Databases are Trash Cans

July 23, 2019 Jeff Hainsworth

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For those of us who live and breathe business intelligence (BI) all the time, a poor database can be the bane of a BI project. Let’s talk about the problems that databases can have, and how a unique data layer like what Dundas BI offers can solve these problems.

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