September 2011 - Posts

• So Many Choices, but Only One of Me! PASS Summit 2011 Picks

  It’s that time of year again when the anticipation of the upcoming PASS Summit begins to build. My first attempt at using the Summit Schedule Builder by selecting the various topics of interest to me resulted in extreme overbooking. Sigh… Now I really Read More... Posted Friday, September 23, 2011 11:08 AM by smisner | 1 Comments Filed under: PASS

• Back to the Future with MDX and PASS

  An interesting confluence of events this week takes me both back to the past as I ponder the future! What gives? Well, the recent release of Tomislav Piasevoli’s ( blog | twitter ) new book, MDX with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Analysis Services Cookbook, Read More... Posted Friday, September 09, 2011 2:22 PM by smisner | 0 Comments Filed under: MDX, PASS

• 24HOP: BI Workload Follow-Up

  Yesterday, Denny Cherry ( blog | twitter ) and I co-presented a 24HOP session for the Fall 2011 lineup , “So How Does the BI Workload Impact the Database Engine?” 24HOP stands for 24 Hours of PASS and is a semiannual roundup of speakers from the SQL Server Read More... Posted Thursday, September 08, 2011 10:16 AM by smisner | 5 Comments Filed under: PASS, SSIS