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Waking up early morning for a technical webinar is so not me (I really love to have my sleep in the morning!); but then I was very interested in the PowerPivot webinar which was going to be taken by Rupesh Patric (Microsoft Partner Technical Consultant and an accomplished artist) exclusively for peo......
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There is one interesting story about NASA floating around the internet for quite some time now. The story goes like this - NASA spent millions to develop a pen that could write in space under zero gravity while the Soviet cosmonauts just used a pencil. Even though this is just a myth, I found it pre......
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Sometimes we get pampered so much by modern technology that we tend to raise the bar of necessity towards the fringes of luxury. 10 years back, a mobile phone was a luxury in my native place. Today, even school children carry one along with them and most of them take it as granted. Similarly, I had ......
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What do you do when you want to re-use an image in one of those old forgotten reports that was developed by that weird guy who left your company an year ago? No matter how much you hate or abuse that guy now, it is not going to do you any good as he didn’t save those images in a source or version co......
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I have been always interested in the potential of map reports. So naturally, when I found out a site which had quite a number of shapefiles for free, I decided to blog something just for the fun of working with map reports. Being around in the forums, I had seen a lot of posts asking how to drill do......
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Two weeks back, I was reading an insightful article by Thomas LaRock - Delivering a Great Presentation. A couple of lines kept on lingering in my mind, mainly - &quo......
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<p align="justify"><font color="#000000" size="2">Why do people write blogs or help other people in the technical forums? This was a frequent question that I used to ask to people around me. For some reason or the other, I couldn't fathom why people would want to spend their personal times on such s......
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If you have been following the PASS summit notes coming from the attendees, you would have noticed an unmatched sense of pandemonium in the SSAS community. The reason is none other than the announcement of Microsoft's decision to move from the traditional multidimensional SSAS database to the new in......
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One of those days, I was just chatting with a colleague of mine about some database designs and he was showing me some exquisite piece of work in the database. That is when I happened to glance upon a stored procedure which apparently seemed to materialize an already existin......
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<p align="justify"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Arial">Around 6 months ago, I was desperately looking for some online resources to help me implement some map reports. The shapefile I was dealing with was at a very granular level (which means that it had a lot of data, 2.5 MB in size), and we......
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