Oracle .NET Data Provider not Supported but Necessary for Cube Design

I've decided that from now on, consulting project estimates will be padded for an
additional week to get Oracle connectivity working...

Parameterized Top Values Report

Top ranked lists are a common type of report. In many cases business users may want
to see only a specific...

PASS European Conference in April

While it is probably out of reach for most DBAs in the United States to attend, the PASS European Conference...

PASS Releases Survey Results & Summit Location – Reactions

The Impetus
So after Andy Warren’s (@SqlAndy) blog post, PASS Update #24, last week and the follow-up posts by myself (A...

PASS Update #25 (Summit Location and More)

By now you’ve probably seen the official announcement from PASS about the Summit being located in Seattle for both 2011...

Report Parameter Date Range

A forum poster wanted to use a StartDate parameter to limit the range of dates available
in a second parameter to...

SCSUG (Space Coast SQL Users Group) Meeting Tonight Featuring PFE David Pless

In case you missed David Pless in Orlando on Tuesday, you have another chance to see his presentation tonight (Thursday...

Self-Service Reporting Best Practices on the Microsoft BI Platform

Article from the Architecture Journal ? 12-15-2009
by Paul Turley

Once upon a time, there was a big company whose IT department

wanted...

Setup Database Snapshot against a Mirrored Database (Part 2)

This post is the second post in my series about Database mirroring. For part one is titled Configuring Database Mirroring...

SharePoint 2010 and Various Versions of SQL Server

Microsoft has recently announced that SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 will RTM in April 2010, and will be officially launched...