BI at the Royal Canadian Mint - TechEd

The Royal Canadian Mint, in Ottawa, is located at a large castle. How cool is that? Would you want to...

T-SQL Tuesday #007 - Policy Based Management

It's that time of the month again, time for the next round of T-SQL Tuesday posts. This month is being...

Overcoming Your Limits

As I age in years, I realize more and more how blessed I was to attend The Citadel, the Military...

T-SQL Tuesday #7: T-SQL Enhancements in SQL 2008.

In this edition of T-SQL Tuesday, Jorge Segarra (Blog | Twitter) asks us what our favorite new feature of SQL 2008...

T-SQL Tuesday # 07: Walkthrough for Sysprep in SQL Server 2008 R2

T-SQL Tuesday # 07: Walkthrough for Sysprep in SQL Server 2008 R2

This blog entry is participating in T-SQL Tuesday #007, hosted...

TechEd 2010 – BI Keynote Part 2

In the customer demo, a few reports that were built with PowerPivot and Report Builder 3.0, which are helpful to...

TechEd 2010 – BI Keynote – Part 1

The second day’s keynote is by Ted Kummert and focuses on BI.
This keynote is in one of the smaller...

The BI Conference at TechEd

It’s a bad idea. Co-locating the BI conference at TechEd has created a lot of confusion and annoyance. If people...

T-SQL Tuesday #7 - StreamInsight

The 7th T-SQL Tuesday is upon us and you can read about it on SQL Chicken’s blog. He’s hosting this...

Building an Energy Efficient Workstation

Over this past weekend, I decided to build a new general purpose workstation from parts, with a goal of getting...