If you’re a business intelligence practitioner like me, you might have certain expectations from a book entitled Business Intelligence Success Factors: Tools for Aligning your Business in the Global Economy. You might think it contains lots of practical examples for implementing BI projects. Or if you’re someone who uses (or wants to use) BI in [...]

This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Jorge Segarra (blog | twitter) who decided that we should write about our favorite new feature in SQL Server 2008 R2. The majority of my published works concentrates on Reporting Services, so the obvious answer for me with regard to favorite new features is…Reporting Services. I can’t pick [...]

It’s amazing how natural it feels to write out 2010 on checks this first week of the new year. Usually it takes me at least a month. Maybe that’s a sign of good things to come this year. Probably like many of you, I look forward to the clean slate that the start of a [...]