PowerPivot has the ability to import millions of rows of data into Excel 2010 for purposes of analyzing, slicing and dicing. However, even though you can import vast amounts of data you may not always want to. There are many reasons for this. You may...

Last Saturday I not only attended but presented at SharePoint Saturday Birmingham. First I have to give Terry Webster a shout out, he did a fantastic job organizing and running the event. I learned a lot, although I admit I felt a bit like a fish out...

What is PowerPivot? Well according to Microsoft: “PowerPivot is Microsoft Self-Service Business Intelligence” I can see from the glazed looks you are giving your monitor that was clear as mud. So let’s step back a bit and first define what...

I’m a big fan of the Kimball method of Data Warehousing. A common task most of us setting up a new Data Warehouse face is creating a Date Dimension. In their book, “The Microsoft Data Warehouse Toolkit With SQL Server 2005 and the Microsoft...

I’m currently at the SQL PASS Summit in Seattle Washington. At today’s Birds of a Feather lunch I’ll be acting as host for a table. Our subject is Full Text Searching and FileStreaming. If you’d like to learn more about either of these topics...