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The SQL Bits 7 agenda was published recently , and I’m pleased to say that I will be delivering a session titled ‘End to End Master Data Management with SQL Server Master Data Services’. The heart of this session will be an end-to-end technical demo that...
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Following on from my post on Friday, Session submission is now closed. There have been very close to 100 sessions submitted about pretty much everything to do with SQL Server (some very loosely!!) Unfortunately we can’t fit all of these sessions...
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I’m sure you’ve heard already that the next SQLbits runs from September 30th to October 2nd at York University but today (16th July) is the last chance if you want to submit a presentation. I’d better get mine in!
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I can’t imagine too many people will have this issue, but just in case you you have a similar environment it’s bad news I’m afraid. Connections from 64-bit applications to AS2000 aren’t possible as there is no x64 oledb 8.0 AS driver. If you’re running...
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Back to a bit of Master Data Services this week – there’s been a few learning resources that have appeared here and there for MDS over the past couple of months. I thought that it would be worth rounding up the ones that I’ve noticed: Installing and Configuring...
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Microsoft Business Intelligence Conference at TECH-ED North America 2010 New Orleans, Louisiana June 7 th -10 th Our approach The conference center was 1 mile in length, and attendance was shared with approximately 11,000 people (7,000 were attendees...
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Day 2 and the BI Keynote. Announcements? Only two, although actually, old news: - They announced the availability of the MS BI Indexing Connector . Originally announced back in May - They got their story straight(er) with regard to the release of what...
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The Tech-Ed 2010 Conference kicked off today with the Keynote session. The BI Keynote session is tomorrow but today's keynote did incorporate a small BI Element. No huge announcements, but some announcements all the same. - Unsuprisingly, Cloud computing...
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New Orleans 'Brits Abroad' Checklist Bourbon Street - Check Yo Mammas Burger - Check Pat O'Brian's " Hurricane " - Check Absenth Frappe - Chickened out Irish Car Bomb - Wish I'd Chickened Out Alligator 'Hunting' ...
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There was a comment on my last blog post by Peter Eb asking about whether Reporting Services 2008 R2 knows how to render SSAS KPIs automatically. The short answer is that it doesn't unfortunately, but there are only a few steps needed to get it working...
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MSFT have just a published a new document about how to use PowerPivot Cubes\workbooks as data sources for your PPS dashboards. Worth a read as it doesn’t work quite the same way as a standard AS data source in PPS. A couple of things stood...
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Whilst the core components of SQL 2008 R2 have been signing autographs on the red carpet, Master Data Services has sneaked quietly in through the back door. If you have MSDN access, download a full version (guessing developer and enterprise...
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Although you've always been able to deliver KPIs in Reporting Services by using images and expressions, Reporting Services in SQL Server 2008 R2 now includes a feature called Indicators, which assists with producing KPIs out of the box. This got me...
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As Chris Webb has already mentioned the latest SQLBits was the best attended and (in our opinion) the slickest event yet. We still want to make it even better though and we can only do that with your feedback. This is all done online and can be completely...
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The smart money is on the SQLBits conference this year, as Microsoft BI (all on SQL Server) steps into the Data Warehouse performance realm with proper volumes. This year's theme is performance and scalability, so as an ex-Teradata man, it is great...