“Laissez les bons temps rouler” is a Cajun phrase that I heard frequently when I lived in New Orleans in the mid-1990s. It means “Let the good times roll!” and encapsulates a feeling of happy expectation. As I met with many of my peers and new acquaintances at the Microsoft BI Conference last week, this [...]

On April 14, 2010, Microsoft Press (blog | twitter) released my latest book, co-authored with Ross Mistry (twitter), as a free ebook download – Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2. As the title implies, this ebook is an introduction to the latest SQL Server release. Although you’ll find a comprehensive review of the product’s features [...]

TechNet is publishing a series of four articles introducing readers to business intelligence. I have written two of these articles while a friend of mine, Derek Comingore of BI Voyage, has written one of them. The fourth article is not yet written, but I’ll post a link here when it becomes available. A lot of [...]