We’ve seen it on stage. It’s Excel on the steroids. I’m talking about “big announcement” here at Microsoft Business Intelligence Conference. The several announcements are: · Madison: the announcement of integration between SQL Server and DATAllegro, release  Read more

Today we published the draft of the paper ” SQLBI Methodology at work “. We applied the SQLBI Methodology to the well-known Adventure Works. As usual, we look forward to get your feedack in the dedicated forum .  Read more

The first cumulative update for SQL Server 2008 has been shipped. It can be downloaded here . This cumulative update contains several hotfix released for AS2005 (CU8, CU9, CU10) but not included in SQL Server 2008 RTM. There is also some bug fixed.  Read more

The next Microsoft Business Intelligence Conference is coming and I just looked at sessions to include in my agenda. Every time I do this work, I find something in sessions descriptions that anticipates something that is coming out as news announcement  Read more

This post is part of a Methodology discussion – other posts will follows. I will be happy to get your feedback! I am proud to announce a public draft of the first paper about the SQLBI Methodology . I and Alberto Ferrari tried to define a consistent methodology  Read more

Bart De Smet just wrote a long post about LINQ predicates that can be defined without returning a boolean value. This is something I partially evaluated writing the Programming Microsoft LINQ book, but in his post Bart goes very deep on this topic and  Read more

This post is part of a Methodology discussion – other posts will follows. I will be happy to get your feedback! Building a BI solution (like any kind of software project), it is normal to look for existing methodologies and best practices, just to avoid  Read more

Paul Stovell made a presentation on ” Reactive Programming and Bindable LINQ ” at TechED Australia 2008 (unfortunately, I was at the antipode in Italy, but the topic is really interesting). I didn’t know there are projects somewhat similar to Bindable  Read more

This post is part of a Methodology discussion – other posts will follows. I will be happy to get your feedback! One interesting question is “How do you measure the complexity of a BI solution?” If we need to decide whether a specific technique is suitable  Read more

In the last years I spent most of my time working on BI solutions based on the SQL Server platform. I had experiences with other architectures but I mostly used Kimball’s methodology to design relational databases feeding SSAS cubes. However, Kimball  Read more