

You can find out more about grant on his blog “Home of the Scary DBA“.

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Episode 024 – Karen Lopez

February 26, 2013
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PanelPortraitIn this weeks episode, which is episode 24, I’m joined once again by Karen Lopez.  Karen is a project manager and architect with Info Advisors.  She is also a fellow NASA TweetUp alumni as well as being the owner of some of the most famous and well traveled Barbie dolls in the world.  During this episode we talk about data security, and data loss.  Data loss has been a major problem recently for a lot of companies and government agencies which has led to a lot of peoples information being exposed to what ever random person found/stole it.  Karen and I talk about some of these recent data loss events and how they happened and how they could have been avoided; and most importantly why they should be avoided.   Karen has written a lot about data breaches which you can read about here.

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Here are some write-ups of some of the data breaches which we talked about during the podcast.

Got Health Data? Your Penalty Exposures For Data Breaches Just Increased

Federal Department Bans Use of Portable Devices (YAFF)

Utah Health Department – Yet Another Flashdrive FAIL (YAFF)

BC Health Ministry Data Breach Affects Millions

Karen’s Data Modeling Blog at Datversity.net

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