Are you looking around for some decent test data for your BI demos? Well, if so, Microsoft have provided some data about all medals won at the Olympics Games (1900 to 2008) at OlympicsData workbook - Excel, SSIS, Azure sample; it provides analysis over athletes, countries, medal type, sport, discipline and various other dimensions. The data has ...

Just wanted to drop a quick note to let people know that I will probably be pretty quiet on here for the next two weeks.  We leave tomorrow for Vancouver to spectate at several events at the Olympics, and won't be back until the end of the month. This means I will miss the MVP Summit, but I do plan to drive down to Redmond on Tuesday the ...