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	<title>Data Inspirations</title>
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	<description>Inspiring Intelligence from Information</description>
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		<title>Maybe It&#8217;s Just Me&#8230; A Perspective from One Woman in IT</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I could be a little late to the party, but I caught wind of a blog post, &#8220;Booth Babes Don&#8217;t Wear Glasses,&#8221; circulating in the Twitterverse that prompted me to investigate and I was a bit startled by some of the statements made. I was trying to wrap up my latest chapter on my current [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.datainspirations.com/2010/07/29/maybe-its-just-me-a-perspective-from-one-woman-in-it/</link>
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		<title>Analysis Services Data Connections and SharePoint &#8211; One Solution to &#8220;Connection Cannot Be Made&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently I came across a problem with an Analysis Services data connection when I was trying to create a status indicator in SharePoint 2010 (formerly known as a key performance indicator in SharePoint 2007). I had successfully created the data connection in Excel, verified that I could create a PivotTable with it, and then saved [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.datainspirations.com/2010/06/27/analysis-services-sharepoint-connection/</link>
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		<title>Laissez les bon temps rouler! (Microsoft BI Conference 2010)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Laissez les bons temps rouler&#8221; is a Cajun phrase that I heard frequently when I lived in New Orleans in the mid-1990s. It means &#8220;Let the good times roll!&#8221; 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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.datainspirations.com/2010/06/15/laissez-les-bon-temps-rouler/</link>
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		<title>SQL Server 2008 R2: These are a Few of My Favorite Things</title>
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This month&#8217;s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Jorge Segarra (blog &#124; 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&#8230;Reporting Services. I can&#8217;t pick [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.datainspirations.com/2010/06/08/sql-server-2008-r2-these-are-a-few-of-my-favorite-things/</link>
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		<title>Installing SharePoint 2010 and PowerPivot for SharePoint on Windows 7</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many people like me want (or need) to do their business intelligence development work on a laptop. As someone who frequently speaks at various events or teaches classes on all subjects related to the Microsoft business intelligence stack, I need a way to run multiple server products on my laptop with reasonable performance. Once upon [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.datainspirations.com/2010/05/23/installing-powerpivot-for-sharepoint-on-windows-7/</link>
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		<title>SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services &#8211; The World is But a Stage (T-SQL Tuesday #006)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Host Michael Coles (blog&#124;twitter) has selected LOB data as the topic for this month&#8217;s T-SQL Tuesday, so I&#8217;ll take this opportunity to post an overview of reporting with spatial data types. As part of my work with SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services, I&#8217;ve been exploring the use of spatial data types in the new [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.datainspirations.com/2010/05/11/sql-server-2008-r2-reporting-services-the-word-is-but-a-stage-t-sql-tuesday-006/</link>
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		<title>Reporting Services &#8211; It&#8217;s a Wrap!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you have any experience at all with Reporting Services, you have probably developed a report using the matrix data region. It&#8217;s handy when you want to generate columns dynamically based on data. If users view a matrix report online, they can scroll horizontally to view all columns and all is well. But if they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.datainspirations.com/2010/05/09/reporting-services-its-a-wrap/</link>
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		<title>Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 &#8211; Business Intelligence Samples</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On April 14, 2010, Microsoft Press (blog &#124; 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&#8217;ll find a comprehensive review of the product&#8217;s features [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.datainspirations.com/2010/04/30/intro-sql-server-2008-r2-bi-samples/</link>
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		<title>SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services &#8211; I&#8217;ve Got Your Page Number (T-SQL Tuesday #005)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As you might have guessed if you&#8217;ve been reading my blog lately, I&#8217;ve been spending a lot of time working with the business intelligence features in SQL Server 2008 R2. Not just Reporting Services, but the whole BI stack. However, it just so happens that today is T-SQL Tuesday and the topic this month is Reporting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.datainspirations.com/2010/04/13/ssrs-page-number/</link>
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		<title>SQL Server 2008 R2: Reporting Services – Look Up, Look Down, Look All Around (Part III)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s post is the 3rd post in a series about the new lookup functions in SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services. I covered the Lookup function in Part I of this series and the MultiLookup function in Part II.  The third and final lookup function is LookupSet.
First, a quick review. The Lookup function evaluates one value per row in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.datainspirations.com/2010/04/07/sql-server-2008-r2-reporting-services-look-up-part-iii/</link>
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