I’m pleased to announce I’ll be working with SQLSkills– Kimberly Tripp, Paul Randall, Bob Beauchemin, and Elizabeth Vitt (my friend and colleagure from the Aspirity days)–as we prepare for Katmai’s release next year. I’ll still be posting blogs from time to time here on non-Katmai related topics, but I have a new blog to which [...]

SQL Server Magazine Connections is coming again to Las Vegas in November and I’m happy to be speaking there again. Not only is it a great opportunity to meet new people and reconnect with old friends, it’s a treat to be able to go to “work” in my home town. Oddly enough, I don’t do [...]

Another session I did at PASS addressed data mining. Here are the steps I followed during the demonstration and the view I added to the AdventureWorksDW database: Data Mining for the Rest of Us. You will need access to Analysis Services 2005 (either on your own machine or on your network) and you will need [...]

A couple of weeks ago, I delivered a presentation at PASS 2007 entitled “Searching Business Intelligence Data in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.” The steps to configure the environment correctly are considerable and difficult to represent with enough detail in PowerPoint slides, so I promised the audience not to sweat the details in note-taking and [...]