Richard Hundhausen: The DBAgilist

SQL Server 2008 Report Builder Available

Tales from the Doghouse - SQLblog — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 21:51:12 GMT

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services Report Builder 2.0 delivers an intuitive, Office-like report authoring environment enabling business and power users to leverage their experience with Microsoft Office 2007 products. Microsoft SQL Server 2008...(read more)

Boise SQL Server User Group Presentation

Tales from the Doghouse - SQLblog — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 22:24:13 GMT

Thanks to those who attended the second meeting of the Boise SQL Server User Group . We had a good turnout of around 30 people and I hope everyone enjoyed my presentation of SQL Server 2008 Integration Services (SSIS). I tried to balance the presentation...(read more)

Boise SQL Server User Group

Tales from the Doghouse - SQLblog — Thu, 01 May 2008 16:45:07 GMT

The newly formed Boise SQL Server User Group kicks off its first meeting with Kalen Delaney on June 25, 2008. I'm happy to see a Microsoft SQL Server user group in Boise. It will fit nicely with the other development and SharePoint groups in town. For...(read more)

Installing Team Edition(s) on your Team Foundation Build server

Tales from the Doghouse - SQLblog — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:29:07 GMT

It's generally known that if you want to run any tests, code analysis, or database project build/deployment that you need to install one or more Team Edition of VSTS on your build server. What's not so well known are the licensing ramifications around...(read more)

Photos from the Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server 2008, and Windows Server 2008 Launch in LA

Tales from the Doghouse - SQLblog — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:55:44 GMT

Back home now, and I have a moment to get the photos downloaded from my camera and uploaded to my blog. Next time I'll take my SD card reader with me. As you can see, registration was quite busy. I heard that there were 4000 people there, but didn't count...(read more)

Live from the VS/SQL/Windows 2008 launch

Tales from the Doghouse - SQLblog — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:49:38 GMT

In this, my first post of (hopefully) several today, I'm sitting in the keynote session (next to Douglas McDowell ), listening to Tom Brokaw warm up the audience. What a nice surprise. It definitely stopped all the geeks in their tracks, to listen to...(read more)

Remembering Jim Gray and a Tribute

Tales from the Doghouse - SQLblog — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:01:58 GMT

Time flies. It's been a year since Dr. Gray, a Microsoft research fellow and Turing Award-winner, went missing while sailing off San Francisco. A year ago, at Boise Code Camp 2.0, I hosted a session on finding Jim Gray , using Amazon's Mechanical Turk....(read more)

Adding TFPT.exe to your PATH

Tales from the Doghouse - SQLblog — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 22:01:11 GMT

I know. I know. This doesn't sound like a very interesting post, but it saved me time, and hopefully it can save you some too. When you install Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft creates a "Visual Studio 2008 Command Prompt" shortcut, under that program group....(read more)

SQL Server 2008 November CTP Available

Tales from the Doghouse - SQLblog — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:03:00 GMT

I've been so involved with the VSTS RTM yesterday, that I almost didn't notice this one. Click here to download the latest SQL Server 2008 Community Technology Preview (CTP) and try out the latest features of SQL Server 2008....(read more)

US Tech-Ed 2008 To Be Two Conferences

Tales from the Doghouse - SQLblog — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:36:48 GMT

It seems that the US Tech-Ed is following Europe's lead, by breaking up the one large conference into two: one for developers and one for IT professionals. June 3-6, 2008 - Developers (developers, solution architects, designers, and testers) June 10-13,...(read more)

Creating and Customizing TFS Reports

Tales from the Doghouse - SQLblog — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 18:05:59 GMT

I just came across this download at Microsoft. It provides an introduction to the concepts and step by step instructions for creating and customizing TFS reports. The zip file contains instructional PDF documents as well as several sample reports....(read more)

Microsoft Positioned in the leader quadrant in Gartner’s latest Magic Quadrant for Data Warehouse DBMS, 2007

Tales from the Doghouse - SQLblog — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:03:36 GMT

Way to go Microsoft, and SQL Server 2005! For the first time in the report’s history, Microsoft is positioned in the Leader quadrant in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Data Warehouse DBMS. The analysts say that SQL Server 2005 is expected to grow in the...(read more)

TFS Operations Guidance

Tales from the Doghouse - SQLblog — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:46:42 GMT

Thanks to the Team System Rangers (an elite squad of TFS experts inside Microsoft) for putting together this document, which serves as a single point of entry into the world of TFS Operations as well as Microsoft's recommended operational best practices....(read more)

VSTS Web Access Power Tool - CTP released

Tales from the Doghouse - SQLblog — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 15:12:57 GMT

Microsoft has released a new version of VSTS Web Access Power tool. This release is a Community Technology Preview (CTP) of what will ultimately be the 2008 version of the VSTS Web Access Power Tool. Built against the TFS 2008 object model - In previous...(read more)

Code that Writes Code (or TSQL that writes ASP.NET)

Tales from the Doghouse - SQLblog — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 21:02:47 GMT

Call it a code generator, software factory, or just a clever script. If you can write code that writes code - you win, even if just a small victory for humans in this contest we call software development. For example, I've been working on an ASP.NET application...(read more)