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September
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Come For The Education Stay For The Networking
OMG! SQLSATURDAY #97 IS HERE! I am really excited about SQLSaturday #97! In just a few short hours we will be opening the doors to a crowd of people wanting to learn about SQL Server. We have a crazy good lineup of speakers and a truly awesome group of sponsors ...
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PASS Summit Memories Blog Series – Day 30 – The Ones Yet to Come
Well the 2011 PASS Summit is over, and it was another wonderful week of events. Back when I started attending the PASS Summit I would write a blog post to recap each day. Eventually I didn’t have time to write that many posts and it became a one postr ...
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Creating your first Data Mining Structure and Model
Data mining is a great way to help your company make decisions and predict future values. The Data Mining Algorithms built into SQL Server Analysis Services gives you this power. The Adventure works data base comes with views that are already set up to perform data mining. Let’s take ...
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Microsoft SQL Server Reference Architecture and Appliances
Microsoft has made available SQL Server appliances and reference architectures that allow customers to deploy data warehouse (DW), business intelligence (BI) and database consolidation solutions in a very short time, with all the components pre-configured and pre-optimized. These appliances include all the hardware, software and services for a complete, ready-to-run ...
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Re-blog – September 23 – September 30
As I mentioned in the introductory post, I’m summarizing posts from previous years in the the past week. Some posts of interest that you may want to check out are: Index Black Ops Part 4 – Index Overhead and Maintenance (9-26-2010) Enjoy. Related posts:Re-blog – September 16 – September 22 ...
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Sorting Descending in Analysis Services for a Date Dimension: Don't Do It!
Why To Not Sort Date Dimension Descending Now that I am wiser, my recommendation is to leave your date dimension in ascending order. Within a day of implementing this technique to sort descending, we found a couple of time-oriented issues within the development environment this had been deployed to. Here ...
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The power of a shirt
I love wearing all my SQL Saturday speaker shirts. Here lately the trend has been nice golf or running shirts which look great with a pair of slacks. Today I work my speaker shirt from SQL Saturday #81 (Birmingham AL). I was shopping this evening at a local supermarket when ...
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