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Had a great question last week at the MNPASS SQL Server User Group in regards to using the Analysis Services Deployment Wizard and I just wanted to post the follow-up. I have read about the wizard, but actually have never used it (but you need to know...
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I took the beta exam 71-448 for the MCTS Microsoft SQL Server 2008 – Business Intelligence Development and Maintenance (70-448). I would definitely check out the prep guide prior to going into the test to prepare yourself for what will be on the test...
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SQL Server 2008 includes Dimension Designer Enhancements, new attribute relationships designer, and additional Best Practice Alerts:) The Dimension Wizard within BIDS 2008 (VS 2008) for Analysis Service Projects has been simplified and introduces a new...
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I did a recent talk on Custom Controls to the local user group in Chicago and I thought I would re-iterate those points here. The silverlight control model is very important to the collaboration efforts between designers and developers. First lets understand...
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Some of my colleagues at Magenic, Justin Chase and Rocky Lhotka , have developed a very nifty framework for unit testing Silverlight apps - UnitDriven . In particular, it is optimized for testing asynchronous code in Silverlight, which is virtually impossible...
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Monday July 28th I will be sharing the podium with my colleague and friend Sergey Barskiy to give a talk about SQL Server 2008 functionality for our .NET developer brethren. It should be a great time, details of the event can be found on the ADNUG...
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Check out the details here - http://blogs.msdn.com/gerryo/archive/2008/07/01/sql-server-beta-exams-extended-open-invitation.aspx Only good through the end of July, so try and register before it is completely booked. SQL Server 2008 DBA 71-432 and SQL...
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Tomorrow, July 15, from 2 to 4 p.m. I will be participating in a local SQL Server User Group ‘Ask the Experts’ panel discussion. I look forward to discussion SQL Server and MS BI with everyone and hearing everyone’s questions. It should be a very enjoyable...
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I got the email tonight from my next speaking engagement and got quite a laugh...one missing letter has left me as "Whiney". Maybe Doug is trying to tell me something?...
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Aaron and I did our webinar last month and it went fairly well. I don’t quite have the speaker phone deal worked out yet and talking to a monitor can be a little tough, but we did it. I would have much rather been able to see everyone face-to-face, but...
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I read Jamie Thomson’s blog here this afternoon and read the article on Zoomix’s site and Microsoft is adding more its MDM arsenal. Zoomix will add more MDM capabilities and add some great data quality portions. Is this more of a move for the MDM portion...
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Last month Magenic held its first ever MTC Summit in Chicago. I helped check people in and I was able to watch some of the great presentations by Jay Schmelzer, Rocky Lohtka , Whitney Weaver , Jason Bock, Kirstin Juhl, Michael Cummings, and Anthony Handley....
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As I mentioned in my previous blog post, there is a "bug" in the current version of Powershell with the Transcript. For "external" commands, (that is programs that aren't Powershell commands) the transcript will log the input but...
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I've been using Powershell for deploy scripts from TFS builds at my current gig. I COULD have used MSBuild, but I chose Powershell for a number of reasons (which I'll detail in a future article on the subject). One important feature (particularly...
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Share this post : Resource Governor enables you to manage SQL Server workload and resources by specifying limits on resource consumption by incoming requests. In an environment where multiple distinct workloads are present on the same server, Resource...
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If you like reading whitepapers have I got the find for you. The Data Platform Insider has seven articles across the 2008 product for your reading pleasure. You can feel the buzz cranking up as we get closer to RTM. These are always...
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Mary-Jo Foley is reporting an announcement of August as the RTM date for the hotly awaited release. Let the online chatter begin......
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Today will be the first meeting of the Chicago Designers & Developers User Group. I have the honor of speaking at the first meeting on Silverlight 2's control model. My goal of this presentation is to give the group a primer to user controls,...
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We're back talking SQL Server 2008, hopefully with announcements of RTM around the corner. Today I want to cover one of the great new features in the upcoming release of SQL Server - data compression. Data compression allows you to store your...
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It's not to late to register and attend the inaugural meeting of the Chicago Designers & Developers User Group, Wednesday, July 9, 2008 from 6:30pm to 9:00pm at the Illinois Information Technology Association (ITA), 200 S. Wacker Drive, 15th Floor,.....
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Found very interesting link that has the history of SQL http://insidesqlserver.com/companion/History%20of%20SQL%20Server.pdf Have fun!...
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I usually blog on whatever it is I have been interested in at that specific moment or whatever it is I have been playing with. For the most part I have spent my time varied on 2 separate non related fields both interesting in their own way but nothing...
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Video: What the F# In this video from TechEd Online, recorded at Teched last month, Amanda Laucher (aka Pandamonial) and I talk about what F# is, why you should care, and why functional programming matters. In an amazing coincidence, Amanda happened to...
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What is SPaDevToolkit? SPaDevToolkit is short for S hare P oint A pplication Dev elopment Toolkit . It is an open source project created by yours truly and available on CodePlex . The project is a collection of libraries, tools, Visual Studio templates,...
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This post outlines my experience with ModalDialog Extender in the AJAX control toolkit. I had some specific needs arise that required me to trigger a modalDialog from a FormView, as well as use the ModalDialog to confirm the details of a transaction....
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