Archive for November, 2011

Presenting tonight…

In a few minutes, I’m packing up to head to Greenville, SC to work from the first WiFi-enabled sandwich shop I can find. Tonight I’m presenting at the SQL Server Innovators Guild on the subject of Very Large DataBases, but I’ve still got a few hours of work ahead of me. If you’re in the [...]

November 1, 2011 · stuart · No Comments
Posted in: Conferences, SQL

AtlantaMDF Reviews

Kick some SSAS - Expert Cube Development with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services 2010-08-06

Recently finished (cover-cover) reading of Expert Cube Development with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services. Since then I've gone through a number of chapters several times as topics aligned themselves with work efforts. Looking at this book today, I noticed the covers are all curled, the pages dog-eared, and yellow highlighter is visible across […]

DBAMark

SharePoint 2007 Developer’s Guide to Business Data Catalog 2009-11-24

SharePoint 2007 developer’s Guide to Business Data Catalog is an essential guide to anyone who wishes to become proficient in building complex SharePoint applications. This book starts off assuming that the reader is a complete beginner to BDC, and explains in detail what it is. Soon afterwards, the reader is taught what can be done with it and how.The book […]

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The Art of Unit Testing 2009-11-08

As a Database Architect, I often work with Object-Oriented Programmers, but thankfully don’t often have to code in other languages other than SQL. However, it is useful to understand the methods and basic frameworks by which my team members develop; hence, I decided to review Roy Osherove’s The Art of Unit Testing (Manning Press, 2009). Although many of th […]

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