Self-service Reporting in SQL Server “Denali”

Project “Crescent” is the name currently used to describe the new self-service reporting
capability to be released in the next version...

XBox 360 250GB and Kinect Bundle

I took the plunge and bought one of the new 250GB XBox 360 and Kinect bundles for $399 at Best...

Cloudy Days Ahead

Microsoft is investing heavily in cloud computing with several online services available
under the Azure Platform. 

SQL Azure

The SQL Azure cloud...

PASS 2010 Summit Announcements and New SQL Server Developments

To say that this was a very full conference would be an understatement.  The
SQL Server platform has grown to be...

Free SQL Server Training for the Week of November 15, 2010

Tuesday
SQL Lunch - Get a Lever and Pick Any Turtle: Lifting with Metadata - Cade Roux
Pragmatic Works - SSIS Dataflow - Designing for Performance...

How I like to work

This is a great sign. I see if every time I go to Brother’s BBQ in Denver and it never...

My Fat Finger and the Target Invocation Exception

I was creating an SSIS package recently and ran into the “TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of...

PASS Summit 2010-Thursday

Quick recap of yesterday afternoon: blur! I know I did stuff, but the pace is brisk and I’m just keeping...

SQL Rally Precon Vote Results

The votes have all been tabulated and during PASS this week the top pre conference seminars were announced for SQL Rally.Thankfully...

SSIS : Using variables as a source in a Data Flow Component

Currently, none of the existing Data Flow sources allow you to source
variables.  Once again in my quest for performance, I look to keep as much
data as possible in memory....