Comparing SharePoint 2007 and 2010 Content Databases
It’s no secret that you are not supposed to touch SharePoint databases but there certainly are some scenarios which would tempt you to at least read from them; mostly for performance reasons. For...
View ArticleI’m speaking at Cloud & Virtualization Live!, Dec. 10-14 in Orlando – will...
I’ll be speaking at a brand new cloud & virtualization conference for IT professionals, systems administrators, developers and consultants – Cloud & Virtualization Live!, December 10-14 in...
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Bing, Klout, SQL, Hadoop and the Power of Social: Real Time Collaboration!
I’m always fascinated by the power of Social to connect people and information quickly. I’m also intrigued by the sense of community that can be driven by social collaboration, and how that community...
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The Twelve Days of Lync’mas: Introduction
I am sure you are familiar with the old holiday tune, “The Twelve Days of Christmas.” My favorite rendition as a child was by John Denver and the Muppets. We had the record- yes, actual vinyl- and...
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The Third Day of Lync’mas: SQL DB Mirroring
This is part three of a twelve post series, to see an index of all twelve posts click here. On the third day of Lync’mas my UC Team gave to me: three SQL Servers Everyone that’s heard of Microsoft SQL...
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Lync support for Windows Server 2012 and SQL Server 2012
This is the final post in the Twelve Days of Lync’mas series, to see an index of all twelve posts, click here. On the twelfth day of Lync’mas my UC team gave to me: Support for Windows and SQL Server...
View ArticleThe Dependency Checker Accelerator
The database centric solutions created by the National Microsoft Business Intelligence Practice often require a sequence of events that must run in a certain order. An example of a sequence of events...
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CRM Related Teams Dominate the Requests for Big Data
I read an article this week about Big Data. The article is based on a Microsoft survey and states that the most dominate users of Big Data are Sales, Marketing and Customer Support. You can view the...
View ArticlePagination in SQL Server 2012
When dealing with any product that has been around for a while, it’s not uncommon to observe a progression of common tasks becoming less clumsy as the tools mature. In this post, I take a look at how...
View ArticleHiMSS13; Meriter on MicrosoftBI and Epic Integration
I’m in New Orleans, LA this week for the annual HiMSS Conference and Microsoft Health User Group Meeting (MSHUG). The MSHUG meeting on Sunday March 3rd gave Healthcare Providers the opportunity to...
View ArticleUnlocking Epic EMR Data with SharePoint and SQL Server
Forbes had an interesting article this week – An Interview with the Most Powerful Woman in Health Care. The woman is Judy Faulkner, CEO of Epic Systems. According to KLAS’ 2012 Best in KLAS Report,...
View ArticleLync Server 2013 SQL Mirroring “Gotcha” – Must Read
For quite some time now, I’ve been working on a global design/deployment where there are multiple pools located throughout the globe. Throughout this design, I’ve seen the flexibility of Lync Server...
View ArticleSharePoint Development Environment Database Optimization script
So if you are like me you have more development VMs than SSD space and do everything you can to keep your VM space down. One of the biggest things you can do is set your database options to Simple...
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Creating Dynamic OLAP cubes from Custom Field data, pt. 1
A source system that contains dynamic or customer-defined data fields is both an old problem and a sticky one in the DW/BI environment. A standard approach of flattening the dynamic data into...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s Power BI: a peek at the future?
So, have you heard about Power BI yet? The whiz-bang new cloud-centric BI front end tool from Microsoft? Well, this video from the 2013 WPC breaks down the story — in a very entertaining manner…...
View ArticleAdvanced Data Integration with SSIS
Over the past few years, I have had the privilege of working with some of the world’s largest companies in a variety of industries. One thing in common with all of these engagements was using SQL...
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Creating Dynamic OLAP cubes from Custom Field data, pt. 2
Last time, we discussed arriving at a BI/DW solution for the problem of source application “Custom Fields.” This time, I want to look at the OLAP design, and the mechanisms that make it work in...
View ArticleMicrosoft Cloud BI: An Introduction
As with “All Things Cloud” for the last year or so, Cloud BI is a subject of much buzz. But if you look around, aside from a few niche vendors that have developed Software as a Service (SaaS) and...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s Power BI: just another hugely compelling feature
This article was pointed out to me by a colleague, and I found it a pretty compelling read: How Microsoft helped this bar figure out that vodka was costing it a fortune. Of particular interest to me...
View ArticleMicrosoft Cloud BI: Azure Data Services for BI?
In my first post in this series, I talked a little about the basics of cloud BI and Microsoft’s Windows Azure public cloud platform. I gave a brief glimpse of what services Azure offers for BI. So...
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