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It’s a bad idea. Co-locating the BI conference at TechEd has created a lot of confusion and annoyance. If people aren’t allowed to flow between the conferences, why have them together? Brad McGehee ran into this yesterday when he went … Continue reading →

The 7th T-SQL Tuesday is upon us and you can read about it on SQL Chicken’s blog. He’s hosting this month, with a few rule changes (like the picture above) and his call is for posts on new features in … Continue reading →

This is one of my favorite technologies for SQL Server 2008 R2. This session was from Torsten Grabs, the program manager. It starts looking at the value  of timely analysis. Being able to view, and use data in a timely … Continue reading →

You need consistent, reliable data. You want data that you can trust. This is usually data about your transactions, slowly changing data that multiple stakeholders need. This is not necessarily the traditional definition of MDM, but MS sees as master … Continue reading →