I recently did a Rick Review of the Day 3 Keynote from the 2008 PASS Community Summit that featured Dr. DeWitt speaking on new technology that ended up in the Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) edition of SQL Server 2008 R2.  I decided to also listen again to the Day 3 Keynote from the 2001 PASS Community Summit.  While I listened intently to ...

Am I stuck in the past?  Not really, but I like to blog about the recordings that I have recently watched.  There are a lot of recordings out there on the PASS website and other places.  Recently I have had the good fortune of exploring some of the neat technology behind the Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) in SQL Server 2008 ...

On January 18th, 2012 at 12pm Eastern Time (which is 5pm GM) Alberto Ferrari will deliver a free online session for the PASS DW/BI Virtual Chapter. This is the official description of the session. Many-to-Many Relationships in DAX The introduction of many to many dimension relationships in SSAS (since 2005) opened new scenarios that can be ...

First of all, I want to congratulate both Kendal van Dyke (@SQLDBA) and James Rowland-Jones (@jrowlandjones) on their recent appointment to the PASS Board of Directors. I have no doubt they will go above and beyond to fulfill their duties and represent the SQL Server community at large. Some others feel that more deserving candidates were ...

I recently got my DVD set from the PASS 2011 Summit and started to look through all of the sessions that I missed.  Wow!  I can't wait to go through all of these!  It will take me a while. Since this is a new year and many people are often greeted with new challenges (like a new server to manage), I decided that this session would ...

Last week the final session evaluations from PASS Summit 2011 have been communicated to speakers and best scores have been made public. My session was not particularly good: it had very good feedback (overall average 4.32) and some average one, mostly because the title (Vertipaq vs OLAP: Change Your Data Modeling Approach) suggested to someone a ...

Introduction I am following the PASS Board Elections 2011 process, blogging about the people and events. You can find a list of all my posts on the topic here. Board Elections Update According to the schedule, Board elections remain open until tomorrow, 20 Dec 2011. Election results are scheduled to be announced 28 Dec 2011. Check out the ...

Introduction I am following the PASS Board Elections 2011 process, blogging about the people and events. You can find a list of all my posts on the topic here. Board Elections According to the schedule, Board elections opened yesterday and remain open until 20 Dec 2011. Check out the PASS Elections 2011 portal for more information. :{>

Introduction I am interviewing 2011 PASS Board Nominee Applicants. As listed on the PASS Board Elections site the applicants are: Rob Farley Geoff Hiten Adam Jorgensen Denise McInerney Sri Sridharan Kendal Van Dyke I'm asking everyone the same questions and blogging the responses in the order received. Adam Jorgensen is ...

  Yesterday a member of the SQL community who I deeply admire sent me a DM on Twitter asking whether I had done a SQLFamily post for Thomas LaRock’s (blog|@SQLRockstar) Meme Monday for November. I replied that I did not, and I regretted not having done so. A subtle DM followed my response: “Get on it, you have all week”. And indeed I must. ...