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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>ronpih's weblog : SQL Server</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/ronpih/archive/tags/SQL+Server/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: SQL Server</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)</generator><item><title>Gemini Blog Posts</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/ronpih/archive/2009/09/24/gemini-blog-posts.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:51:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9899211</guid><dc:creator>ronpih</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.msdn.com/ronpih/comments/9899211.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.msdn.com/ronpih/commentrss.aspx?PostID=9899211</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;P&gt;Our PMs are starting to author Gemini blog posts that describe various aspects of Gemini.&amp;nbsp; There are two new ones:&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;LI&gt;&lt;A href="http://blogs.msdn.com/gemini/archive/2009/09/09/importing-data-into-gemini.aspx" mce_href="http://blogs.msdn.com/gemini/archive/2009/09/09/importing-data-into-gemini.aspx"&gt;Importing Data&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;&lt;A href="http://blogs.msdn.com/gemini/archive/2009/09/24/data-feeds.aspx" mce_href="http://blogs.msdn.com/gemini/archive/2009/09/24/data-feeds.aspx"&gt;Using Data Feeds&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9899211" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/ronpih/archive/tags/BI/default.aspx">BI</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/ronpih/archive/tags/SQL+Server/default.aspx">SQL Server</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/ronpih/archive/tags/PowerPivot/default.aspx">PowerPivot</category></item><item><title>The Gemini Project</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/ronpih/archive/2008/10/09/the-gemini-project.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:45:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8993075</guid><dc:creator>ronpih</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.msdn.com/ronpih/comments/8993075.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.msdn.com/ronpih/commentrss.aspx?PostID=8993075</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;P&gt;For the past year and a half I've been working in the SQL Server Analysis Services team.&amp;nbsp; This week, we unveiled some details about the new project we're working on, project Gemini (aka Kilimanjaro), at the second annual BI conference.&amp;nbsp; A quick rundown of some of what the web is saying about it:&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;News:&lt;BR&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/oct08/10-06BI08PR.mspx"&gt;http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/oct08/10-06BI08PR.mspx&lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.nytimes.com/idg/IDG_852573C400693880002574DA006E1A0E.html?ref=technology"&gt;http://www.nytimes.com/idg/IDG_852573C400693880002574DA006E1A0E.html?ref=technology&lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/business_applications/microsoft_bi_gemini_lands_at_kilimanjaro.html"&gt;http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/business_applications/microsoft_bi_gemini_lands_at_kilimanjaro.html&lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.informationweek.com/news/business_intelligence/databases/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=210700128&amp;amp;cid=RSSfeed_IWK_ALL"&gt;http://www.informationweek.com/news/business_intelligence/databases/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=210700128&amp;amp;cid=RSSfeed_IWK_ALL&lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Database/Microsoft-Focuses-on-BI-for-SQL-Server-Kilimanjaro/"&gt;http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Database/Microsoft-Focuses-on-BI-for-SQL-Server-Kilimanjaro/&lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;A href="http://news.softpedia.com/news/Microsoft-SQL-Server-Code-Named-Kilimanjaro-in-2010-95083.shtml"&gt;http://news.softpedia.com/news/Microsoft-SQL-Server-Code-Named-Kilimanjaro-in-2010-95083.shtml&lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;A href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1621"&gt;http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1621&lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;A href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39499503,00.htm"&gt;http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39499503,00.htm&lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.crn.com/software/210700189"&gt;http://www.crn.com/software/210700189&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Blogs:&lt;BR&gt;&lt;U&gt;&lt;FONT color=#800080&gt;&lt;A href="http://sqlblog.com/blogs/mosha/archive/2008/10/06/so-what-is-exactly-project-gemini.aspx"&gt;http://sqlblog.com/blogs/mosha/archive/2008/10/06/so-what-is-exactly-project-gemini.aspx&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/U&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;A href="http://blogs.msdn.com/ashvinis/archive/2008/10/08/the-impact-of-gemini-or-the-power-of-a-simple-question.aspx"&gt;http://blogs.msdn.com/ashvinis/archive/2008/10/08/the-impact-of-gemini-or-the-power-of-a-simple-question.aspx&lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;A href="http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/barbaro/archive/2008/10/07/the-future-of-sql-server-project-kilimanjaro-madison-and-gemini.aspx"&gt;http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/barbaro/archive/2008/10/07/the-future-of-sql-server-project-kilimanjaro-madison-and-gemini.aspx&lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;A href="http://sqlblog.com/blogs/marco_russo/archive/2008/10/06/microsoft-bi-conference-2008-announcements-on-stage.aspx"&gt;http://sqlblog.com/blogs/marco_russo/archive/2008/10/06/microsoft-bi-conference-2008-announcements-on-stage.aspx&lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;A href="http://cwebbbi.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!7B84B0F2C239489A!2818.entry"&gt;http://cwebbbi.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!7B84B0F2C239489A!2818.entry&lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;A href="http://blogs.adatis.co.uk/blogs/timkent/archive/2008/10/07/day-1-at-the-bi-conference.aspx"&gt;http://blogs.adatis.co.uk/blogs/timkent/archive/2008/10/07/day-1-at-the-bi-conference.aspx&lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;A href="http://blogs.msdn.com/sqlcat/archive/2008/10/06/project-gemini-building-models-and-analysing-data-from-excel.aspx"&gt;http://blogs.msdn.com/sqlcat/archive/2008/10/06/project-gemini-building-models-and-analysing-data-from-excel.aspx&lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2008/10/project-kilimanjaro-gemini-announcements/"&gt;http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2008/10/project-kilimanjaro-gemini-announcements/&lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;A href="http://sandeep-giri.blogspot.com/2008/10/microsoft-bi-vision-excel-bi-democracy.html"&gt;http://sandeep-giri.blogspot.com/2008/10/microsoft-bi-vision-excel-bi-democracy.html&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Webcasts, Podcasts, etc.:&lt;BR&gt;mms://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msnse/0810/34416/Ted_Kummert_MBR.wmv&lt;BR&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.b-eye-network.com/listen/8729"&gt;http://www.b-eye-network.com/listen/8729&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;- Amir Netz&lt;BR&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.b-eye-network.com/listen/8732"&gt;http://www.b-eye-network.com/listen/8732&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;- Donald Farmer&lt;BR&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.b-eye-network.com/listen/8727"&gt;http://www.b-eye-network.com/listen/8727&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;- Kamal Hathi&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P mce_keep="true"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=8993075" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/ronpih/archive/tags/BI/default.aspx">BI</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/ronpih/archive/tags/SQL+Server/default.aspx">SQL Server</category></item><item><title>SSAS Blogs</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/ronpih/archive/2008/04/05/ssas-blogs.aspx</link><pubDate>Sun, 06 Apr 2008 07:17:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8362182</guid><dc:creator>ronpih</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.msdn.com/ronpih/comments/8362182.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.msdn.com/ronpih/commentrss.aspx?PostID=8362182</wfw:commentRss><description>Similar to my &lt;A class="" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/ronpih/pages/software-testing-blogs.aspx" mce_href="http://blogs.msdn.com/ronpih/pages/software-testing-blogs.aspx"&gt;software testing blog list&lt;/A&gt;, I'm starting a &lt;A class="" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/ronpih/pages/sql-server-analysis-services-related-blogs.aspx" mce_href="http://blogs.msdn.com/ronpih/pages/sql-server-analysis-services-related-blogs.aspx"&gt;list of blogs related to SQL Server Analysis Services&lt;/A&gt;.&amp;nbsp; Not much there yet but the list will grow.&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=8362182" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/ronpih/archive/tags/BI/default.aspx">BI</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/ronpih/archive/tags/SQL+Server/default.aspx">SQL Server</category></item><item><title>Video Tutorials - BI with Excel 2007</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/ronpih/archive/2008/03/23/video-tutorials-bi-with-excel-2007.aspx</link><pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2008 20:44:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8332460</guid><dc:creator>ronpih</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.msdn.com/ronpih/comments/8332460.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.msdn.com/ronpih/commentrss.aspx?PostID=8332460</wfw:commentRss><description>I saw &lt;A class="" href="http://www.bogdancrivat.net/dm/archives/37" mce_href="http://www.bogdancrivat.net/dm/archives/37"&gt;this&lt;/A&gt; from &lt;A class="" href="http://www.bogdancrivat.net/dm/" mce_href="http://www.bogdancrivat.net/dm/"&gt;Bogdan Crivat's blog&lt;/A&gt;.&amp;nbsp; I haven't checked it out yet but it's on my "to do" list.&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=8332460" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/ronpih/archive/tags/BI/default.aspx">BI</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/ronpih/archive/tags/SQL+Server/default.aspx">SQL Server</category></item><item><title>SQL Server Analysis Services Related Books</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/ronpih/archive/2008/03/10/sql-server-analysis-services-related-books.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:13:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8133025</guid><dc:creator>ronpih</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.msdn.com/ronpih/comments/8133025.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.msdn.com/ronpih/commentrss.aspx?PostID=8133025</wfw:commentRss><description>By no means complete but the page will live &lt;A class="" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/ronpih/pages/sql-server-analysis-services-books.aspx" mce_href="http://blogs.msdn.com/ronpih/pages/sql-server-analysis-services-books.aspx"&gt;here&lt;/A&gt; as it develops.&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=8133025" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/ronpih/archive/tags/BI/default.aspx">BI</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/ronpih/archive/tags/SQL+Server/default.aspx">SQL Server</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/ronpih/archive/tags/Books/default.aspx">Books</category></item></channel></rss>