SSIS Deployments with SQL Server 2012

This article describes different methods for deploying your SSIS projects to a server.

Rants about Connect

The site connect.microsoft.com is a wonderful concept: you can provide feedback about the Microsoft products, report bugs and give suggestions...

What's in a name?

Data Visualization – Book Review

To prepare myself for my session Data Visualization Tips & Tricks, I read a few books. In this blog post, I’ll...

T-SQL Tuesday #44: The second chance

This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Bradly Ball (blog | twitter) and the topic is second chances. The idea is...

SQL 2014 CTP1, where is my BIDS?

Oh wait sorry, I meant SSDT. Or was it SSDTBI? To avoid confusion about the developer tool to create BI...

Building a SharePoint 2013 BI Demo Environment Part 10 – Creating a BI site

In the final part of this series, we will create a BI subsite in our site collection. You can use...

Building a SharePoint 2013 BI Demo Environment Part 9 – Installing Reporting Services

Finally we are getting to the really sweet stuff: Power View. But first we have to install Reporting Services in...

Building a SharePoint 2013 BI Demo Environment Part 5 – Installing SharePoint

Let’s get started with the next step in the series: installing SharePoint. We will install only the software, but we...

Building a SharePoint 2013 BI Demo Environment Part 8 – Verifying PowerPivot Integration

After configuring SharePoint in the part 7, we will now verify if the configuration was successful and if everything works...