• Azure - Microsoft - Power BI - Power BI Desktop

    Securing Data in Power BI- an Interactive Diagram

    December 5, 2019 - By 

    I haven’t been very good at sharing my analytics work as often I feel others are more skilled in this area than I am, just starting out, but today I’d like to start to fix that by sharing an interactive diagram.  I know, some of you may be saying, “infographic”, but as it’s has links vs. a paginated design, I’ll call it as I see it. Not the Kitchen Sink This diagram I built for a customer who was interested in how data was secured at different stages of the Power BI environment and was built with their specific Power…

  • Oracle

    Shooting the DBA isn’t a Silver Bullet to the Cloud

    December 8, 2017 - By 

    We’ve all been watching numerous companies view value in bypassing the Database Administrator and other critical IT roles in an effort to get IT faster to the cloud.  It may look incredibly attractive to sales, but the truth of it is, it can be like setting up land mines in your own yard. Having the right people in the right roles, doing the right tasks is essential to having a complete cloud deployment.  Easy access without any checks and balances is just asking for trouble, which I am quickly realizing as I discuss this topic with more folks on my…

  • Data Masking - Delphix - Oracle

    The Security State of the Nation

    August 23, 2017 - By 

    Even though my social media profile is pretty available for Twitter and Linked in, I’m significantly conservative with other personal and financial data online.  The reversal of the Internet Privacy Rule, (I’ve linked to a Fox news link, as there was so much negative news on this one…) had everyone pretty frustrated, but then we need to look at security of personal information, especially financial data and as we can see by security breaches so far in 2017, we all have reason to be concerned. The EU has taken the opposite approach with the right to be forgotten, along with…