Sign In
Business Intelligence and Report Ramblings...
Steve Carroll's thoughts on Business Intelligence, Reporting and all things data related
Translate This Page
Translate this page
Powered by
Microsoft® Translator
Options
About
Email Blog Author
RSS for posts
Atom
RSS for comments
OK
Search
Advanced search options...
Search In:
Everything
Blogs
Forums
People
Groups
Places
Pages
Date range:
All Time
Last Year
Last 6 Months
Last 3 Months
Last Month
Last Week
Last Two Days
Tags
Announcement
Best Practices
Business Intelligence Development Studio
Cloud Services
Clustering
Excel
High Availability
Mirroring
Pages
Patches
Policy Based Management
PSSDiag
Reporting Services
Security
Service Pack
SharePoint
SP3
SQL Pass
SQL Server 2005
SQL Server 2008
SQLDiag
SSRS
Archive
Archives
November 2009
(4)
December 2008
(4)
November 2008
(6)
October 2008
(4)
MSDN Blogs
>
Business Intelligence and Report Ramblings...
Posts
Subscribe via RSS
Sort by:
Most Recent
|
Most Views
|
Most Comments
Excerpt View
|
Full Post View
Business Intelligence and Report Ramblings...
SQL Pass – Seattle 2009 – Day 4
Posted
over 3 years ago
by
Steve Carroll
0
Comments
Keynote : Wow… I feel smarter now. David Dewitt, a Microsoft Technical Fellow who works in the Data and Storage Platform Division, presented this morning all I can say is WOW. If I had professors in college that could speak half as well...
Business Intelligence and Report Ramblings...
SQL Pass – Seattle 2009 – Day 3
Posted
over 3 years ago
by
Steve Carroll
0
Comments
Bright and early this AM. I couldn’t sleep this morning and found myself up and awake at some crazy hour of the dark. Not wanting to force sleep when I’ll be going home to the east coast soon enough, I decided to take a walk and went down...
Business Intelligence and Report Ramblings...
SQL Pass – Seattle 2009 – Day 2
Posted
over 3 years ago
by
Steve Carroll
0
Comments
OK… I’ve started to follow up on my promise to document my experiences here at SQL Pass. So on for my breakdown of my day 2. Keynote : Attended the keynote presentations from Bob Muglia and Ted Kummert. Bob brought a great history...
Business Intelligence and Report Ramblings...
SQL Pass – Seattle 2009 – Day 1
Posted
over 3 years ago
by
Steve Carroll
0
Comments
Well… I realize that it has been a little while since I’ve blogged. Apologies for the delay, but I’ve been slightly distracted at work. Since I’ve last posted, I’ve spent a great deal of time working in SQL 2008 and have had the opportunity...
Business Intelligence and Report Ramblings...
SQL Server 2005 SP3 - Shipped
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
Steve Carroll
0
Comments
After much waiting and grumbling from the SQL Server community, the much anticipated service pack 3 for SQL Server 2005 shipped on 12/15/08. Finally we have a single avenue to apply all of our rollup packages that is fully regression tested. I've been...
Business Intelligence and Report Ramblings...
SQL Server 2008 Upgrade Information
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
Steve Carroll
0
Comments
I came across a fantastic piece of information for those who are looking to upgrade their existing SQL Server 2000 or 2005 instances to SQL Server 2008. I know from past experience that it is no fun flying into this type of upgrade blind so this is a...
Business Intelligence and Report Ramblings...
Security Guidance for SQL Server
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
Steve Carroll
0
Comments
In my eager attempt yesterday to post my findings on SQL Server 2008 great new security features (read more here ) I neglected to provide some valuable security information I have accumulated over the last couple of years for the other editions of SQL...
Business Intelligence and Report Ramblings...
Security Features in SQL Server 2008
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
Steve Carroll
0
Comments
As most DBA's are aware, applications sometimes store sensitive information. This may be Social Security numbers, credit card information, salary information... and data owners have a concern that prying eyes may be reviewing this sensitive data without...
Business Intelligence and Report Ramblings...
SQL Server 2008 Features by Edition Breakdown
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
Steve Carroll
1
Comments
I've been helping people with SQL Server for quite a while now, and I continually hunt for information regarding what features are available in which edition of SQL Server. Well, SQL Server 2008 has improved in many ways, including new edition packages...
Business Intelligence and Report Ramblings...
Report Builder Gotcha'
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
Steve Carroll
0
Comments
Using SQL Server 2005 sp3, running on 32bit Vista with sp1. I'm creating report models using Business Intelligence Development Studio and as I go to edit an expression I find that I get a message "Access to the path 'C:\Windows\system32\config' is denied...
Business Intelligence and Report Ramblings...
Best Practice Guidance
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
Steve Carroll
0
Comments
Ok... more often than not, I'm asked about best practices for SQL Server. I figured I'd share my best practices bookmarks in no particular order to hopefully give you a new resource to find these. I'd love to hear from you on what you use and what you...
Business Intelligence and Report Ramblings...
SQL Server 2005 SP3
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
Steve Carroll
1
Comments
Patch time for SQL Server... Well almost. SP3 for SQL Server 2005 has been in CTP for a while now (10/27/08) and all is appearing to be really good. I finally got around to installing the beta patch the other night on my home servers and experienced no...
Business Intelligence and Report Ramblings...
Changes in SQL Server 2008 Clustering
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
Steve Carroll
0
Comments
First and most important thing to remember when working on designing a SQL Server cluster is it is entirely dependent upon the underlying base architecture that you choose to implement for the operating system. Here, it really pays to do your homework...
Business Intelligence and Report Ramblings...
Embrace the use of Conditional Formatting
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
Steve Carroll
0
Comments
One of the most underused functions I have found in Reporting Services is the use of conditional formatting. Lets face it, in today's Ridilin influenced ADD society, we need to draw attention to significant events. Lets face it, Outlook, pops up alerts...
Business Intelligence and Report Ramblings...
Funny use of Excel
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
Steve Carroll
0
Comments
Technorati Tags: Excel Ok... I'm going to stretch a little bit on this one. Everyone knows the power Excel brings to the table in terms of data processing and crunching numbers. Someone pointed me to a funny web-site where the band AC/DC has created a...
Business Intelligence and Report Ramblings...
SQL Services Lab
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
Steve Carroll
0
Comments
Today at the Microsoft PDC conference there was a demonstration of Reporting Services leveraging SSDS or (SQL Server Data Services AKA SQL Server in the Cloud). This is one of the many exciting areas of work being undertaken by the SQL Services Lab team...
Business Intelligence and Report Ramblings...
Using Reporting Services with SharePoint as a data source
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
Steve Carroll
0
Comments
I ran into an interesting article the other day. On more than one occasion, I've had to report against data held within a SharePoint list. Each time, I've had to go out and query the SharePoint content database directly, which for obvious reasons, is...
Page 1 of 1 (17 items)