Thank you to Rob Chartier and all of the other volunteers and sponsors of Vancouver TechFest 2009. Due to other commitments, I wasn't able to hang around there all day - although I wish I could have. My "Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence Primer" session was well attended and seemed to be well received. (Except for one guy who couldn't seem to help dozing off.. firecrackers next time...)
There were some very interesting questions and perspectives from the audience - and the overwhelming demographic of techies didn't seem to faze the four or five "business" oriented people. I was heartened to see those particular people nodding subconciously every time I mentioned something to the effect that accumulating cool technology wasn't the best reason to start using BI. I hope the majority of the audience caught my message on that point - I certainly wasn't subtle.
My presentation materials and a recording of the session will soon be available at the TechFest website. In case that's not immediately available to you, I've also posted the slide deck on my SkyDrive. Update 2009-11-25: The presentation recording is now available.
If you attended or heard about the presentation and would like to know more, keep a watch on the Vancouver PASS chapter site. I would like to slot in a night about the more technical aspects that appear in the middle of this TechFest session - about how a traditional OLTP database isn't appropriate for delivering Business Intelligence. Since this group isn't the BI-focused chapter, I intend to discuss things from a point of view of a DBA who needs to make both scenarios play well together. So if you're a interested in what a dimensional model is, why denormalizing is OK in a data warehouse, and what a column-store database is - you don't have to wait too long.
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