Tag Archives: Design
SQL BI Professionals – Let your voice be heard!
As recently announced by T.K. Anand on the Analysis Services and PowerPivot, the SQL BI development team are looking for your thoughts and opinions on the tools and capabilities for … Continue reading
SQLPASS: Hadoop and BI are better together–we’ll show you how!
This is going to be yet another exciting SQLPASS Summit! Lots of great sessions, focus groups, and craziness – definitely one of the funner times of the job! Over the … Continue reading
A funky way to do Hive and Hadoop … on Azure
. Funny how you can say something in your head and it sounds fine – Doctor Who (Matt Smith in Amy’s Choice) . Recently I had posted the wiki article: … Continue reading
The potential of Big Data
To better understand the excitement around Big Data, there is an informative report by McKinsey Global Institute – Big data: The next frontier for innovation, competition, and productivity. I encourage … Continue reading
Netflix rocks–from great entertainment to showcasing how to develop for the Cloud
. . A partial screenshot of my Netflix Top 10 selections – which of course includes Doctor Who and Stargate Universe. . . . . As a subscriber, I’m definitely … Continue reading
At TechReady and want a chance to get a PowerPivot Technical Diagram AND win a PowerPivot book?
Are you coming to TechReady and interested in getting yourself a PowerPivot Technical Diagram: PowerPivot Client/Server Architecture? Well, make sure to come to Dave Wickert and my session for a … Continue reading
Win a signed PowerPivot Architecture Technical Diagram at TechEd NA 2010
There are many reasons to go to TechEd North America 2010 in New Orleans this year. After all, it is THE event for developers and IT Professionals. And if you … Continue reading
Hierarchies, Oh Hierarchies…where are thou? (in PowerPivot)
I had a great question from a customer concerning something weird happening with PowerPivot relationships. In this example, we have two tables such as city and state. State Mapping Table … Continue reading
Ramblings about missing time … and #PowerPivot sneak peek!
Wow, I just checked and its been more than a month since I did my last blog post! So for starters, apologies for the lack of cool PowerPivot stuff on … Continue reading
Why you may want to use RBS for your #PowerPivot for #SharePoint Farm
By Denny Lee, Ed Campbell Introducing RBS So what is RBS and why would I want to use it in order to help my PowerPivot for SharePoint farm? Well, RBS … Continue reading
Accelerating Microsoft adCenter with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services
How Microsoft adCenter takes advantage of groundbreaking performance and scalability enhancements and innovative design tools available with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services For more information, please refer to … Continue reading
Designing and Tuning for Performance your SSIS packages in the Enterprise (SQL Video Series)
For all of those whom are interested in SSIS performance, we have posted a new SQL video series about how to design and tune your SSIS packages for performance. Measuring … Continue reading
