Author: Kevin

  • Reading from a data source

    Last time we listed out several things that can be done with or to a data source. Now all of the examples we’ll be using in this series will use a database as a data source. It will allow us to discuss another of my favorite topics — SQL — while we talk about what…

  • What is not a data source?

    What can’t be used as a data source? Let me explain…

  • Data Sources

    Data Sources! Data Sources! Data Sources! Yes, that’s a throwback to one of my favorite tech memes of all time – with Steve Ballmer (CEO of Microsoft at the time.) So, in all its shining glory I present: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhh_GeBPOhs] Where would we be without the lowly data source? Absolutely Nowhere! What really is a…

  • Data

    Data

    The very definition of Data is the factual information (as measurements or statistics) used as a basis for reasoning, discussion, or calculation. [Source] The data that I work with on a daily basis. The life blood of a company. Without data, no company can expect to make intellectual decisions that will affect their outcome positively. Without…

  • It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.

    Thus, begins one of the greatest stories of all time, or at least so I’m told. And so, begins my blog. I figure if it’s good enough for Charles Dickens, it’s good enough for me. The impetus behind this blog is to help the “normal” person make sense out of the more technical things that…