Daily Archives: June 8, 2010

The Parallel Data Warehouse Edition of SQL Server 2008 R2 – TechEd 2010

It’s the million dollar question. Literally. I stopped by the SQL Server area at TechEd in the expo to talk to Val Fontana, a Microsoft’ie I’ve known for a few years to talk about the largest, and yet-to-be-released version of … Continue reading

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BI at the Royal Canadian Mint – TechEd

The Royal Canadian Mint, in Ottawa, is located at a large castle. How cool is that? Would you want to work there? They are a $2B corporation, but about $700mm without gold trading/processing, with about 950 employees. Not the Canadian … Continue reading

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TechEd 2010 – BI Keynote Part 2

In the customer demo, a few reports that were built with PowerPivot and Report Builder 3.0, which are helpful to business people in their hospital. The mapping control in RB3 is nice, and the customer said they built the report … Continue reading

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TechEd 2010 – BI Keynote – Part 1

The second day’s keynote is by Ted Kummert and focuses on BI. This keynote is in one of the smaller auditoriums, which makes sense as only a portion of the attendees are interested in BI. However there are a fair … Continue reading

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