I hope you were able to attend my free webinar on Introduction to Analysis Services on April 2, 2013.  If you weren’t you can now download the recording here. 

Because I covered new material all the way to the end of the webinar i thought I'd also answer some… Read more

Join me tomorrow, April 2. 2013, at 11:00 PM EST for a free webinar which is part of an entire month of Back to Basics themed free training.  This webinar is for anyone trying to understand the basics behind Analysis Services and how to get started design a cube.  With… Read more

These days the fastest way, not always the most accurate, to get news is through social media.  Technology, sports, politics, and breaking news will always be found first on social media outlets like Twitter. 

For example, I’m a huge fan of American Football or most known as the NFL.  Every… Read more

What is Data Explorer

Data Explorer simplifies the data discovery phase for Excel users that are creating self-service Business Intelligence solutions.  It does this by provided straightforward methods for connecting to data previously unheard of, without a developer, in Excel.  It also provides a basic ETL tool for those involved… Read more

What is Inquire

The Inquire Add-in for Excel 2013 helps you analyze and review your workbooks for things like relationships, invalid formulas, and to compare .xlsx files for differences.  Let’s take some time to review how to enable the add-in and then how to use it.

Enabling the Add-in

If… Read more

I’m very excited to announce that you can now purchase my latest release book:Knight’s Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Integration Services 24-Hour Trainer. The 24-Hour series of books offered by Wrox is a great way to get kick started into learning a new tool. Not only are the lessons… Read more

Did you attend PASS Summit and miss out on some sessions because there were so many or you were busy networking?  Good news!  The recordings are now available for free to watch streaming for all those who attended the conference now here.

If you weren’t an attendee you can… Read more

Life is finally returning to normal after a great week in Seattle for PASS Summit 2012.  The entire year is basically other smaller events (still great events!) that occur to pass the time until Summit arrives.  Like Ted Kummert said in the keynote on Wednesday PASS Summit is like a… Read more

Thanks to all who attended my webinar last Thursday on Building Dynamic Cube Reports.  You can find my code

Recording:

http://pragmaticworks.com/LearningCenter/FreeTrainingWebinars/WebinarDetails.aspx?ResourceId=470

Code:

http://sdrv.ms/RqxbcF

There are several reports in here that step you through the changes I made throughout the webinar.

Also, look for my upcoming SSRS Master Classes that will… Read more

Join me next week for a really fun presentation on building Dynamic SSRS
reports using Analysis Services cubes as a data source.  This webinar will
demonstrate how you can use one of the underutilized features of Analysis
Services called Dynamic Management Views.

Session details:

Designing
Dynamic SSRS Reports using an…

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If you missed any of the great 24 hour of PASS sessions from September you
can now watch the recordings. 

http://www.sqlpass.org/UserLogin.aspx?returnurl=%2fLearningCenter%2fSessionRecordings%2f24HoursFall2012.aspx

Details on my session can be found below:

Session 01 - Choosing the Right Reporting Platform
Presenters: Brian Knight, Devin Knight
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Several weeks ago I posted a quick survey on my blog that asked how you choose a session to attend when you have so many options at conferences.  Thought I’d share the results of the survey today. 

I don’t think there’s anything surprising about it.  Most people overwhelmingly responded that… Read more

Last week during my 24 Hours of PASS session on Choosing a Reporting Platform I fielded a question that appeared multiple times during the Q&A so I thought it would be worth post.

When using Power View in Excel 2013 the first thing you may notice is a screen like… Read more

Tomorrow Brian Knight and I will kick off 24 hours of PASS with a session on Choosing a Microsoft Reporting Platform.  I hope you’re able to join use and indulge in the all day learnathon that PASS is putting on with great list of amazing speakers.

If you’ve never attended… Read more

Many of you have attended sessions by technical speakers at conferences and mini-conferences like SQL Saturday, SQL Rally, 24 Hours of PASS, PASS Summit and many other non-PASS affiliated conference.

You all have different reasons for attending a particular session so I thought it would be interesting to take a… Read more

September is another busy month of speaking events for me and I thought I’d share them with you so maybe I can see you at one of the events.

Date: 09/08/2012

Group: SQL Saturday #167 Columbus, GA

Topic: Adapting Your ETL Solution to use SSIS 2012

With all the great… Read more

Last Wednesday at Jacksonville SQL Server User Group (JSSUG) we held our annual Speaker Idol event.  Read more about what the events all about here.  The event was a success and the speakers all got some great feedback from our panel of experienced speakers (Eric Wisdahl, Jorge… Read more

The Jacksonville SQL Server User Group (JSSUG) has always encouraged new talent to be added to the pool of local speakers.  That’s why tomorrow we will be hosting an annual event called Speaker Idol (I know the name isn’t very original don’t kill me!), which is for anyone that’s interested… Read more

Somehow I missed this gem that’s been around for quite a while so I thought I would share it in case anyone else has yet to see it.  The Forward Engineer add-in is a really great open source project that allows Visio database diagrams you create to easily be converted… Read more

OLAP PivotTable Extensions is a really cool free add-in for Excel that’s been around for quite a while now.  It allows you to have some exposure to what’s going on under the covers (Among many other features) while you browse a cube using an Excel PivotTable. This weekend there has… Read more