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Over the last few days my focus has been on Microsoft's offering on Big Data and the technologies that surround these offerings. As all are well aware we have a partnership with Hortonworks around this. Today Hortonworks announced the general availability...

Recently I delivered the Business Intelligence Practice Accelerator for our esteemed partners. During the sessions I realized there was a dearth of information around DQS and LDS which is subsequently leading to diminished usage of the tools. Thats when...

Microsoft recently published the second of two white papers that our veteran Analysis Services team member, Cathy Dumas, wrote on the tabular model. This one is called Securing the Tabular BI Semantic Model . You can download the samples for the whitepaper...

In this article, I will use the following features: Parent Child Relationships, Row Level Security in Analysis Services (AS) 2012 Tabular Mode, and the Analyze in Excel feature in SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT). This article will also use various DAX functions...

Last Thursday, Microsoft released SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 1 (SP1) CTP4. Both the Service Pack and Feature Pack updates are available for download on the Microsoft Download Center. While CTP3 was primarily targeted at introducing the BI functionality...

This post provides a comprehensive list of all of the SQL Server 2012 Developer Training Kit Content . Check back here regulary for new and/or updated content. All content has been tested to work with the following technology releases: SQL Server...

And my love with my readers continues. Just got access to another free ebook on SQL Server 2012, so thought of updating everyone on it. The final and complete version of Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2012, by Ross Mistry (@RossMistry) and Stacia...

E-Book Gallery for Microsoft Technologies My first blog post, and what better way than to share with my readers some great ebooks which they can download for free. Download existing and new content for ASP.NET, Office, SQL Server, Windows Azure...