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 [...]

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 [...]