Bex Bax Dax Pax

Recently I have participated in some BI meetings where the participants were discussing how to create new applications. Nowadays this seems to be very complicated, they use BEX DAX and all kinds of esoteric cryptic query languages. All tasks very complex, offloading data from one multi-dimensional data warehouse to data lakes into tabular data cubes stores.'You have to move the data to a data lake because you cannot have measures in BEX, then DAX with measures to a tabular cube and then we can apply PowerBI and create the application'. I use tables and SQL, after listening to the modern BI workers, SQL seems like an attractive option. What the modern BI consultant needs days or weeks for, I can do in hours.
The only interesting thing said at those meetings were tabular cubes. Tabular Cubes!? I do not know what that is, it seems to be a scaled down multi dimensional cube, the human brain can comprehend, still complex enough keeping business people out. O tempora, o mores.

Lost in the cloud

I'm sitting here and thinking how sharp I am

I'm the under assistant blob store contrib man 

Lasse Phelge & Lars Nanker

Recently I have been promoted to an Azure Blob Storage Contributor. We are trying to move my old Data Warehouse to the cloud. So far we have moved zero bits, we are fighting the network. You see these YouTube promos how easy it is to work with the cloud, you just click here and there and you are done the mysterious cloud fix everything for you. The reason why I fail is probably because I'm old and daft and that is reason I'm now a blob storage contributor. I'm at the bottom of the new cloud business food chain..