Monday, September 1, 2008

Our aim of this Blog

Once we have published our work we aim to provide support and answers to all your queries regarding the use of our model on Microsoft SQL Server and reporting in Microsoft Excel and we will also provide more technical details behind our methods for the curious.

In the meantime we are throwing up some topics for discussion that we are passionate about in our journey of building and designing a data warehouse

Computing Efficiency vs Economic Efficiency

Is there still any point to building “Efficient” computer models. Today’s computers are infinitely more powerful than when many of the design guidelines were set.

Which is better – an inefficient computer model that is easy to understand, implement and use or an efficient computer model that is cumbersome, complicated and takes an inordinate amount of time to implement?

I.E. Computing Efficiency vs Economic Efficiency

This is Jane's ask the Experts Question for Tech'ed this year