It turns out that the Kimball Group is working on a new Kimball University Alumni group for LinkedIn. This is pretty cool because as far as I know, there is no real good way to get in touch with Kimball University “graduates”. The plan is to announce the group officially at some point in the near future (I believe on the next design tip).

According to my “source” (can you tell I’m really trying to sound like a reporter with some really important scoop?), they even have a logo ready to go. As some of you can attest to, the logo can be the hardest thing to settle on!

ETL Subsystems

I’ll be getting back on track with my dissection of the 34 Subsystems of ETL (in which I give my thoughts on each subsystem through SSIS and Visual FoxPro). I took a few weeks off while in Amsterdam, but should be ready to start again. Next on the list is ETL Subsystem 11: Hierarchy Manager. I expect to have it ready by early next week.

LinkedIn

By the way, if you’re on LinkedIn, and you read this blog, feel free to invite me into your network. You likely are a FoxPro user which means I’m going to like you, or you are involved in some way with data warehousing, which means I’m going to like you! Just let me know you’re a reader!