http://blogs.msdn.com/gerryo/archive/2008/08/08/sql-server-2008-beta-exam-71-452-designing-a-business-intelligence-infrastructure-using-microsoft-sql-server-2008.aspx   You are invited to take beta e

  Had the chance to go take the beta 71-448 for free this morning. Took me about an hour and a half. Since the exam is still in beta you won't receive your score for at least a few weeks. Bummer.   D

Registration is now open for the 2008 BI Conference here in Seattle. I was able to attend last year and to say it was worth it would be an understatement. Definitely attend if the opportunity presents

From time to time I'll need to recreate the dev/beta environment and I have to do that from production. I want an exact copy of production minus all the partitions that have been created with the exc

About six months ago I had a discussion with another guy about what my preferred data warehouse schema was: snowflake or star. Without hesitation I said snowflake. He looked at me with befuddlement an