Choosing the Right Microsoft Reporting Technology Part 3: PowerPivot

Today I’ll be continuing in a blog series designed to help you decide which presentation tool is best for your...

Choosing the Right Microsoft Reporting Technology Part 4: PerformancePoint

If you’ve followed this blog series from the beginning then you may have started thinking about which tools would be...

Comparing users and role memberships between two databases

The other day I was asked to restore a production database into a development environment and then check the database...

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To create a PowerView report first we need to create a BI Semantic Model Connection,

but If we did not deploy...

Fast Track for SQL Server 2012

When the Fast Track Data Warehouse 3.0 Reference Guide was published, it was based off of SQL Server 2008 R2....

Microsoft DreamSpark Program

Back in 2008, Microsoft rolled out the DreamSpark program as a means to get Microsoft software design and development tools...

Microsoft Releases SQL Server 2008 SP3 Cumulative Update 4

Microsoft has also released SQL Server 2008 SP3 Cumulative Update 4. This is Build 10.00.5775.00, and it has ten fixes...

Speaking at SQL Saturday Houston

It’s SQL Saturday season again!  I found out this morning that I’ll be speaking at next month’s SQL Saturday event...

Spring DevConnections 2012

Hello Dear Reader, this week finds me in beautiful Miami FL.  Next week I’ll be in Vegas, for one night...

SQL Lunch - SQL Reporting Services

Tomorrow at 11:30 CST Pam Shaw will be talking SQL Reporting Services (SSRS).  If you have time, join us for...