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So the price is still right - and yes, it's free! Marina my colleague from work sent me a really great link so obviously I had to share it with all of you. In his blog about Microsoft SMS&P Partner Community Blog , Mr. Eric Ligman has published a very extensive list of free Microsoft eBooks on SharePoint, Visual Studio, Windows Phone, Windows 8, Office 365, Office 2010, SQL Server 2012, Azure, and more. The list is very comprehensive and I recommend you go over it and also look at the additional...
PASS are offering 24 Hours of PASS with 24 consecutive technical webcasts - all free and require only registration. The date for you to mark is March 21 st 2012, depending on your time zone. This time around includes closed captions in 15 different languages. Sessions in 24 Hours of PASS are very SQL Server 2012 oriented and very varied in topic with something for everyone, ranging from: Tier-1 BI in the Age of Bees and Elephants - with Denny Lee, SQL Server 2012 Memory Management - with Neil Hambly...
I was in the BI User Group meeting today (and if you're in Israel, why didn't you come too?) and heard something quite exciting. The speaker was Yossi Elkayam from Microsoft Israel and what he mentioned twice was that the release date for SQL Server 2012 Denali is March 2012. He was saying that while stating next month's meeting will preview the new release scheduled for the month after that. He also mentioned that PowerPivot version 2 will be released in proximity to the release of SQL...
I don't know if you've noticed it, but I don't blog all that much lately (I know blog, I know - but that doesn't mean I don't love you!). So as you may gather that if I do blog, it must be something that seems important to me. The SQL Server Team has recently blogged about an initiative they're doing with the Pragmatic Works Foundation . Pragmatic Works Foundation is a non-profit that provides free technical training to veterans, the jobless, and underemployed. In 2012 they're...
Don't know if you're aware of it, but Microsoft just rocked your world! I remember interviewing Mr. Ariel Netz , Product Unit Manager for SSRS. I wanted to hear from him what's planned for Report Builder 1.0 as I didn't feel like Report Builder 3.0 covered all the functionality that was in 1.0. I also wondered what sort of answer we will get for ad - hoc reporting against SSAS in SSRS. Mr. Netz said as much as he could I guess, as things were still under NDA. And now the future of...
Two big resources on SQL Server 2008 R2 and PowerPivot just came out lately. The first is the videos and slides from BI track in TechEd 2010 in New Orleans. You can download all the slides and video recordings on the sessions that you want (and you can use the "list" view for quick and easy access). This one is free for everyone. Another resource that is free, but requires registration, is 24 Hours of PASS . Registration to PASS is free and very recommended as it gives you access to a lot...
This is continued live blogging from the Donald Farmer seminar from the SQL & BI convention in Tel Aviv of Data Integration in Large Organizations. SSIS 2008 Performance and Scalability The importance of measuring to improve performance Understand and measure hardware: How many CPU cores? How much memory? How fast is the I\O subsystem? Understand the potential bottlenecks: Understand the limits of the Source System (usually a bottleneck as it's usually slower than the new system) Gains from...
This is continued live blogging from the Donald Farmer seminar from the SQL & BI convention in Tel Aviv of Data Integration in Large Organizations. SSIS 2008 improvements over SSIS 2005 C# scripting can reference all .net assemblies VSA replaced by VSTA Pipeline Scale Up Tuning SSIS through looking at the buffers on the Data Flow. In SSIS 2005 you would add buffers and break up flows SSIS Tip: Tools > Options > BI Designers > IS Designers: Control Flow Data Connect Data Flow Data Connect...
As you may have read , I've got a ticket to give away for the first SQL & BI convention which is taking place at the end of this month in Tel Aviv. Yes, I'm going to give you a ticket which will grant you a pass to a day of lectures about all the new features in SQL Server 2008 R2. The lectures in the convention are aimed at helping you learn of the new features and how they can help you in your day to day work. The ticket to a day at the convention is worth 900 shekels - but for the...
וגם אם לא - הפוסט הזה בשבילכם. מיקרוסופט ישראל מארגנת אירוע לבלוגרים מקהילת הבלוגרים שלה וגם לאנשים שמתעניינים בפתיחת בלוג. עכשיו, גם אם אתם יודעים את זה, וגם אם לא, צריך להיות לכם בלוג. למה? או - על זה בדיוק ידברו בכנס :) יהיו גם טיפים על איך לשדרג את הבלוג שלכם ואיך לקדם אותו. אני חושבת שלכל הפחות, זו הזדמנות מצוינת להכיר אנשים חדשים ולהיפתח לרעיון שיכול לסייע לכם. בקיצור, אני מצפה לראות אתכם שם - תגידו שאלה שלחה אתכם!
Well I guess the rumors had it right, because the first day of PASS Europe , Microsoft announced the release to manufacturing of SQL Server 2008 R2 . The main attraction, for me at least, will be PowerPivot (and DAX) and Report Builder 3.0 (with its shared datasets, maps and new calculations). Now, if you have a one track mind like me, first thing you would look for is SQL Server 2008 R2 Express editions, or in plain English - the free versions! Well, if you live in the US, then look no further my...
I knew from Russell Christopher's blog that Microsoft All UP BI Demo version 9.2 was released to partners , but as I'm not a registered partner, that didn't help me much... So I was delighted to discover today from the RDA blog that "Microsoft has configured a remote server for general public to get hands on experience with this new BI version 9.2 solution" - so yes, you can take that baby off for a spin! You need to register to the site first, run a .exe to enable the ActiveX...
Whether you're doing demos, trying different aspects of applications or just looking for something new, you may want to have a broad and free selection of data to choose from. This post is here to help you out on that. I've collected a number of free data source for you to use: From the PowerPivot blog: Data on the District of Columbia http://ogdisdk.cloudapp.net/DataCatalog.aspx From Andrew Fryer 's blog: Data from the UK Government: http://data.gov.uk/data/ Datasets for neighborhoods...
Microsoft just announced SQL Server 2008 R2 release date and it’s May 2010 – not too far ahead… SQL Server 2008 R2 along with SharePoint 2010, Excel 2010, PowerPivot and Report Builder 3.0 are all strengthening Microsoft’s hold in the BI Market, covering more and more ground in aspects of Self Service BI and empowering the users. SQL Server 2008 R2 November CTP is still available for download and the development team is still interested in your feedback about it. Start the countdown…
I'm developing a report model in Report Builder 1.0 at the moment. I felt like it was finished and started testing the model with some sample reports I knew my client needed. And then I got the oddest thing… I would get a report saying something like: Gender Marital Status Amount of Sales NA NA 865 Male Single 30 Female Single 36 NA was what I chose to put in case I was using referential integrity. I was looking at the sales table and the employees table and if I found a sale which didn't...
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