September 2005 - Posts

• SQL 2005 Data Mining articles and books

  This useful post of Karen Watterson has a link to the first chapter of the upcoming book Data Mining with SQL Server 2005 by ZhaoHui Tang and Jamie MacLennan. In the same post there are other useful links to articles and video about Data Mining on SQL Read More... Posted Sunday, September 25, 2005 4:20 PM by Marco Russo (SQLBI) | 0 Comments

• Excel 12 BI revealed

  I've just attended the Excel 12 BI session held by Amir Netz and Allan Folting. This is the first time that Excel 12 BI functionality are shown to the public. My expectations seems to be satisfied, even if I really want to put my hands on a Beta, but Read More... Posted Friday, September 16, 2005 2:20 PM by Marco Russo (SQLBI) | 0 Comments

• Excel 12 and SharePoint v3

  I've seen Excel 12 and SharePoint v3 integrated with SQL Server 2005 Report Builder and Analysis Services here at PDC: we've seen very little, but enough to understand that this combination is what can really leverage on SQL 2005 BI capabilities. Tomorrow Read More... Posted Thursday, September 15, 2005 2:34 PM by Marco Russo (SQLBI) | 0 Comments

• SSIS Migration Wizard as Shared Source: yes, please!

  I'm sitting in DAT411 session room and I've just heared that Microsoft is considering to release SSIS Migration Wizard as shared source: please do it and do it now! :-) I've a lot of DTS packages that could be really better migrated if only I could modify Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 14, 2005 6:29 PM by Marco Russo (SQLBI) | 0 Comments

• Range operation with SSAS2005

  Today, while digging into time intelligence wizard-generated scripting, I discovered that Analysis Services 2005 has a new syntax for range operations that give us more flexiblity. You can define a range of members like "all members from X to the end" Read More... Posted Saturday, September 10, 2005 1:50 AM by Marco Russo (SQLBI) | 0 Comments