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Friday, April 25, 2008 6:45 PM

Two Pieces of Technical News from Kalen

Kalen Delaney has one of the most consistently informative SQL Server blogs in all of the Internets, and unless I miss my guess, it was also she who left the first of the very supportive comments I've received in the wake of my recent series of personal
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008 8:45 PM

CTP 6 of SQL Server 2008 Is Now Available For Download

The latest CTP of SQL Server 2008 is available for download at the Microsoft Connect website, here . The list of new features in this release is pretty impressive: Progress-Based Management: policy violation alerts, policy import, running and evaluating
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Saturday, October 20, 2007 9:30 PM

Lubor Offers a Wonderful Synopsis of Partitioning

One of the best parts of my current job is that the email distribution lists I'm on allow me to be a "fly on the wall" for some very interesting, educational conversations. Terry started this one off by asking a question: I’ve heard it recommended that
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Thursday, August 16, 2007 4:15 PM

CTP4 Of PerformancePoint Server 2007 Available For Download

The fourth and final CTP for PerformancePoint Server 2007 is now available for download here . Those of you into BI scorecarding should definitely go get it! -wp
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Sunday, May 13, 2007 7:30 PM

Microsoft BI Conference 2007: Days 2 and 3

As the great John Lennon once said, "life is what happens when you're busy making other plans." I had hoped to spend all of Thursday and most of Friday at the BI Conference, but some late-breaking issues at work pulled me away from the two Thursday afternoon
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Wednesday, May 09, 2007 5:00 PM

Microsoft BI Conference 2007: Day 1

As I mentioned yesterday , I'm attending the inaugural Microsoft BI Conference at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center in downtown Seattle. There are over 2600 people in attendance. In addition to the "canned" presentations, there are a number
Posted by Ward Pond | 2 Comments
Tuesday, May 08, 2007 4:30 PM

Networking Opportunity: See You At The Microsoft BI Conference!

In the midst of week three of our third SQL Ranger rotation, I'm going to take a powder for three days and attend the first-ever Microsoft BI Conference at the Washington State Convention Center in downtown Seattle for the rest of this week. I'll be posting
Posted by Ward Pond | 1 Comments
Friday, March 09, 2007 7:30 PM

New To SSIS? Come Take A Guided Tour..

One of the more interesting and perhaps challenging aspects of a SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2005 upgrade is the migration from DTS to SSIS for ETL (Extract-Transform-Load) activities. SSIS isn't an upgrade of DTS, but is in fact an entirely new, and
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Friday, November 17, 2006 4:45 PM

SQL PASS 2006, Day 5

The SQL PASS 2006 Community Summit wraps up this afternoon. The entire conference has run very smoothly; the organizers and volunteers should be very pleased with themselves. I got here this morning just in time for David Ca mpbell's keynote. David was
Posted by Ward Pond | 3 Comments
Thursday, November 16, 2006 4:00 PM

SQL PASS 2006, Day 4

Another day at the SQL PASS 2006 Community Summit , and my education continues on more axes than I would've thought possible. The day started very early, with Quest Software 's breakfast seminar, The Growing World of SQL Server: Surviving The Data Avalanche
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Wednesday, November 15, 2006 4:30 PM

SQL PASS 2006: Breakfast Panel Venue Change

From a personal perspective, I somewhat " buried the lead " in my last post , so here it is again in a post of its own.. The response to Quest Software 's breakfast panel seminar, The Growing World of SQL Server: Surviving The Data Avalanche , has been
Posted by Ward Pond | 0 Comments
Wednesday, November 15, 2006 4:15 PM

SQL PASS 2006, Day 3

Networking, I'm user friendly Networking, I install with ease Data processed, truly BASIC I will upload you, you can download me - Networking , Warren Zevon and Stefan Arngrim Today is the third day of my trip to the SQL PASS 2006 Community Summit , and
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Tuesday, November 14, 2006 4:00 PM

SQL PASS 2006, Day 2

Greetings from the last break of the second day of preconference seminars from SQL PASS 2006 . Since my primary goal in attending this week is to get up to speed on BI issues, today I'm attending a seminar called, "Enterprise ETL with Integration Services",
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Monday, November 13, 2006 10:30 AM

Greetings From SQL PASS!

At the moment, I'm on my first break of my first morning of my first PASS, and so far it's all been good. I rode the Sound Transit 545 bus in from Redmond and was deposited two blocks from the Convention Center. The preconference session on my agenda
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Tuesday, November 07, 2006 1:45 PM

See You At PASS!

This news has been in the works for a couple of days, but it was only just this morning that everything came into focus.. There are two pieces of news to share: one is that I will be in attendance at next week's 2006 PASS Community Summit in Seattle.
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