January 31, 2008

Business Intelligence Textbooks for My Class

Written by: Juanchito

I’m in a Business Intelligence course this semester and the teacher has required two textbooks. The first is Delivering Business Intelligence with Microsoft SQL Server 2005. Looks like this book we’ll just be going through and doing exercises. Here you can buy it on Amazon if you’re interested:

The other book is called Business Intelligence: A Managerial Approach. I guess this is suppose to be the theoretical book on implementing Business Intelligence. I was going to post the link to amazon, but it turns out they don’t offer it. In fact, I can’t find it anywhere on the net. What kind of crappy book is that? If I find it later, then I’ll post a link. Ok, so the teacher is responsible for my pain. I found it on Amazon and the correct ISBN is 978-0132347617 Looks like some entertaining reading:

Not the Error You Want from Your Online Banking

Written by: Juanchito

I just got the following error when I tried to login to my online bank account:

Error 500–Internal Server Error
From RFC 2068 Hypertext Transfer Protocol — HTTP/1.1:
10.5.1 500 Internal Server Error

The server encountered an unexpected condition which prevented it from fulfilling the request.

If I’m visiting my friend’s webpage, that page is fine. If I’m visiting some other website on the internet, no big deal. In fact, Google Cache probably has the page anyway and so I can just view it there. The one place I don’t like to see that error message is my online bank. So, pull it together and get a more robust website.