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Microsoft has made the sessions presented on SQL Server Day 2009 available on Chopsticks Opening Keynote by Wesley Backelant and Ritchie Houtmeyers Best Practices for SQL Server Consolidation by Tom Van Mulders Breaking the ETL world record with Integration Services by Henk van der Valk Designing Effective Aggregations in Analysyis Services 2008 by Chris Webb [...]
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I recently struggled with the following challenge in Analysis Services: In one of the fact tables there was a field duration which actually was a duration of a certain status in seconds. I needed to display this in a readable format, like “2 days 22:15:59″. bing brought me to the following great article, where Mosha explains how [...]
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Today I wanted to start playing around with the new Report Manager of SQL 2008 R2. After installing and configuring R2, I opened Internet Explorer and entered the URL of the Report Manager. In my case: http://localhost/reports_r2 I got a very empty Report Manager : Okay, something is wrong. I tried to connect to http://localhost/reportserver_r2 : No [...]
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