A little while ago the team that work on the BIDS Helper project discovered something interesting about codeplex. Codeplex Wiki pages have the facility to allow people to add comments, but unlike all the other places where people can interact with a codeplex project, for some reason wiki pages are not included in the projects RSS feed. So if you ...

With SQL Server 2008 released, I was thinking back of earlier versions of SQL Server. And I decided to compare them to the MS operating systems. Not a point-in-time comparsion, like ''SQL Server version x was released year a, which was the same year that OS y was released.''. I'm thinking more of the feel you have for the product. Would would ...

I got an email from the MVP program this morning saying that I have received the MVP award for another year. And congratulations goes out to Greg Galloway on being awarded as an MVP. Greg and I have work with on BIDSHelper and the Analysis Services Stored Procedure project together and he is one smart cookie :) 

My employer, James & Monroe are currently looking for people with strong skills in the Microsoft BI technologies. We are specifically looking for people to work at the Senior Consultant level that have experience with the SQL Server 2005 BI technologies in addition to experience with .Net programming. There is the likelihood of working with ...

Its been a while since my last post. No special reason, just a combination of lot of work and I didn't feel I had something pressing to say... This topic is basically on how the client app communicates with SQL Server. Not the API level (like ADO or ODBC), or the packet level (TDS), but in between. Basicaly we're talking IPC, Inter Process ...

I just learned that we have some new BI MVPs that were awarded recently On the SSAS front Vidas Matelis (of www.ssas-info.com fame) has received a SQL Server MVP award. And two of my fellow countrymen and PerformancePoint specialists Adrian Downes and Nick Barclay have both been awarded too.

How come I've missed this? I don't know, but I'm writing this blog post so to bookmark this site. You'll find a handful of scripts, mainly using Dynamic Management Views and Functions, to monitor various aspects of SQL Server. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/scripts/sql/sql2005/default.mspx?mfr=true Share this post: email it! | ...

I asked for your oppinions about a new Report Designer in one of my earlier posts in this blog. I wanted to thank everyone for taking the time to offer feedback and for those of you who even filed a bug or two. As you've probably already guessed from the title, our ultimate decision was to stick with Business Intellegence Developers Studio for ...

Several questions have come up lately regarding whether SQL Server Express is an appropriate product to be used in a hosting environment.  Here are the answers:   ·         User Instances (also known as RANU) available with SQL Server Express Edition, are NOT RECOMMENDED for hosting ...

I've gotten a number of questions recently asking how SQL Express uses resources during idle time, and how that behavior impacts the way SQL Express behaves ''on first connection'' after being idle for a period of time. While many of these questions have been related to web hosting, the behavior is a general behavior for SQL Express, so I'll ...