Geeky Girl
Information about Microsoft SharePoint Server, SQL Server 2012, Business Intelligence and Office.
Books online for Power BI
The Microsoft Office website now has some books online resources for Power BI. Power BI Getting...
Date: 08/20/2013
Business Intelligence Sales Specialist Training
On Monday 15th April in Thames Valley Park, we are running another Sales Specialist Training day for...
Date: 04/10/2013
And now for something completely different
Some of you may know that I've written a couple of books. The first, Child of the Hive, is a sci-fi...
Date: 01/03/2013
SharePoint 2013 Snippet: SharePoint Designer Workflows
Happy New Year! Picking up where I left off last year, I’m going to talk about another change...
Date: 01/02/2013
SharePoint 2013 Snippet: Content Search Web Part
The Content Search Web Part is a new web part in SharePoint 2013 that lets you bring together data...
Date: 12/19/2012
SharePoint 2013 Snippet: Machine Translation Services
SharePoint 2013 brings in Machine Translation Services, which provides automatic content translation...
Date: 12/18/2012
SharePoint 2013 Snippet: User License Enforcement
In MOSS 2007 and SharePoint Server 2010, it’s technically possible to set up an environment so...
Date: 12/14/2012
SharePoint 2013 Snippets: Access Services
Access Services is an interesting topic in the 2013 context. When this was described to me, my first...
Date: 12/13/2012
SharePoint 2013 Snippets: Shredded Storage
I’ve been spending this week learning about SharePoint 2013 on the Ignite training. Partly in...
Date: 12/13/2012
SharePoint on Azure whitepaper
I've touched on this topic before but it's worth another mention because there's been a recent white...
Date: 09/25/2012
Business Intelligence Practice Accelerator
Starting on the 3rd September, Microsoft are running a Business Intelligence Practice Accelerator....
Date: 08/28/2012
PASS SQLRally Nordic 2012
Kamal Hathi, Microsoft Director of SQL Server Business Intelligence, will be delivering the keynote...
Date: 08/23/2012
Data Quality in SQL Server 2012 Part 5: Master Data Services Excel Add-In
In the previous post in this series (sorry for the delay), I talked about the Client for DQS. It...
Date: 08/16/2012
SharePoint Conference 2012 Giveaway
A company called Share Squared are running a competition to win a full conference pass to the...
Date: 08/16/2012
SharePoint on Azure
The PointBeyond blog recently posted an interesting piece on running SharePoint on Azure. This piece...
Date: 07/11/2012
PowerPivot: Sort by column
Sometimes there are measures which have an intrinsic order to them, such as days of the week or...
Date: 06/12/2012
DQS: Create a New Knowledge Base
[View:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXaXN5JHvGw] This is the first video I've done on Data Quality...
Date: 05/11/2012
Data Quality in SQL Server 2012 Part 4: Data Quality Services Client
Data Quality Services, introduced in the previous blog post, includes two main components: DQS...
Date: 04/05/2012
Data Quality in SQL Server 2012 Part 3: Introducing Data Quality Services
The previous two blog posts have been focusing on Master Data Services. Given the title of this...
Date: 03/28/2012
Data Quality in SQL Server 2012 Part 2: Introducing Master Data Services
In the previous blog post, I introduced the concept of Master Data Management as a methodology to...
Date: 03/27/2012
Data Quality in SQL Server 2012 Part 1: Introducing Master Data Management
Data quality is important and data quality mistakes can be expensive. Imagine a situation where a...
Date: 03/26/2012
Displaying the month in an InfoPath form
Someone asked this question on a discussion list and I thought the answer was one that others might...
Date: 03/01/2012
SQL Server 2012 Webcasts
Myself and colleagues (mostly Sam Solieman, but also will Thompson) have been running a series of...
Date: 01/31/2012
SQL Server 2012 Customers
The SQL Server team blog has posted recently about customers using SQL Server 2012 today. This post...
Date: 01/30/2012
SQL Server comments video
This nice video has people giving their comments on their favourite features of SQL Server 2012....
Date: 01/25/2012
International SharePoint Conference, London
I'm going to be speaking at the International SharePoint Conference in London on 23rd to 25th April....
Date: 01/24/2012
New SQL Server 2012 Demo
https://mssalesdemos.com now includes a demo machine for SQL Server 2012. This includes the Telco...
Date: 01/16/2012
Amazingly useful site
If you're a Microsoft partner and you've tried to find training courses and online learning offered...
Date: 01/09/2012
Playing with Power View
I've been playing around with Power View (formerly codename Project Crescent). I started with a...
Date: 11/23/2011
SharePoint: The Bigger Picture
I'm organising an event in Microsoft's London office on 5th December. The name of the event is...
Date: 11/14/2011
Two and a half minutes of awesome
These guys at SQL PASS presented on using Kinect to interact with SQL. Create databases by raising...
Date: 10/21/2011
SQL Server Enterprise vs Standard
SQL Server 2008 R2 comes with a lot of features and functionality. Even the Standard version has a...
Date: 10/05/2011
SQL Denali Demo Machine
SQL Server codename Denali is in beta and the third preview has been available for a little while,...
Date: 09/09/2011
SQL Bits 9: Query Across the Mersey
Registration is open for the 9th SQL Bits, this time being held in Liverpool. The conference runs...
Date: 08/15/2011
SQL Server Denali Product Guide
There is a new Product Guide available for SQL Server Codename Denali, the next version of SQL...
Date: 08/12/2011
BI Practice Accelerator
There is a new training offering for partners on Business Intelligence. The Practice Accelerator is...
Date: 06/20/2011
BI market growth
BI is a big opportunity for partners. Gartner recently released analysis of the BI market and found...
Date: 05/27/2011
Mythbusting: SQL Server is expensive
This isn’t nearly as common a myth as some of the others I’ve described so far in this...
Date: 05/24/2011
Mythbusting: SQL Server isn’t a market leader
In terms of big customers, Microsoft have been playing catch up with regard to databases. Some of...
Date: 05/20/2011
Mythbusting: SQL Server isn’t secure
This is a myth that Microsoft have been fighting against for years. Some bad history has left us...
Date: 05/18/2011
Mythbusting: SQL Server isn’t reliable
I started this series of posts talking about scalability and now I’ll talk about reliability....
Date: 05/17/2011
Mythbusting: SQL Server doesn’t scale
There are some stories and myths around SQL Server. Like a lot of myths, these stories may have some...
Date: 05/16/2011
Advanced Copy
Yesterday, I received my advanced copy of the new edition of Designing Electronic Forms for...
Date: 05/13/2011
Geeks in Delft: Day 6
The Escher museum Exploring the Hague Toasting stuff over the fire. Unfortunately, we've got to come...
Date: 05/01/2011
Geeks in Delft: Days 4 & 5
Playing board games until 2am. Exploring Delft by canoe. Translating the menu. Exploring by foot. On...
Date: 04/30/2011
Geeks in Delft: Day 3
Hacking is tiring work. Coding with chords. Hacking the bike. Playing with rafts again. It was bound...
Date: 04/28/2011
Geeks in Delft: Day 2
Playing on the assault course. Spotting a suspiciously familiar building at the university (it looks...
Date: 04/27/2011
Geeks in Delft: Day 1
Checking in at every station between St Pancras and Delft The girls' room. The smallest of the rooms...
Date: 04/26/2011
Custom Document Information Panel
This demo shows how to create and edit a custom Document Information Panel for SharePoint documents...
Date: 03/18/2011