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It’s time to spring clean the blog as I have realised that a few of my older posts have been overtaken by events and could be misleading if they were acted upon now. For example: SQL Server 2008 is now supported on VMWare and other virtualisation platforms
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The idea of letting users design their own BI fills many experts with equal dread and delight. On the one hand users know exactly what they want and the IT professional is freed from the drudgery of endlessly tinkering with content. On the other
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Most IT Professionals like to use the latest (stable) version of a product, so what’s holding up your adoption of SQL Server 2008? Hardware. If you are moving from SQL Server 2000 to 2008 that’s probably going to mean a new server as you’ll probably want
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When it comes to dashboards, Microsoft’s business intelligence stack seems to have some overlap in it, so how can you decide what to use when? Dashboards are an overused term, so what I am talking about here is the ability to provide an interactive instrument
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One of the worst reporting headaches is producing output for the finance department. The reports need to meet strict standards, be penny perfect, and the end user always wants the report to be in excel. With reporting services in SQL
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Excel is the number one business intelligence tool; It fronts Hyperion, Cognos Financial Planning, and of course SQL Server Analysis Services and Performance Point Server Planning. In Office 2007 there is now excel services so that information workers
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Nearly everything Microsoft brings out these days has a SQL Server back-end, except Exchange as Eileen will tell you. I got asked about cubes in Project Enterprise server recently and managed to resolve an issue with the data not being updated due to
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Forums (fora for Latin geeks) date back to well before Microsoft and even Frankie Howerd. TechNet has a raft of forums on almost every Microsoft technology as it affects IT professionals where you can get and give help. Both MVP's and Microsoft
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I am easily confused and Performance Point is confusing. Even finding where the the resources are for using it can be tricky. TechNet has got a site with lots of online help on maintaining Performance Point while MSDN has a site dedicated
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I am ploughing through my inbox now I am not on the road anymore, and I have picked up quite a lot of flak around the costs of Performance Point. I have passed specific queries on to the licensing guys, but the sort of thing I was getting both on-line
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Sorry about the catchy title, but I wanted to clarify why the planning component of Performance Point Server in turn depends on SQL Server Enterprise edition. I pointed out in my recent TechNet presentations that Performance Point doesn't make use of
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I did a post a couple of months ago on what makes a successful BI project which includes the use of Microsoft Office Performance Point Server. To summarise: Business sponsorship form the board Recognition of business need Partnership between business
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If you call your flagship business intelligence product Performance Point then it might be a good idea to make sure it performs! Because the product is essentially a suite of front end applications (which is why it's under the office umbrella) it is only
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As many of you know Whitehaven has gone digital today amongst quite a lot of confusion. I must admit I am struggling to to see the point of staying analog and quite what the fuss is about given that a freeview box costs as little as £20. The story around
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In SQL server the Cast and Convert functions change one type of data to another. A pod cast is the art of converting knowledge into sounds so that's the tenuous link for this post. Pod casting is not something I have ever tried, but the security expert
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