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Just checked my email this morning and last night I got the email results from taking the 71-452 PRO Designing a Business Intelligence Infrastructure Using Microsoft SQL Server 2008 test and I passed!  Here was the official email from Microsoft Certification program: Congratulations on earning your Microsoft Certified IT Professional: Busines ...

Just got the email results from taking the 71-448 MCTS Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Business Intelligence Development and Maintenance test and I passed! Here was the official email from the Microsoft Certification program: Congratulations on earning your Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: SQL Server 2008, Business Intelligence Development ...

Unfortunately the SQL event coming up this Saturday that I blogged about a few weeks back here has been postponed until the November/December timeframe.  Most likely it will be in early December.  Having this event on a Saturday in MN at this time of the year is tough.  There are not a lot of MN people that are willing to give up a beautiful ...

We did a second round of the Making Better Decisions with Your Data webcast today and it went pretty good.  I stumbled on my thoughts a couple of times, but we got some good discussion going at the end with some questions and that was great.  I definitely wants these types of presentations to be very interactive with input and questions from the ...

Last Friday I co-presented at the local Business Intelligence user group with Joe Beeck and it went really well.  I wasn’t sure how we were going to do on time, but I actually had to kind of skim over my demo at the end.  I was able to show how to setup the option to enable the OPENQUERY capability within SQL Server 2005 with the Surface Area ...

I went and took the beta exam 71-452 for the MCITP Designing a Business Intelligence Infrastructure Using Microsoft SQL Server 2008 (70-452) test this morning.  I guess they decided to change up the format compared to the one for SQL Server 2005 (70-446).  The 2005 test was broken out into case studies where you would read the case study and ...

Take two of the Magenic webinar that Aaron Lowe and I did early this year.  We will be doing the presentation one more time for anyone that missed it the first time.  This is not a technical presentation like the one on October 15 will be.  We will be define Business Intelligence (BI), talk about the BI Maturity Model, Spreadmart vs Data Marts, ...

I will be co-presenting a Magenic webinar with Aaron Lowe one of our SQL Aces out of Chicago on October 15.  We are going to be talking about all of the awesome enhancements that are part of SQL Server 2008 such as Change Data Capture (CDC), Data Profiling, Cache Transform, Tablix, Report Builder 2.0, new SSRS data visualizations, SSAS DMVs, SSAS ...

Next month there will be a one-day event on Saturday, September 20 from 8 to 5.  This is a great opportunity to network, learn, and win prizes.  I will be presenting two sessions - SSIS Performance Tuning and SSAS 2008 Designer Enhancements and DMVs.  Hope to see you there.   Date: September 20Time: 8:00am-5:00pmLocation: New Horizons of ...

The next local BI Special Interest Group (BI-SIG) in MN is coming up on September 12 from 2:30 to 6:30.  I will be co-presenting with Joe Beeck from GfK on  'Spreadmart to Data Mart Conversion'.  Here is the topic description:   Everybody probably has spreadmarts somewhere in their organization.  They start out small and quickly grow and become ...