Using Team Foundation Service
Team Foundation Service (TFS) is the “cloud” version of Team Foundation Server 2012. Up to 5 users are free, plus for a...
2013-02-19
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James Serra's Blog
“DBA: Transitioning to a BI Role” Presentation Slides
Thanks to everyone who attended my presentation “DBA: Transitioning to a BI Role” at the PASS Professional Development Virtual Chapter. The recording...
2013-02-14
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Introduction to Microsoft’s Master Data Services (MDS) Presentation Slides
Thanks to everyone who attended my presentation “Introduction to Microsoft’s Master Data Services (MDS)” at the Houston Area SQL Server User Group...
2013-02-13
1,907 reads
“DBA: Transitioning to a BI Role” Presentation
Tomorrow (Wednesday, Feb 13th) at Noon CST I will be presenting the session “DBA: Transitioning to a BI Role” at...
2013-02-12
759 reads
Introduction to Microsoft’s Master Data Services (MDS) Presentation
Tomorrow (Tuesday, Feb 12th) at 11:30am CST, I will be presenting the session “Introduction to Microsoft’s Master Data Services (MDS)” at...
2013-02-11
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24 Hours of PASS: Business Analytics Edition videos online
On January 30, BA and BI experts took to the virtual stage for the 24 Hours of PASS: Business Analytics Edition to...
2013-02-07
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Installing Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2012
My experience installing Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2012 to house my business intelligence projects built in Visual Studio 2010:
I am installing...
2013-02-05
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SSIS 2012: Empty toolbox?
This is an annoying problem I have had a few times: I open a SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) project...
2013-01-29
5,078 reads
Missing Data Quality Service (DQS) buttons in Excel
The Master Data Services add-in for Excel has Data Quality Services functionality to help you match data before publishing it...
2013-01-24
1,377 reads
PASS Business Analytics Conference Presentation
I am fortunate enough to have been selected to give a presentation at the PASS Business Analytics Conference in Chicago...
2013-01-23
1,408 reads
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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