Rants about Connect
The site connect.microsoft.com is a wonderful concept: you can provide feedback about the Microsoft products, report bugs and give suggestions...
2013-07-29
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Koen Verbeeck
Data Visualization – Book Review
To prepare myself for my session Data Visualization Tips & Tricks, I read a few books. In this blog post, I’ll...
2013-07-16
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T-SQL Tuesday #44: The second chance
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Bradly Ball (blog | twitter) and the topic is second chances. The idea is...
2013-07-09
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SQL 2014 CTP1, where is my BIDS?
Oh wait sorry, I meant SSDT. Or was it SSDTBI? To avoid confusion about the developer tool to create BI...
2013-06-28
4,492 reads
Building a SharePoint 2013 BI Demo Environment Part 10 – Creating a BI site
In the final part of this series, we will create a BI subsite in our site collection. You can use...
2013-06-12
3,076 reads
Building a SharePoint 2013 BI Demo Environment Part 9 – Installing Reporting Services
Finally we are getting to the really sweet stuff: Power View. But first we have to install Reporting Services in...
2013-06-11
4,689 reads
Building a SharePoint 2013 BI Demo Environment Part 8 – Verifying PowerPivot Integration
After configuring SharePoint in the part 7, we will now verify if the configuration was successful and if everything works...
2013-06-10
4,062 reads
Building a SharePoint 2013 BI Demo Environment Part 7 – Configuring SharePoint
In this blog post we go over one of the most important parts of the series: running the PowerPivot Configuration...
2013-06-07
1,196 reads
Building a SharePoint 2013 BI Demo Environment Part 6 – Installing PowerPivot for SharePoint
Before we can configure SharePoint, we will have to install the Analysis Service instance that will host the PowerPivot workbooks...
2013-06-06
3,389 reads
Building a SharePoint 2013 BI Demo Environment Part 5 – Installing SharePoint
Let’s get started with the next step in the series: installing SharePoint. We will install only the software, but we...
2013-06-10 (first published: 2013-06-05)
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Blogs
SQL Server Security: Always Encryption
By Vinay Thakur
As discussed introduction of Always Encryption blog and initial Encryption at rest as TDE...
SQL Server Security – TDE Encryption
By Vinay Thakur
Transparent Data Encryption(TDE): TDE was initially introduced in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition; this...
A Las Vegas Break
By Steve Jones
Only a little break for me. I’m actually heading to Las Vegas today for ...
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences III
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which can be used with the BIGINT data type?
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