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OK, since this conference in is England, it’s a little harder to get to compared
to TechEd. No matter, all the videos for this conference are online (65 of them).
Take a look at the recorded sessions at
http://sqlbits.com/content/Event8. All are fre......
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I have always wondered if queries against a SSAS cube while it is processing would
be forced to wait the entire time the cube is processing, or just for a few minutes?
Or would the query bomb out? Surprisingly, I found little information on the internet
about ......
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At the recent TechEd North America 2011 conference, details on the next version
of SQL Server called
“Denali” were released. Part of those details were an update on the SQL
Server Analysis Services (SSAS)
roadmap. The main new feature in SSAS is ......
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SQLdiag is a diagnostics collection utility to collect logs and data files from SQL Server that you can use to monitor your servers over time or troubleshoot specific problems with your servers. SQLdiag can collect data from: Windows performance logs, Windows event logs, SQL Server Profiler traces,......
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SQL Server “Denali”
is the code name for the next version of SQL Server. The CTP1 of Denali was released
on Nov 8, 2010, and you can download it
here. The next CTP will be available this summer, and you can
signup to be notified when it i......
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There are three tools I use every day without exception. They all save me valuable
time in surfing the net:
Delicious – This is a free bookmarking
tool that works so much better than the built-in bookmarking in IE. You can install
a Delic......
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While nothing beats going to a conference, the next best thing is to watch the recorded
sessions. Fortunately, Microsoft has posted ALL the session videos for Tech·Ed North
America 2011 and they are available for free! Here is the
list of just the SQL Se......
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A nice new little add-in available for SSMS on
Codeplex. It helps with repetitive tasks involved with SSAS such as processing
and deployment. As the site says, the goal for the Analysis Services Helper is to
fill in gaps in the toolset inside SSMS, and de......
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Researchers at the University of California, San Diego have published a list of
job-market hotspots, and in the top ten is Data Mining and Analytics. The study
is based on enrollment figures, national employment statistics and interviews with
San Diego busines......
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Microsoft has just released a new SSIS transform, called the SSIS Balanced Data
Distributor (BDD). You can download it
here.
This transform takes a single input and distributes the incoming rows to one or
more outputs uniformly via multithread......
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