DMReview – Opening The Portal DMReview has had some great resources on business intelligence and how the IT world works through issues – from compliance to industry trends, to information about industry moves, you can find a great series of resources on DMReview. Register for your free access here. Working with Management and Best Practices Last week I wrote asking […]

Featured Article(s) Offline Cube Files How to report against an Analysis Services cube without a connection to the server? MS Excel provides the concept of Offline Cubes to facilitate this need. Microsoft Certified IT Pro Working on the new certification? Interested in it? You’ll want to take a look at LearnKey’s interactive Video Training – it’s a great way to […]

Great Whitepaper Available Working with SSIS? If so, check out the white paper we have in the library that talks about how you can use SSIS to do quite a bit more than just an import of your data. Tips, tricks and lot more — learn about why SSIS really does the ETL – Extract, Transport and Load for SQL […]

Featured Article(s) Best practices of synchronizing threads There might be situations in your applications where multiple threads are accessing the same data at the same point in time. Some may be updating the data, some reading them, etc. In such situations, you need to synchronize the access to this data, mostly because if multiple threads are accessing the same data […]

Featured Article(s) Tips for using SQL Server 2005 bulk copy Here are some helpful tips to performance tune and optimize SQL Server 2005 bulk copy. Changing DBAs… In continuing the look at the need to move into new technologies (or the perceived need anyway), I wanted to pass along a couple more notes from SSWUG readers. From Brandon: "I have […]