Apr23
I'd almost mark this to a new category titled: "Trivia".
At least, that's what it feels like – particularly when it came to finding out how to do this.
Scenario: Client has a financial package running on an AS/400, IBM OS v5 r4, which has DB2 for the iSeries installed. We are building a lightweight application to do some gap filling on this package so some basic reporting can be d...
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Thursday, 23 Apr 2009 02:10.
Apr22
One nice resource for training, and recently discovered in my case, is JumpstartTV, a division of Fourdeuce, Inc, which in turn is owned by End To End Training, a provider of technical training. Fourdeuce has some recognizable owners in the SQL Server world: Andy Warren, Brian Knight and Steve Jones (if you don't know them, their blogs are behind the links on their names, get to know them, t...
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Wednesday, 22 Apr 2009 02:09.
Apr21
Join the Central Texas BI User Group on LinkedIn group to get announcements, start a discussion, share an article, etc.
Here is the URL for the group: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1912918.
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Tuesday, 21 Apr 2009 02:09.
Apr21
For anyone unfamiliar with the TPC (Transaction Processing Performance Council), they are an independent non-profit with the goal of creating benchmarks for database systems that are verifiable and reportable to the industry.
It is worth taking a look at their site and some of the research; if nothing else, you may get some ideas on reference hardware for your next implementation or use th...
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Tuesday, 21 Apr 2009 02:07.
Apr17
Catapult Systems will be working with Microsoft to sponsor the first Central Texas Business Intelligence User Group.
The Central Texas BI User Group's objectives are to:
Build community around BI and related technologies
Cross-pollinate information and ideas on BI
Provide a forum for companies to share innovative programs and solutions based on and related to BI
Dates:
Wednes...
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Friday, 17 Apr 2009 02:07.
Apr10
Unfortunately, Microsoft has cancelled this year's BI conference in Seattle, WA. More on the reasons at the official Microsoft BI Blog.
Microsoft will cover BI technology and features at other conferences this year such as TechEd, the World Wide Partner conference, the SharePoint conference and SQL Server PASS.
Currently, the Microsoft BI conference will be a biannual event, making the next...
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Friday, 10 Apr 2009 02:06.
Apr10
I made a post over a week ago talking about extending the Data Profiling task and in there I just cover the some of the basics on my methods for extending it and what goals I had in mind.
It actually sparked a few e-mails and so, due to interest, I am going to graduate my sloppy proof-of-concept code into a workable project. To put further rigor and transparency, I am going to put this pro...
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Friday, 10 Apr 2009 02:05.
Apr6
Before anyone jumps off a bridge, it is not as bad as the headline sounds; stay calm, step down from the ledge and we can work this out.
Background: I got tired of running PerformancePoint in a VPC all of the time and I decided it was time to install it locally. I am running Server 2008 after all with a full blown install of SQL 2008, so I figured adding SharePoint and PerformancePoint wou...
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Monday, 6 Apr 2009 02:04.