Special thanks to Rittman Mead for sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com this week.

Rittman Mead is a leading global data and analytics company that enables its clients to exploit their business data for substantial and sustained competitive advantage. We deliver innovative and cost-effective business information systems and consultancy. By using the latest data and analytics technologies, we enable clients to stay ahead of their competitors, accelerate growth and meet regulatory requirements efficiently.

We write an industry leading blog focused on data, analytics, business intelligence and data warehousing that has been running since 2003 and hosts over 2000 posts. We offer a cloud-based BI service and share a Git repository of useful scripts for managing some of the tools we typically use.