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PASS Summit Day 1 – Keynote, MCM, SQLPASSTV, ServiceBroker, BI Power Hour, MDX, Who Dunnit?

belle — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 11:09:57 +0000

Just a heads up. Today I’ve seen the most impressive BI demos – ever! *jaw drop* Key Note My takeaways: Atlanta, Denali, Crescent The next version of SQL Server (code names Project Atlanta, “Denali”, and “Crescent”) – mostly about teradatas, column stores, and reporting and diagnosing from the cloud – will change the landscape of [...]

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PASS Summit 2010 Day 0 – PreCon – ETL with SSIS

belle — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 08:36:42 +0000

PASS has officially started. For the second year in a row, I am attending Brian Knight’s (blog | twitter) Pre Conference. And as usual, Brian Knight – this time with Patrick LeBlanc (blog | twitter) – have delivered. Hats off to them, for making the pre-con very very informative, yet very entertaining. Notables Here are [...]

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PASS Summit 2010 Day -1 – NoSQL, DBA Myths and Twitter

belle — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 07:57:43 +0000

Yeah I know, my counting system is off. This is my weird counting plan, you just have to bear with me: #passtable { border-collapse:collapse; } #passtable td { border: 1px solid gray; padding:5px; } Day -1 One day before official PASS week. Sunday. Day 0 Pre Conference. Monday. Day 1 Real Day 1. Tuesday. After [...]

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SQLPASS Pre-Conference Lessons Learned – Building a Microsoft Data Warehousing Platform (Brian Knight)

belle — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:12:29 +0000

I just finished the SQLPASS pre-conference from Brian Knight – Building a Microsoft Data Warehousing Platform, and I’m so pumped to do more BI! Reporting, Data Warehousing, Data Mining – all fun stuff. In a gist, this is what we learned today (and it’s a lot of acronyms): - SSIS, ETL - SSAS - Cubes, [...]

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