Posted by Russell on January - 30 - 2010
Noticed that Gartner’s MQ for Business Intelligence is now out there for 2010: http://www.gartner.com/technology/media-products/reprints/microsoft/vol10/article7/article7.html Compared to 2009, it appears that Microsoft (yay!), Oracle, and MicroStrategy moved up and to the right in the leader’s quadrant. http://www.gartner.com/technology/media-products/reprints/sas/vol5/article8/article8.html Of all the players in the MQ, it looks like Actuate is the big loser – it made a pretty big move down and to the left in the niche quadrant.
Posted by Russell on January - 30 - 2010
There are reports that the SSAS archive out on http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=868662dc-187a-4a85-b611-b7df7dc909fc is corrupt….”damaged, truncated, or has been changed”, to exact 
To open it, simpl
Posted by Russell on January - 27 - 2010
For those of you who attended SQL PASS or other recent Microsoft-related technical conferences, you may have seen our new BI “Contoso” demo. Well, the data that powers it has now been made available for download. You’ll find both an OLTP DW and an OL
Posted by Russell on January - 23 - 2010
Over on the Forrester Blog, Boris Evelson has written an interesting post about the real cost of creating a single BI report in the enterprise. He estimates a price tag of between $1,840 and $20K per report after one factors in expenditures on softwa
Posted by Russell on January - 21 - 2010
Over the week-end I was doing some analysis on SQL Server disk usage, and wanted to be able to display current disk usage by database. Up to this point, I’d mainly been doing a SUM over my measures. Well, that would make no sense in this scenario -
Posted by Russell on January - 19 - 2010
Looks like May! http://blogs.technet.com/dataplatforminsider/archive/2010/01/19/sql-server-2008-r2-gets-an-official-date.aspx
