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Wednesday, January 04, 2006 3:37 PM

Free SAP Customer Workshops "How Microsoft Runs SAP" Munich on February 7, 2006 and in Brussels on February 9, 2006.

These courses rarely come to Europe - so if you're interested be quick! From the blurb:- We would like to invite you to attend the upcoming SAP Customer Workshop about How Microsoft Runs SAP. The same session will be held in Munich on February 7, 2006
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Monday, November 28, 2005 5:47 PM

Feature Pack for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 - November 2005

Overview The Feature Pack is a collection of standalone install packages that provide additional value for SQL Server 2005. It includes: Latest versions of redistributable components for SQL Server 2005 Latest versions of add-on providers for SQL
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Thursday, October 06, 2005 2:52 PM

Changing Job

It is with sadness that I have to announce that I am changing jobs and moving back into my old role as a Product Specialist, working with our Enterprise customers in a pre-sales capacity.Alas, I won’t have as much time to blog now, but I’ll do my best
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Tuesday, September 20, 2005 12:59 AM

OLAP, Darwin and Evolution

Edited 21st Sept 05 to include picture of herbarium sheet.   In my article 'Business Intelligence (BI): The way it is without the blah blah', I mention that I was aware of some exiting research using the SQL Server OLAP engine, the results of which
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Thursday, August 25, 2005 1:23 PM

64 Bit performance v 32 bit performance - some compelling evidence

More and more ITPros are looking for help in deciding between 64 bit and 32 bit boxes, often they are looking for evidence that 64 bit is worth the investment and worth the risk (of adopting a new platform). This link http://www.microsoft.com/sql/64bit/productinfo/winhecdemo.mspx
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Friday, August 19, 2005 3:47 PM

Fame at last: Ten Useful Microsoft Blogs

Redmondmag.com have published an article 'Ten Useful Microsoft Blogs' @ http://www.redmondmag.com/columns/article.asp?EditorialsID=1044 Guess who's number 2? Also at number 10 is the UKs own Industry Insiders blog http://blogs.technet.com/industry%5Finsiders/. 
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Friday, August 19, 2005 2:20 PM

Blogcasts: SQL Server 2000 - Configuring System Monitor & Monitoring SQL Server performance & Configuring alerts

Three new SQL Server 2000 blogcasts out of Redmond: Demo 4-1 Configuring System Monitor                     http://www.microsoft.com/winme/0506/24231/TNT1-160_Demo_4-1.asxDemo
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Friday, August 19, 2005 11:24 AM

Reporting Services: Calling an aspx page from a report and passing a parameter

Sudhi recently asked me how to call an aspx page from a report and pass a parameter held in a textbox, or other control. My solution is: Drag a textbox control on to the report and enter the value "2005/07/28/408325" (without the the quotes) in to it. 
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Tuesday, August 16, 2005 11:49 AM

SQL Server Reporting Services Report Packs - looking for suggestions

when I was over in the US recently, I attended a 'Bill Baker and team unplugged' session, (Bill is the GM for SQL Server Business Intelligence).  Reporting Services Report packs came up as a topic for discussion.  The team asked the audience
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Thursday, August 04, 2005 3:08 AM

Letter from America 3 - Mischievous reports and feeding the 5000

After all my messing around yesterday, I've decided to create this post in pocket word. I attended a securty session yesterday and was reminded of an issue that can send DBAs scuttling from the room when they learn of it's presence, the 'trojan report'.
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Wednesday, August 03, 2005 2:06 AM

Letter from America 2

I've had a really hard time with my iPaq today.  First thing this morning I couldn't get it to connect to anything.  For ages I poked about - everything looked fine.  Then eventually I found, in the asset viewer, that I had no IP address. 
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Monday, August 01, 2005 10:58 PM

Letter from America 1

I'm in Seattle this week at Microsoft's first TechReady conference. What's more I'm totally mobile; I didn't bring my laptop. Instead I'm relying on my iPaq with built in wireless and bluetooth.1 To help me type I'm trialing a software keyboard I downloaded
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Friday, July 29, 2005 3:15 PM

Get Ready for SQL Server 2005 with Free Microsoft E-Learning Courses.

More and more people are asking me about SQL 2005 training courses and certification.  I believe the exams will be ready in Q1 next year.  In the meantme, how about access to the training courses absolutely free until 1st November @ https://www.microsoftelearning.com/sqlserver2005
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Friday, July 22, 2005 2:15 PM

Blogcast: Using SQL 2000 Profiler

Here's another blogcast in the SQL 2000 performance blogcast series out of the States - this time 'Using SQL 2000 Profiler'.  This one's a bit long at 11mins 8secs. http://www.microsoft.com/winme/0506/24231/TNT1-160_Demo_3.asx
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Thursday, July 21, 2005 2:38 PM

Serialising an ADOMD.net CellSet object

I'm grateful to T.K. Anand for this useful code snippet which is useful if you're writing a web services client that consumes OLAP data. The following Adomd.net code can be used for saving and loading cellsets… Save:           
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