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• Geoflow? Is that it, Microsoft?

  I didn’t travel to the SQL Pass Business Analytics conference this week but I keenly followed what was going on via the #passbac hashtag on Twitter. Seemingly the big announcement was Geoflow Preview for Excel 2013, an add-in for Excel that visualises Read More... Posted Sunday, April 14, 2013 5:42 PM by jamiet | 52 Comments Filed under: Business Intelligence, Microsoft

• Have SSIS' differing type systems ever caused you problems?

  One thing that has always infuriated me about SSIS is the fact that every package has three different type systems; to give you an idea of what I am talking about consider the following: The SSIS dataflow's type system is made up of types called DT_* Read More... Posted Monday, March 14, 2011 6:46 PM by jamiet | 34 Comments Filed under: Connect, Microsoft, sql server, sql server integration services, ssis

• Microsoft Semantic Engine

  Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference (PDC) is happening next month. I’m not going unfortunately however they do post recordings of all the sessions online so I spent some time today browsing the list of sessions to see if anything took my fancy Read More... Posted Monday, October 19, 2009 9:50 PM by jamiet | 5 Comments Filed under: Microsoft, Semantic Engine, sql server