Congratulations to my friend and colleague Greg LeClair for officially becoming a SQL Server Master! It became official today. For anyone unfamiliar with the Master’s program, check out the link … more

Just posted earlier this afternoon, Ted Kummert’s keynote speech for the 2010 BI conference can be viewed here. Other notable speakers during this keynote: Donald Farmer, Microsoft Principal … more

One of the great topics in today’s keynote session centered around shortly? coming features for PowerPivot – namely: Integration with Visual Studio 2010 Ability to utilize SSAS 2008 R2 … more

And this was one of them: “Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services Consolidation Best Practices Considerations”.  The SQL CAT team continues to deliver – every conference I have … more

By now, some of you may have come across this error when processing your dimensions: File system error: a FileStore error from WriteFile occurred. Physical file: \\?\some path to a file. Logical … more

So many good tools out there, and yet not all of them get noticed….. At the SQL Pass conference the week before, I attended one of the classes by the Microsoft CSS groups on common Analysis … more

You may or may not have heard by now that the business intelligence capability in SharePoint 2010 now has a platform branding called INSIGHTS. I will blog more about the features in my “down … more

I figured this was worth a quick post: while many of SQL Server’s aspects are cluster aware, SSIS is not. Why? My guess is that there is not a pressing business need for this to be a cluster … more