What's a Business Analyst To Do? What happened to the role of the business analyst on agile software projects? Extreme Programming, a pioneering agile methodology, talks a lot about the interactions ...
You know that feeling you get when a friend tells you about a great feature or shortcut you didn’t know existed in an app that you use all the time? Feels great, doesn’t it? That’s what I’m hoping to...
Active Listening You have two ears and one mouth for a reason. My advice to most people–regardless of profession–is to listen more than you speak. For a business analyst however, the art of listening ...
Heavy Lifting Most of time, the workload on business analyst is pretty reasonable; however, sometimes a massive amount of requirements must be gathered in a short amount of time. I've helped many comp...
When Push Comes to Shove Gathering requirements seems like a straightforward process, but sometimes it's hard to figure out the relative importance of the requirements. If you're running an agile proj...
We are pleased to announce the release of Toad Data Point v3.7. This new version is now available to download. Existing customers who own Toad Data Point can download the latest version at Quest Sup...
This is part 3 of the Transformation and Cleans videos. I would like to go over the duplicates rule and calculated column rule. Duplicates can be a very common but complex task as duplicates ca...
This is part 2 of the Transformation and Cleanse videos. In my first video I went over the basics of the window, how to access and process data. In this video I will go over most of the rules. The...
In Toad Data Point 3.7 we have rewritten the Transformation and Cleanse window. This new window now includes data profiling information, many more transformation rules and a robust engine for processi...
In the real world I found that most customers have two or more different database vendors in house and sometimes there is a business need to join both database environments. I found some features in T...
Toad Family of Data and Database Management Solutions UPdate Live from the TDWI 2014 conference in San Diego, Quest announced a series of upgrades to its award-winning Toad™ data and database manage...
This video demonstrates how to comment out clauses in the Toad Data Point query builder....
