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TechEd 2009 BI Power Hour Demos

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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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 an average satisfaction score of 3.46 on the scale from 1 to 4. For someone who does presentations occasionally, I'm personally happy with…

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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 name since Richard came from the Analysis Services team and maintains the www.sqlservernanalysisservices.com website. He recently moved to the Madison team. Madison is a new product and…

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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 with display folders, perspectives, hierarchies, etc. so it appears more user-friendly in Excel. Later, I learned that Office 2010 (or whatever it will…

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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. Economy is hitting everything hard. I thought the keynote was kind of lame. Judging by it, Microsoft has only three products:…

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