Magenic Company Blog

Now that some of the dust has settled on Microsoft's vision for the direction of the company and their role to enterprise, it's time to have a serious discussion about positioning your company to be ready for the future. This isn’t a blog on 'future-proofing' your infrastructure, but instead a 'peppers' guide to surviving the web's transition to the cloud.

Of course Magenic provides many services and products for many different businesses. As an example, Steve Hughes, Business Intelligence Project Lead for Magenic, took some time to share some elements of a recent project.

This past Thursday, Magenic hosted a Business Intelligence Summit in Chicago. We had some customers, partners, and consultants present on the role that business intelligence has in their worlds. It was great to see our customers talk about how their projects were implemented and how we overcame both business and technology challenges.

I attended a recent gathering on the topic of “Big Data” sponsored by MinneAnalytics at Medtronic here in Minneapolis. With so much talk about the cloud, mobile, bandwidth, etc. it may be easy to forget that at the core of all of it is data!* That data continues to grow, showing no signs of slowing (obviously) and we are hanging onto all of it.

The long wait is now over, SQL 2012 has finally been released! No more Code Name Denali. No more CTP 0. The next question, though, is what do we do with it? I am sure just about all CTOs, CIOs, IT managers and directors have already started to ask why they should upgrade, migrate, develop on, or purchase SQL 2012.

After the SSDT product shipped, I spent some time converting an existing project ( dbproj / Data Dude based project) to SSDT. Actually, I decided not to convert the project, even though I was prompted to do so. Instead, I decided to re-import the SQL 2012 database. My reason to do so was the fact that the old project was breaking down each table into multiple files, one per object.