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Server Migration 5 Aug 2013 | 06:08 pm
I’m currently migrating the site to a new hosting provider, so any gremlins spotted over the next day or so can probably be attributed to this. I’d love to say that this is the cause of the lack of p...
Microsoft announces Power BI for Office 365 8 Jul 2013 | 09:27 pm
After launching a number of really neat self-service business intelligence plugins and components over the past couple of years, Microsoft has finally announced their complete self-service BI package:...
5 Reasons why PowerView can’t replace Reporting Services 2 Jul 2013 | 10:00 pm
The other week I wrote a post discussing how PowerView was the future of SQL Server Reporting Services, and the killer features that made it a compelling choice. Despite the numerous positive advance...
6 Reasons why PowerView is the Future of Reporting Services 23 Jun 2013 | 02:23 am
Since its introduction with SQL Server 2012, PowerView has started to become the familiar face of Microsoft’s self service business intelligence offering. Its inclusion in Excel 2013 has only reinfor...
SQL Server Management Studio standalone download 20 Jun 2013 | 05:01 pm
Something I see online all the time, is people trying to find a standalone download for SQL Server Management Studio. Until recently, it seems, Microsoft certainly didn’t make it easy to just install...
SQL Saturday 202 in Edinburgh 31 May 2013 | 06:35 pm
Last year I had the fantastic opportunity to attend SQL Saturday #105 over in Dublin on the company dime. A fantastic, free training event, SQL Saturday brings together a number of industry leaders a...
GeoFlow brings 3D geographical visualisation to Excel 2013 23 Apr 2013 | 11:56 pm
The other week, Microsoft announced GeoFlow for Excel 2013 at the SQL PASS Business Analytics conference in Chicago. While it’s not exactly new, it is at least, a pretty impressive looking addition t...
Installing SQL Server Data Tools – Business Intelligence for Visual Studio 2012 13 Mar 2013 | 02:00 pm
As if renaming the accurately titled Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS) to the rather ambiguous SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) wasn’t bad enough, in December, Microsoft’s latest SSDT releas...
Is Hadoop the right tool for the job? 9 Mar 2013 | 01:55 pm
I recently posted some thoughts regarding Microsoft’s Windows-compatible Hadoop implementation, HDInsight. I was investigating it for a project that I figured would benefit from a distributed process...
Hands-on with Hadoop and HDInsight 7 Mar 2013 | 03:00 pm
Hadoop. Everyone and their dog is talking about it. That and “Big Data”. There was an excellent post on Brent Ozar’s DBA Reactions Tumblr blog recently that encapsulated it perfectly, titled “When ...
