I have just arrived in Hong Kong and my first impression is ‘amazing’. The skyline is really impressive, especially at night when everything is lit up. The city itself is very lively and fairly clean, seems well organized and quite convenient. Went to the symphony of lights, which is a joint display of building lighting …
Monthly archives: November 2009
Flying high
Been on the Singapore Flyer on one of my last days in Singapore. The tickets are quite reasonably priced and I had a great experience doing a night flight. The capsule was quite full, so moving around to get good photos had it’s challenges. Unfortunately, the capsules are lit up on the outside, which makes …
Day trip to Bintan
After spending almost 15 months in Singapore without traveling to anywhere else in Asia, I got just another stamp in my passport today traveling to Bintan, Indonesia. The ferry left at about 8, which meant I had to get up at 6. Not sure why I decide to get up earlier on the weekend then …
Biking on Pulau Ubin
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E=mc2
Went to science center today and really enjoyed it. It is a try-out museum ranging from physics to biology. The main reason to go there was the body works exhibition having human bodies on display. If you can deal with the hire factor of looking at real bodies, taken apart for the purpose of science …
Monitor Process Chains
When running a steady-state BI implementation you certainly spend a lot of time loading data from your source systems to make them available in your reports and for interfaces. Since the timely and correct loading of data is critical to the success of a BI implementation the monitoring of the load process is vital.
See below a few tools and transactions, which I commonly use to get an overview (and drill down to the details) of the status of the BI loading.