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You may have noticed a real dearth of posts over the last couple of months. That’s been a function of two things: I’ve been very busy at work with the release of Vivid, our Excel OLAP client, and working on … Continue reading →

As noted by Matt Masson from the Integration Services team, not much has changed in SSIS 2008 R2. In fact, R2 is pretty much identical, with the exception of the ADO.NET Destination. So if you are developing packages, you can … Continue reading →

The issue I ran into was this: I was in Design mode of a report that I was developing. No matter what I did to change the column width on my columns, in both Preview as well as when I … Continue reading →

I’ll be presenting a couple of sessions at the Carolina Code Camp on Saturday, May 15th. This will be my second time presenting at the Carolina Code Camp, and I’m looking forward to it. Last time, I had great audience … Continue reading →

The topic for T-SQL Tuesday #006 is LOB data, selected by this month’s host, Michael Coles. If you aren’t familiar with T-SQL Tuesdays, Michael has a nice summary in his post. In database terms, LOBs are Large OBjects, also referred … Continue reading →

I ran across this issue a while back and figured I’d blog about my findings. After running my issue through Google, it turns out that I wasn’t the only one with this same problem. In SSRS, you can use the … Continue reading →

I’ll be presenting at the Triad Developers Guild on Tuesday. The presentation will be on Developing Custom Components for SSIS, a topic I’ve spoken on a few times before. Here’s the abstract: “SSIS data flows are great tools for moving … Continue reading →

I’ve been meaning to post about this ever since I saw Jamie’s post on “The SQL Developer Gap”. I couldn’t agree more with what Jamie expressed. Prior to getting into serious BI development, I was primarily an application developer. This … Continue reading →