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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...

Building a SharePoint 2013 BI Demo Environment Part 7 – Configuring SharePoint

In this blog post we go over one of the most important parts of the series: running the PowerPivot Configuration...

Building a SharePoint 2013 BI Demo Environment Part 6 – Installing PowerPivot for SharePoint

Before we can configure SharePoint, we will have to install the Analysis Service instance that will host the PowerPivot workbooks...