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• Re-inventing the Wheel

  Interestingly I had two instances last week when I thought different parts of Microsoft were re-inventing the wheel. The first was while listening to Episode 496 of Dot Net Rocks, where they were talking about project Trident from Microsoft Research. Read More... Posted Monday, November 23, 2009 9:40 PM from Darren Gosbell [MVP] - Random Procrastination | (Comments Off) Filed under: General

• Good-bye OLAP Report – Hello The BI Verdict

  I just got an email telling me about this press announcement in relation to the OLAP report becoming the BI Verdict ( www.bi-verdict.com ). I wonder if this is reflection of the fact that "OLAP" is a technology and "BI" is about more than a single technology Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 03, 2009 5:48 PM from Darren Gosbell [MVP] - Random Procrastination | (Comments Off) Filed under: General

• OT: OfficeLabs Search Commands for Office 2007

  I quite like the new ribbon interface in Office 2007, but occasionally I still find myself sometimes hunting for commands that I know exist somewhere..... If you are the same, then you will be pleased to know that there is a really good solution to this Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 18, 2009 9:41 PM from Darren Gosbell [MVP] - Random Procrastination | (Comments Off) Filed under: General, OfficeLabs, Office 2007

• SQL Server 2008 Upgrade Whitepaper

  The SQL Server Engineering team has released a masive white paper that details upgrading to SQL Server 2008. It's all good information, but if you're reading this blog you're probably interested in chapter 10, which specifically covers SQL Server 2008 Read More... Posted Saturday, December 06, 2008 3:50 AM from SQL Server Express WebLog | (Comments Off) Filed under: Product Info, General

• Getting SQL Server 2008 Express on a DVD

  A small but persistent group of developers has been asking for SQL Server Express to be released on media, most commonly from those folks who live in areas without broadband Internet (yes, there are still such areas) for whom downloading an 80 MB package Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 11, 2008 3:27 AM from SQL Server Express WebLog | (Comments Off) Filed under: Product Info, General

• Codeplex RSS Feed for the entire project (not)

  A little while ago the team that work on the BIDS Helper project discovered something interesting about codeplex . Codeplex Wiki pages have the facility to allow people to add comments, but unlike all the other places where people can interact with a Read More... Posted Tuesday, August 26, 2008 9:30 PM from Darren Gosbell [MVP] - Random Procrastination | (Comments Off) Filed under: General, CodePlex, BIDS Helper

• Analogy between SQL Server and operating systems

  With SQL Server 2008 released, I was thinking back of earlier versions of SQL Server. And I decided to compare them to the MS operating systems. Not a point-in-time comparsion, like "SQL Server version x was released year a, which was the same year that Read More... Posted Friday, August 08, 2008 6:25 PM from Tibor Karaszi | (Comments Off) Filed under: General, Historical

• MVP for another year!

  I got an email from the MVP program this morning saying that I have received the MVP award for another year. And congratulations goes out to Greg Galloway on being awarded as an MVP. Greg and I have work with on BIDSHelper and the Analysis Services Stored Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 02, 2008 7:58 AM from Darren Gosbell [MVP] - Random Procrastination | (Comments Off) Filed under: General

• We are hiring

  My employer, James & Monroe are currently looking for people with strong skills in the Microsoft BI technologies. We are specifically looking for people to work at the Senior Consultant level that have experience with the SQL Server 2005 BI technologies Read More... Posted Friday, May 30, 2008 4:37 PM from Darren Gosbell [MVP] - Random Procrastination | (Comments Off) Filed under: General

• Endpoints, Netlibs, IPC and stuff...

  Its been a while since my last post. No special reason, just a combination of lot of work and I didn't feel I had something pressing to say... This topic is basically on how the client app communicates with SQL Server. Not the API level (like ADO or ODBC), Read More... Posted Thursday, May 29, 2008 1:37 AM from Tibor Karaszi | (Comments Off) Filed under: General, network

• More BI MVP goodness

  I just learned that we have some new BI MVPs that were awarded recently On the SSAS front Vidas Matelis (of www.ssas-info.com fame) has received a SQL Server MVP award. And two of my fellow countrymen and PerformancePoint specialists Adrian Downes and Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 02, 2008 9:36 AM from Darren Gosbell [MVP] - Random Procrastination | (Comments Off) Filed under: SQL Server, General

• The SQL Server script repository

  How come I've missed this? I don't know, but I'm writing this blog post so to bookmark this site. You'll find a handful of scripts, mainly using Dynamic Management Views and Functions, to monitor various aspects of SQL Server. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/scripts/sql/sql2005/default.mspx?mfr=true Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 04, 2008 6:18 AM from Tibor Karaszi | (Comments Off) Filed under: General

• BIDS or Bust: Writing reports in SQL Express 2008

  I asked for your oppinions about a new Report Designer in one of my earlier posts in this blog. I wanted to thank everyone for taking the time to offer feedback and for those of you who even filed a bug or two. As you've probably already guessed from Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 27, 2008 12:57 PM from SQL Server Express WebLog | (Comments Off) Filed under: Futures, General

• SQL Server Express and Hosting

  Several questions have come up lately regarding whether SQL Server Express is an appropriate product to be used in a hosting environment. Here are the answers: · User Instances (also known as RANU) available with SQL Server Express Edition, are NOT RECOMMENDED Read More... Posted Saturday, February 23, 2008 11:49 AM from SQL Server Express WebLog | (Comments Off) Filed under: Product Info, Headlines, General

• Understanding SQL Express behavior: Idle time resource usage, AUTO_CLOSE and User Instances

  I've gotten a number of questions recently asking how SQL Express uses resources during idle time, and how that behavior impacts the way SQL Express behaves "on first connection" after being idle for a period of time. While many of these questions have Read More... Posted Saturday, February 23, 2008 11:07 AM from SQL Server Express WebLog | (Comments Off) Filed under: FAQ, Product Info, General