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Most Requested Features

You can use the Microsoft Connect website to find most requested features. Unfortunately, the search doesn't let you specify a product so the search results may be related to other products. For example, searching on reporting services may bring in...

Published Mon, Dec 21 2009 4:06 PM by Teo Lachev

Filed under: General, Reporting Services, Analysis Services
Microsoft Live Labs Pivot

In case you've missed this, the Pivot era has begun. After Excel PivotTable and PivotChart, we'll have PowerPivot in SQL Server 2008 R2. But Pivot evolves… A co-worker showed me today a glimpse of the Pivot future which I guess is the Microsoft...

Published Wed, Dec 2 2009 3:39 PM by Teo Lachev

Filed under: General
Cumulative Update 3 for SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1

Microsoft released today a Cumulative Update 3 for SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1. Among other things it fixes the Report Builder 2.0 ClickOnce deployment issue on x64 which I reported here .

Published Tue, Jul 21 2009 12:44 PM by Teo Lachev

Filed under: General, SQL Server 2008
Google – The Best Thing that Ever Happened to Microsoft

On a different subject, you've probably heard the news : Google will release an operating system called Google Chrome OS which will challenge Windows and instill fear into the Microsoft camp. To the contrary, I think Google is the best thing that...

Published Wed, Jul 8 2009 7:07 PM by Teo Lachev

Filed under: General
Transmissions from TechEd USA 2009 (Day 4)

I got the final evaluation results from my session. Out of some 15 Business Intelligence sessions, mine was the fourth most attended session with 169 people attending. Based on 35 evaluations submitted, it was ranked as the third most useful session with...

Published Fri, May 15 2009 1:08 AM by Teo Lachev

Filed under: General, Business Intelligence, Events
Transmissions from TechEd USA 2009 (Day 3)

Today was a long day. I started by attending the Richard Tkachuk's A First Look at Large-Scale Data Warehousing in Microsoft SQL Server Code Name "Madison". Those of you familiar with Analysis Services would probably recognize the presenter's...

Published Thu, May 14 2009 12:51 AM by Teo Lachev

Filed under: General, Business Intelligence, Events
Transmissions from TechEd USA 2009 (Day 2)

I started the day by attending the Donald Farmer and Daniel Yu's session "Creating the Right Cubes for Microsoft Excel and Excel Services" hoping that I'll get a sneak preview of Excel 2010. Alas, it was all about refining the cube definition...

Published Wed, May 13 2009 1:31 AM by Teo Lachev

Filed under: General, SQL Server 2008, Events
Transmissions from TechEd USA 2009 (Day 1)

Day 1 of TechEd 2009 is almost over with the exception of the Community Influencers Party tonight. I heard that this year they expect 7,000 attendees. This is a huge scale-down from previous years. For instance, we had 16,000 attendees at TechEd USA 2007...

Published Mon, May 11 2009 11:33 PM by Teo Lachev

Filed under: General, Business Intelligence, Events
SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 is Out

Yesterday, Microsoft released SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3. Reporting Services Report Builder added support with Teradata. Note that some manual configuration is required to turn things 'on' as well as you need to install the .Net provider from...

Published Thu, Dec 18 2008 8:03 AM by Teo Lachev

Filed under: General, Reporting Services
BI Salary Survey

Not sure how much your BI expertise is worth? The 2008 TDWI Salary, Roles, and Responsibilities Report TDWI survey may help.

Published Tue, May 20 2008 2:46 PM by Teo Lachev

Filed under: General, Business Intelligence
Microsoft Launches Tafiti

Microsoft launches a preview of a cool search portal dubbed Tafiti to bring the web search to a new level and give Google a run for its money. From FAQ "Tafiti, which means 'do research' in Swahili, is an experimental search front-end from...

Published Fri, Aug 24 2007 12:04 PM by Teo Lachev

Filed under: General
SQL Server 2008 (Katmai) to Launch February 28th 2008

From the latest MS press release "In anticipation for the most significant Microsoft enterprise event in the next year, Turner announced that Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 will launch together at an event in...

Published Thu, Jul 12 2007 9:47 AM by Teo Lachev

Filed under: General
SQL Server Samples to CodePlex

The March release of SQL Server 2005 samples is available for download . Note that Microsoft has moved all SQL Server 2005 samples (standard and open source) to the CodePlex website . The documentation is still on MSDN. So, GotDotNet is dead, long live...

Published Fri, Apr 27 2007 2:37 PM by Teo Lachev

Filed under: General
MVP Summit Is Over

MVP Summit is over and I am back in Atlanta. I had great time meeting other MVPs, MS employees, and learning about the future in MS terms. I posted pictures from the event. Some interesting statistics given to us by Microsoft: The MVP Summit is the largest...

Published Mon, Mar 19 2007 1:23 PM by Teo Lachev

Filed under: General
2007 MVP Global Summit

Joining some 2,000 other MVPs from all around the world, I am heading tomorrow for Seattle to participate in the annual MVP Global Summit. It's time to shake hands, take pictures, put names to faces, and soak up as much as possible about what's coming...

Published Sun, Mar 11 2007 9:02 AM by Teo Lachev

Filed under: General

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