I recently presented a free webinar for Pragmatic Works Free Training on the T’s about new Business Intelligence features in SharePoint 2013. If you attended I want to say thank you. It’s always a fun time presenting and the audience is always a lot of fun to interact with before presenting. If you were unable to join the session here is a link to the recording that you can watch for...
February 28, 2014
Webinar Q&A: New BI Features in SharePoint 2013
28February
December 30, 2013
A New Year is Right Around the Corner
30December
If you read my 2013 Year In Review you may be here today wondering why I haven’t posted anything despite my stated desire to blog more over the next year. Well, it’s not because I’m waiting until after the new year or anything like that….well, not that may sound a little bit like a lie given my reasoning…I’ve simply been on vacation for the last week and a half...
December 6, 2013
Presentation Update: New BI Features in SharePoint 2013
06December
It’s time for another free webinar!! Whether you like it or not SharePoint is here to stay! With every release of SQL Server or SharePoint (which follow different release cycles) the feature set for Business Intelligence professionals gets more fragmented and more complicated. If I want to get Feature A what combination of SQL Server and SharePoint do I need? All valid questions. I’ll...
December 5, 2013
Presentation Update: Change Data Capture (CDC) Made Easy With SSIS 2012
05December
Come get your learn on with Pragmatic Works and myself! In January I’ll be dropping some knowledge about change data capture and how to consume it with SSIS. CDC is one of the features I wish more of my clients were leveraging. It makes doing incremental loads dramatically more simplified. In this session I’ll show you quickly how to enable CDC then how to use SSIS to consume the data...
December 4, 2013
Year In Review: 2013
04December
Ok, so it’s not quite the end of the year yet. I figured I would get a head start on things. Who says that this type of post has to come on January 1st though? Well here goes. Let’s talk a little bit about what has happened in the last year and some of my goals for the next year. First Quarter I started the year out right by going skiing in Colorado at Breckenridge. For the last few...
December 2, 2013
Webinar Q&A: Practical SSAS: Getting Started with Analysis Services
02December
A couple of weeks ago I did two webinars for the Pragmatic Works Free Training on The T’s. The first was a session on how to load a data warehouse with SSIS. The followup session was about getting started with SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS). You can find the link to the recording here. The Q&A can be found below. Enjoy. Q: Can I run SSAS Tabular and SSAS Multidimensional side by...
December 2, 2013
Webinar Q&A: Practical SSAS: Getting Started with Analysis Services
A couple of weeks ago I did two webinars for the Pragmatic Works Free Training on The T’s. The first was a session on how to load a data warehouse with SSIS. The followup session was about getting started with SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS). You can find the link to the recording here. The Q&A can be found below. Enjoy. Q: Can I run SSAS Tabular and SSAS Multidimensional side by...
December 2, 2013
Webinar Q&A: SSIS Design Patterns for Loading a Data Warehouse
I’m not going to sugar coat it. I’ve been a bit of a slacker lately. Unfortunately I didn’t get the Q&A for my two webinars up the week I did the presentations. So here is part 1 and the SSAS post will be separate. To start with, thank you for joining if you did attend the webinar. All of us at Pragmatic Works that do the webinars really do it because we enjoy giving back to...
October 8, 2013
Setting the Default View on a SharePoint Library
08October
There could be a number of reasons why you would want to change the default view on a SharePoint library. Perhaps you created a new view and want to make it the default. Maybe you created a PowerPivot library and don’t have Silverlight installed. The list could go on. Luckily setting the default view is really simple. Navigate to the library which you would like to change the default view...
October 7, 2013
SSIS Tips and Tricks Q&A
07October
Thank you to everyone who attended my webinar on SSIS Tips and Tricks on October 3, 2013. The link to the recording can be found here. You can also check out all the Pragmatic Works Free Training videos here. I had several people ask about PASS Summit. So here is a link to the Summit page (). It is being held in Charlotte, NC in just a couple of weeks, October 15th to October 18th. There were...
