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Wednesday, February 23, 2005 7:02 PM

Office Excel Add-in for Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services – its free, its powerful and it could save you money!

Well I’ve been blogging for a 11 weeks or so and looking at my stats I can see the posts that attract the most attention are those that either advertise a freebie or offer a performance tip.  So, blatantly pandering to my ratings, here’s another
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Thursday, February 17, 2005 4:31 PM

Office Business Scorecards Accelerator – the ultimate marriage of business and intellgence. Another free application from Microsoft

At first glance, particularly if you’re a jaundiced techie like me, you may think the Balanced Scorecard is a concept wholly worthy of its acronym, BS.  You might find a description of its function couched in those seemingly worthless terms like
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Monday, February 14, 2005 5:25 PM

Reporting Services : 21 Report packs released to the web for free download

Just incase you missed this freebie: Report Packs SQL Server 2000 Report Pack for Microsoft CRMDownload this set of six predefined CRM-based reports and a sample database that let you easily visualize and author managed reports to support key sales
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Wednesday, February 02, 2005 11:13 AM

SQL Server SP4 Beta is still Open

SQL Server SP4 Beta is still Open. Customers can sign up here for the SP4 Beta Program http://www.microsoft.com/sql/evaluation/betanominations.asp.  Upcoming Wechat on SQL Server SP4 on February 15, 2:00 – 3:00pm PST. Sign up here: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/chats/default.mspx
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Tuesday, February 01, 2005 4:28 PM

I'm trying to find some detail on Patch management / deployment on a 4 SQL Server node cluster?

Stephen Daborn asked this question on my High Availability blog entry and I didn't get back before the post closed - sorry Stephen - been doing a lot of snow boarding recently. Anyway its a good question and it deserves an answer. The best thing to do
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Tuesday, February 01, 2005 3:54 PM

Business Intelligence Portal Sample Application for Microsoft Office

A good number of people have told me just how useful this sample application is: Business intelligence portal sample application for Microsoft Office 2003 is an integrated, web-based OLAP solution that enables employees in an organization to create and
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Friday, January 07, 2005 11:23 AM

SQL Server Health and History Tool (SQLH2)

This tool has been available for a couple of months but I only found out about it yesterday; I was reading some stuff about SQL Server 2005 and found a reference to say this tool will be supported in SQL 2k5.  Realising such downloads have sometimes
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Wednesday, January 05, 2005 12:46 PM

Catch the SQL Server 2005 Express, it’s the future and it’s free!

We’ve all been waiting a long time for SQL Server 20005 and not everyone has been able to get the betas to get an early look.  Well now anyone can get their hands on the beta 2 of SQL Server 2005 Express edition.   The Express edition, what’s
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Wednesday, December 22, 2004 10:24 PM

The SQL Server Web Data Administrator enables you to easily manage your SQL Server data, wherever you are!

Because it often pains me to find so many of our (SQL Server) customers aren’t aware of the freebies available to them, I will be posting ‘adverts’ for these freebies from time to time.  This is one such tool and this is the advertising pitch: The
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Wednesday, December 22, 2004 6:34 PM

Benchmark your SAN or disk subsystem IO throughput – with SQLIO, free to Microsoft SQL Server users

Benchmarking systems is one of the most important things you can do; amazing how many people don’t do it.  Benchmarking your disk subsystem is even more vital; even more amazing how many people don’t do it.   Why is benchmarking your disk subsystem
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Wednesday, December 08, 2004 10:05 AM

SQL Server Accelerator for Business Intelligence (SSABI) - often unheard of and sometimes underestimated

SQL Server Accelerator for Business Intelligence (SSABI) is one of the best and most exciting tools I've ever used.  Alas too many people haven't heard about it and sometimes people underestimate it because of its appearance – an Excel spreadsheet. 
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