SQL Server and BI in US Education

New version of PowerPivot Available

Regardless of your skill set or title, DBA, developer, analyst…Get familiar with PowerPivot. ...

Author: keward Date: 10/28/2010

PowerPivot – Moving from a Single Server to Multiple Server Deployment

Over the past several months I have been working with customers and setting up a number of custom...

Author: keward Date: 06/11/2010

PowerPivot Install requires Office 2010 Shared Features

Recently I have been enjoying using the new Powerpivot addin for Excel.  I had to rebuild my...

Author: keward Date: 12/09/2009

Upgrading SQL Server from 32bit to 64bit

Recently I have been seeing a lot requests for guide to upgrade SQL Server from x86 to x64 as...

Author: keward Date: 10/15/2009

Which version of SQL 2008 do you use?

As the school year winds down and summer projects for education customers heat up I am getting...

Author: keward Date: 06/10/2009

SQL Server 2008 SP1 Available

If you haven’t seen the dozens of blog post already, SQL 2008 SP1 is available at...

Author: keward Date: 04/08/2009

Proclarity Bits not included with PerformancePoint Media

This seems to be a topic that frequently comes up so I want to get a quick post out on it. I was...

Author: keward Date: 01/12/2009

Reporting Services 2005 Setup on Vista/Windows 2008

HAPPY 2009!!!  Quick blurb on New Year's resolutions - More frequent blog posts that contain...

Author: keward Date: 01/02/2009

SQL Server and Virtualization

It is official. You can run SQL Server 2005/2008 in virutalized environment and still be within...

Author: keward Date: 10/08/2008

Sharepoint and SQL Server 2008

Been asked lately for reasons to upgrade your SharePoint database server(s) to SQL Server 2008. I am...

Author: keward Date: 09/23/2008

i have finally given in...therefore I blog.

Yep. This is my first blog post ever. I have never even commented on someone else's post before. To...

Author: keward Date: 09/23/2008