PASS Business Analytics Conference: the ultimate networking
I went to the PASS Business Analytics Conference last week, and had an absolute blast. I presented two sessions, and...
2013-04-18
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James Serra's Blog
Geoflow Preview for Excel 2013
Last week at the PASS Business Analytics Conference in Chicago, Microsoft disclosed a public preview of GeoFlow for Excel (download). GeoFlow” is...
2013-04-16
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PASS SQL Saturday in Chicago Presentation Slides
Thanks to everyone who attended my sessions “What exactly is Business Intelligence?” and “Building an Effective Data Warehouse Architecture” at the PASS SQL...
2013-04-15
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PASS Business Analytics Conference Presentation Slides
Thanks to everyone who attended my sessions “Overview of Microsoft Appliances” and “Building an Effective Data Warehouse Architecture” at the PASS Business Analytics...
2013-04-15
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PASS Business Analytics Conference Live Blog
Apologies if you went to my site this morning to see my blog from the bloggers table at PASS Business Analytics...
2013-04-12
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PASS Business Analytics Conference
The PASS Business Analytics Conference is almost here! Check out the sessions to be presented at the conference and you will see...
2013-04-08
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Microsoft BI tools: How they use data sources
A quick list of how each of these Microsoft BI tools handles the two data sources “SQL Server” (relational-based) and...
2013-04-02
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SQL Server 2012 Business Intelligence Enhancements
My first article in SQL Server Pro magazine has been published. It is entitled “SQL Server 2012 Business Intelligence Enhancements”...
2013-03-28
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TFS vs SSIS project versioning
I had someone ask me the other day if they are using SSIS 2012 Project Versions, is there any benefit...
2013-03-26
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Benefits of using views in a BI solution
Using SQL Server views throughout a Business Intelligence (BI) solution can provide a tremendous amount of benefits. Here is a...
2013-03-19
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Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #204 – Are blogs still relevant?
By DesertDBA
Note: This post is the invitation for T-SQL Tuesday #204 on November 3rd, 2026....
A Front Door for the DBA Team – AgentDBA UI
By Arun Sirpal
AgentDBA began as a command line. That suits one DBA on one server, but...
Cleaning Up Azure MS Defender Billing
By Steve Jones
I have a few Azure subscriptions, which are fairly small and not used that...
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