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I looked at some of the Gemini comments wrote in the week-end. I'm sincerely worried about the possible abuse of this tool, just like everyone over there. However, I think that Microsoft shown Gemini so early (read my previous post about what Microsoft...
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During MS BI Conference 2008 I had a presentation called “Got MDX problems ? MDX Studio to the rescue !”. Given how the theme of self-service BI has been in the center of the conference, I decided to apply some self-service BI to analyze the performance...
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Kevin points you to a funny and fun website that'll give any IT Pro a good laugh....
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School started for my two university-attending sons, and one of them was ordering his books on Amazon from the Marketplace, which is resellers and Amazon partners, selling both new and used. He ordered the books before classes started, expecting to receive...
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Kevin shares some tips on how to predetermine and then track memory usage by SSIS packages....
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Everybody knows local temporary tables have scope only within a connection. Drop the connection and it goes away. The connection is at the server level, not at the database level. People commonly say things like "I'm connected to the database" when they...
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Now that SQL Server 2008 is out and available, Microsoft is hosting a series of roadshow events around the country to highlight the new features of the product. The sessions are four hours, with the first half focused on DBA/Dev topics and the second...
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Ever wonder if Management Studio can be controlled by speech alone? Watch this ScreenCast (1:47) Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!...
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Kevin talks about the little known but very important issue of disk alignment partitioning....
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My first PASS conference was in 2003 in Seattle, and PASS had as its SIG challenge a project. The people who showed up were divided up into teams, and were given a project that had a Dev, a DBA and a BI component, and had to have the project completed...
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The conference is over, and I am back home. Of course unlike some other folks who will spend 11 hours flying over Atlantic to get home, I only spent 11 minutes driving over the Lake Washington. Well, it’s time to reflect on the conference, here are some...
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I’m a little bit disappointed of not getting information about PerformancePoint v2 at the Microsoft BI Conference 2008 . Why to announce Gemini that will be shipped in 2010, and not mention a single word about PerformancePoint v2, which whould be shipped...
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Just a quick note to remind people in the greater Boston area that tomorrow night, Thursday October 9, Jeremy Gaige from Idera Software will be doing a presentation on SQL Server 2008 Performance Studio at the New England SQL Server Users Group. This...
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As virtualization grows stronger in the marketplace, the question of SQL Server performance and support on Virtual Machines appears more often. Bob Ward has a great post here . Enjoy! Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick...
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They have been around forever, but have you really ever implemented Application Roles in SQL Server? For that matter, do you really know what they are and how to use them? In this short tip, I hope to explain just that. First off, we need to talk briefly...
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I have known Denny Cherry for a while now, consider him a friend and was always impressed with his SQL Server knowledge. I asked him to do an interview and as you can see he agreed. Denny, the first time I came across your name was in online forums. Can...
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Greg Low mentioned the new licensing model for Database Edition is his post on the topic a few days ago. What does this mean for you? Here's my take: Now that Database Edition is included ( free as in beer ) with Developer Edition, application developers...
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I just found this useful Add-In for Excel 2007 that checks the compatibility of a spreadsheet for Excel Services publication. I'd like to get feedback if you know other similar tools and/or if you have experience with this one. Share this post: email...
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Hopefully last live blog post for today :) I keep getting constant stream of questions about both project Madison and Gemini. The Ted Kummert keynote where both announcements were made was recorded and can be viewed online – hopefully this will get many...
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After Hydra,Sphinx, Shiloh (32 bit) and Liberty (64 bit), Yukon and Katmai we finally got to codename Kilimanjaro. So Kilimanjaro will be the codename for SQL Server 11 Nothing more to say here :-( [Edit]Apparently there is more to say here because Kilimanjaro...
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