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• Officially a SQL Server MVP!

  This afternoon I got the long awaited email that I have been patiently waiting for…”Congratulations 2010 Microsoft MVP!” I was so thrilled that I had no idea what to do. Should I scream? Give someone a high five? Do a cartwheel? Maybe a flip? I hopped Read More... Posted Thursday, July 01, 2010 9:49 PM from Dan English's BI Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: SQL Server

• A Simple Pivot Viewer Example

  With all the current fuss about PowerPivot it is easy to overlook one of the other hot technologies coming our way, Pivot Viewer.  The Pivot Viewer is a Silverlight data visualization tool for rendering large amounts of data in a more meaningful Read More... Posted Monday, June 28, 2010 10:02 AM from The W Blog | 1 Comments Filed under: SQL Server, Silverlight

• PASSMN May 2010 Follow-up

  This past month I presented at our local Minnesota SQL Server User Group. I was a tad bit exhausted from presenting at TechFuse 2010 and the SQL Server 2008 R2 launch event here in Minneapolis earlier in the month. It was tough when each presentation Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 02, 2010 6:01 AM from Dan English's BI Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: SQL Server

• SQL Server 2008 R2 MN Launch Follow-up

  Last week PASS and Microsoft had one of its five major launch events in Minneapolis. I recall last time we had the major launch here was back in 2008 on April 1, so I felt a little better about the date for this one. The reason that I was so excited for Read More... Posted Thursday, May 20, 2010 5:14 AM from Dan English's BI Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: SQL Server

• Well That Is No Good

  I have been following a Connect item about Visual Studio 2010 and the lack of support for BI project types. This recent comment from Jeff Bernhardt, Product Unit Manager for SSIS caught my eye today (emphasis mine): First of all, thank you to those customers Read More... Posted Friday, May 14, 2010 10:05 AM from The W Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: SQL Server

• SQL Server 2008 R2 Review

  Bloomberg has a review of SQL Server 2008 R2 that can provide a great resource to anyone trying to get an idea of what is included in the new release or sell it as an upgrade within their organization. Read More... Posted Thursday, May 13, 2010 12:49 PM from The W Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: SQL Server

• SQLSaturday 41 - Master Data Services

  Slide deck from today's session below. Thanks for the great interaction! SQLSaturday_MDS.pptx (1.47 mb) Read More... Posted Saturday, April 24, 2010 2:45 PM from The W Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: SQL Server, User Groups

• SQL Saturday 41 - Dynamic Management Views

  Thanks to everyone that came to my session on DVMs. You guys asked some great questions! Slides and code samples attached below. SQLSaturday_Apr24_DMV.zip (1.29 mb) Read More... Posted Saturday, April 24, 2010 2:40 PM from The W Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: SQL Server, User Groups

• PASSMN April Meeting Follow-up

  Another great turn out at this past week’s PASSMN monthly meeting, PASSMN April 20, 2010 Monthly Meeting . We had 76 people in attendance and another 8 or 10 online through Live Meeting. This month’s presentations were about Visual Studio 2010 database Read More... Posted Saturday, April 24, 2010 8:39 AM from Dan English's BI Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: SQL Server

• SQL Server 2008 R2 RTM Evaluation Install

  SQL Server 2008 R2 has gone RTM and currently the only way to get a copy is to download and install the 180-day evaluation copy. You can do so by going to the SQL Server 2008 R2 downloads . If you still see a download for the November CTP then keep looking, Read More... Posted Friday, April 23, 2010 6:23 AM from Dan English's BI Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: SQL Server

• Getting Started with PowerPivot

  Last week I took a stab at creating my first PowerPivot spreadsheet, and I wanted to document the steps.  Maybe this post will help someone, but it will help me remember, that is for sure! Before you get started, you will need to download all the Read More... Posted Sunday, March 14, 2010 2:47 PM from Sergey Barskiy's Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: SQL Server, Data, Reporting

• Partition Level Locking SQL CAT Post

  A little late with this one but the SQL CAT team has a great blog post about partition lock escalation in SQL Server 2008.  The post describes the introduction of table level lock escalation control made available via TSQL syntax.  In prior Read More... Posted Thursday, March 11, 2010 11:22 AM from The W Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: SQL Server, Transact SQL

• Silverlight 4 + COM + SQL Server = Cool!

  Today is the day to talk about COM possibilities in Silverlight 4.  One would question the titles of my post.  COM and Cool in the same sentence?  Let me proof this title to you. First, let me take a closer look at COM.  In order to Read More... Posted Saturday, February 13, 2010 4:53 PM from Sergey Barskiy's Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: SQL Server, Silverlight, Data

• Talk at GGMUG

  As always I had fun presenting at Gwinnett Georgia Microsoft Users Group on Thursday.  The subject of my talk was “Getting started with SQL Azure”.  I documented all the steps in this blog post.  There are also useful links that I mentioned Read More... Posted Saturday, January 16, 2010 6:57 PM from Sergey Barskiy's Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: SQL Server, Data, Azure

• FIX: Failed to Generate a User Instance …

  I generate my databases on the fly while using Active Record . Every time I start a new project and fire up the app to auto-gen the SQL Express DB I get this error: Failed to generate a user instance of SQL Server due to failure in retrieving the user's Read More... Posted Sunday, January 10, 2010 12:44 PM from this.Reflect(); | 0 Comments Filed under: SQL Server, Alt.Net