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Now that I've got my copy and read it, I can say a few things about the book Expert Cube Development with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services by Chris Webb, Alberto Ferrari, and Marco Russo. As mentioned in another post , the authors (all MVPs and prominent SSAS experts) don't disappoint...
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We are excited to announce the availability of an online Analysis Services 2008 class – no travel, no hotel expenses, just 100% content delivered right to your desktop ! This intensive 3-day online class (14 training hours) is designed to help you become proficient with Analysis Services 2008 and...
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After retiring Office Web Components (OWC), which can hardly can pass the web test as it is implemented as an ActiveX control, Microsoft left developers with no web-based browser for Analysis Services. True, for those who can afford the hefty price tag, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) supports...
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The TechEd 2009 BI Power Hour demos, which I blogged about before, are posted on the Microsoft BI Blog. Robert Bruckner has also posted the SSRS demo from the TechED USA 2008 Power Hour, which he renamed to Sea Battle.
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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 an average satisfaction score of 3.46 on the scale...
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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 name since Richard came from the Analysis...
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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. Economy is hitting everything hard. I thought...
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Today was supposed to be the birthday of the SQL Server 2008 Business Intelligence Development and Maintenance Toolkit by Microsoft Press but it's not available with retailers, such as Amazon , yet. I guess a couple or so more days as the book is finding its way to resellers. As with the 2005 version...
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ComputerWorld ranks BI as the fifth hottest IT skill.
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Thanks to the Robert Bruckner's blog , I've learned that Microsoft has published the Reporting Services 2008 Information Aggregator . It is a cool dashboard page that aggregates a variety of resources related to Reporting Services, such as training content, white papers, blogs and more. I'm...
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Issue You have a table with pivoted measures, such as: Use the following statement to create and populate the table: CREATE TABLE pvt ( VendorID int , DateID int , MaturityAmount1 int , MaturityAmount2 int , MaturityAmount3 int , RepricingAmount1 int , RepricingAmount2 int , RepricingAmount3 int ); GO...
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On Friday, Microsoft released chart controls for Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5. These are re-tooled Dundas .NET chart controls which are now baked in the .NET framework. This is important because you can add the same stunning Dundas chart features to your Windows Forms and ASP.NET applications without...
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A quick update on my book Applied Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services. I am happy to announce that the work on the manuscript is over and the manuscript RTM'd (released to manufacturing). The paper copy should be available on the reseller sites and brick and mortar stores around the publication...
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Today, Microsoft released an updated feature pack for SQL Server 2008 RC0. Among other things, it includes: A web downloadable installer for Report Builder 2.0 which is not included anymore with the SQL Server 2008 setup An updated version of the RS add-in for SharePoint Analysis Services 10.0 OLE DB...
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