Seats are limited – act fast! This week I will be hosting two free events at the Microsoft Office in Alpharetta, GA on Wednesday, February 25th and Friday, February 27th. Join me to learn how to use Microsoft’s self-service Business Continue reading
Implementing Tabular Data Models Date: November 11, 2014 Time: 9am‒5pm PST Where: Live, online virtual classroom: http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/liveevents/implementing-tabular-data-models Cost: Free! Register today! (linkto: http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/liveevents/implementing-tabular-data-models) What will you do with all that data? What about building corporate BI solutions, creating self-service Continue reading
I’ve had a few discussions in the past week about not only including Excel spreadsheets on PerformancePoint dashboards, but specifically about how to pass values from Filters to the spreadsheet. I did a few demonstrations to show the capability to Continue reading
SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services introduced Power View, which was initially available only in SharePoint. This limited the use of Power View only to those individuals and organizations that had SharePoint deployed in some environment. To make Power View more Continue reading
I know that it has been a while, and I apologize. I have been traveling around the U.S. evangelizing SQL Server to public schools, colleges and universities. Now that does not excuse my time away from the blog, but that Continue reading
Last week while assisting a customer configure SharePoint BI I ran into an interesting problem when configuring PerformancePoint. After following all the steps precisely on this page: Configure PerformancePoint Services: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee748644.aspx We opened the dashboard designer. Next we started to Continue reading
I was recently asked by a customer if you could build a Shared Dataset using Report Builder 3.0. More specifically, can you build a Shared Dataset that combines multiple tables from the same database? To be honest, I wasn’t sure Continue reading
Join me next month to learn about a new Geospatial visualization feature of Excel 2013 on the SQL Lunch. Lunch Details #75-GeoFlow: 3D Geospatial Visualization Speaker: Julie Koesmarno Add To Outlook: Add To Calendar Date and Time: 5/10/2013 11:30:00 AM CSTBIO: Continue reading
First, I would like to thank everyone for joining my webcasts today. Very much appreciated. Secondly, I would like to apologize for not being able to show the AlwaysOn demonstration. Shortly, after the webcast I found out that we lost Continue reading
It has been some time since I have hosted or presented on the SQL Lunch. Work and home life is a balancing act where home typically wins. In the case of the SQL Lunch home is winning more and more Continue reading