Geeky Girl

Information about Microsoft SharePoint Server, SQL Server 2012, Business Intelligence and Office.

Books online for Power BI

The Microsoft Office website now has some books online resources for Power BI. Power BI Getting...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 08/20/2013

Business Intelligence Sales Specialist Training

On Monday 15th April in Thames Valley Park, we are running another Sales Specialist Training day for...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 04/10/2013

And now for something completely different

Some of you may know that I've written a couple of books. The first, Child of the Hive, is a sci-fi...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 01/03/2013

SharePoint 2013 Snippet: SharePoint Designer Workflows

Happy New Year! Picking up where I left off last year, I’m going to talk about another change...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 01/02/2013

SharePoint 2013 Snippet: Content Search Web Part

The Content Search Web Part is a new web part in SharePoint 2013 that lets you bring together data...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 12/19/2012

SharePoint 2013 Snippet: Machine Translation Services

SharePoint 2013 brings in Machine Translation Services, which provides automatic content translation...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 12/18/2012

SharePoint 2013 Snippet: User License Enforcement

In MOSS 2007 and SharePoint Server 2010, it’s technically possible to set up an environment so...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 12/14/2012

SharePoint 2013 Snippets: Access Services

Access Services is an interesting topic in the 2013 context. When this was described to me, my first...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 12/13/2012

SharePoint 2013 Snippets: Shredded Storage

I’ve been spending this week learning about SharePoint 2013 on the Ignite training. Partly in...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 12/13/2012

SharePoint on Azure whitepaper

I've touched on this topic before but it's worth another mention because there's been a recent white...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 09/25/2012

Business Intelligence Practice Accelerator

Starting on the 3rd September, Microsoft are running a Business Intelligence Practice Accelerator....

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 08/28/2012

PASS SQLRally Nordic 2012

Kamal Hathi, Microsoft Director of SQL Server Business Intelligence, will be delivering the keynote...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 08/23/2012

Data Quality in SQL Server 2012 Part 5: Master Data Services Excel Add-In

In the previous post in this series (sorry for the delay), I talked about the Client for DQS. It...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 08/16/2012

SharePoint Conference 2012 Giveaway

A company called Share Squared are running a competition to win a full conference pass to the...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 08/16/2012

SharePoint on Azure

The PointBeyond blog recently posted an interesting piece on running SharePoint on Azure. This piece...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 07/11/2012

PowerPivot: Sort by column

Sometimes there are measures which have an intrinsic order to them, such as days of the week or...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 06/12/2012

DQS: Create a New Knowledge Base

[View:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXaXN5JHvGw] This is the first video I've done on Data Quality...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 05/11/2012

Data Quality in SQL Server 2012 Part 4: Data Quality Services Client

Data Quality Services, introduced in the previous blog post, includes two main components: DQS...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 04/05/2012

Data Quality in SQL Server 2012 Part 3: Introducing Data Quality Services

The previous two blog posts have been focusing on Master Data Services. Given the title of this...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 03/28/2012

Data Quality in SQL Server 2012 Part 2: Introducing Master Data Services

In the previous blog post, I introduced the concept of Master Data Management as a methodology to...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 03/27/2012

Data Quality in SQL Server 2012 Part 1: Introducing Master Data Management

Data quality is important and data quality mistakes can be expensive. Imagine a situation where a...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 03/26/2012

Displaying the month in an InfoPath form

Someone asked this question on a discussion list and I thought the answer was one that others might...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 03/01/2012

SQL Server 2012 Webcasts

Myself and colleagues (mostly Sam Solieman, but also will Thompson) have been running a series of...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 01/31/2012

SQL Server 2012 Customers

The SQL Server team blog has posted recently about customers using SQL Server 2012 today. This post...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 01/30/2012

SQL Server comments video

This nice video has people giving their comments on their favourite features of SQL Server 2012....

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 01/25/2012

International SharePoint Conference, London

I'm going to be speaking at the International SharePoint Conference in London on 23rd to 25th April....

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 01/24/2012

New SQL Server 2012 Demo

https://mssalesdemos.com now includes a demo machine for SQL Server 2012. This includes the Telco...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 01/16/2012

Amazingly useful site

If you're a Microsoft partner and you've tried to find training courses and online learning offered...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 01/09/2012

Playing with Power View

I've been playing around with Power View (formerly codename Project Crescent). I started with a...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 11/23/2011

SharePoint: The Bigger Picture

I'm organising an event in Microsoft's London office on 5th December. The name of the event is...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 11/14/2011

Two and a half minutes of awesome

These guys at SQL PASS presented on using Kinect to interact with SQL. Create databases by raising...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 10/21/2011

SQL Server Enterprise vs Standard

SQL Server 2008 R2 comes with a lot of features and functionality. Even the Standard version has a...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 10/05/2011

SQL Denali Demo Machine

SQL Server codename Denali is in beta and the third preview has been available for a little while,...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 09/09/2011

SQL Bits 9: Query Across the Mersey

Registration is open for the 9th SQL Bits, this time being held in Liverpool. The conference runs...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 08/15/2011

SQL Server Denali Product Guide

There is a new Product Guide available for SQL Server Codename Denali, the next version of SQL...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 08/12/2011

BI Practice Accelerator

There is a new training offering for partners on Business Intelligence. The Practice Accelerator is...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 06/20/2011

BI market growth

BI is a big opportunity for partners. Gartner recently released analysis of the BI market and found...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 05/27/2011

Mythbusting: SQL Server is expensive

This isn’t nearly as common a myth as some of the others I’ve described so far in this...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 05/24/2011

Mythbusting: SQL Server isn’t a market leader

In terms of big customers, Microsoft have been playing catch up with regard to databases. Some of...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 05/20/2011

Mythbusting: SQL Server isn’t secure

This is a myth that Microsoft have been fighting against for years. Some bad history has left us...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 05/18/2011

Mythbusting: SQL Server isn’t reliable

I started this series of posts talking about scalability and now I’ll talk about reliability....

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 05/17/2011

Mythbusting: SQL Server doesn’t scale

There are some stories and myths around SQL Server. Like a lot of myths, these stories may have some...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 05/16/2011

Advanced Copy

Yesterday, I received my advanced copy of the new edition of Designing Electronic Forms for...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 05/13/2011

Geeks in Delft: Day 6

The Escher museum Exploring the Hague Toasting stuff over the fire. Unfortunately, we've got to come...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 05/01/2011

Geeks in Delft: Days 4 & 5

Playing board games until 2am. Exploring Delft by canoe. Translating the menu. Exploring by foot. On...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 04/30/2011

Geeks in Delft: Day 3

Hacking is tiring work. Coding with chords. Hacking the bike. Playing with rafts again. It was bound...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 04/28/2011

Geeks in Delft: Day 2

Playing on the assault course. Spotting a suspiciously familiar building at the university (it looks...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 04/27/2011

Geeks in Delft: Day 1

Checking in at every station between St Pancras and Delft The girls' room. The smallest of the rooms...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 04/26/2011

Custom Document Information Panel

This demo shows how to create and edit a custom Document Information Panel for SharePoint documents...

Author: Jessica Meats Date: 03/18/2011

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