QuerySimon
Yet another blog about BI
Analytics over streaming data reference architecture
More and more companies want to build real-time analytics that enables them to do analysis over a...
Date: 01/26/2015
Book review: Machine Learning Hands-On for Developers and Technical Professionals
The third book that I finished this vacation were Machine Learning Hands-On for Developers and...
Date: 01/01/2015
Book review: Data Scientists at Work
Second book that I read this vacation is Data Scientists at Work by Sebastian Gutierrez published by...
Date: 12/31/2014
Book review: Predictive Analytics with Microsoft Azure Machine Learning
Right now I am on an extended holiday and I have had some time to tick of some books from my reading...
Date: 12/27/2014
Preview of Power BI dashboards is available and book promotion
Couple of things before vacation starts first the Power BI preview has been released. It contains...
Date: 12/19/2014
Big Data patterns
Big data is the buzz of the day, many talk about it but few have done anything with the technology....
Date: 07/02/2014
SQL Bits UK
This summer I am attending and speaking at several conferences. Most of them are internal to...
Date: 06/30/2014
Interested in learning more about Analysis Services 2012?
As you all know I published a book about Getting Started with SQL Server 2012 Cube Development...
Date: 03/20/2014
Creating a BI test machine in the cloud and allowing anonymous access to it
I got a question from a colleague that wanted to know how he could create and connect anonymously to...
Date: 11/01/2013
New book, new job
The reason that this blog has been awfully quite for the past months is that I have written a book...
Date: 10/10/2013
Installing the BI features of SharePoint 2013
Now that SharePoint 2013 and SQL Server 2012 SP1 have been released I thought about revisiting my...
Date: 11/25/2012
Running SQL Server 2012 and earlier versions on Windows Server 2012
I have got a lot of questions on how to install and run SQL Server on Windows Server 2012. Now we...
Date: 11/10/2012
SQL 2012 Service Pack 1 is released
Now during SQL PASS they have announced the availability of SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 1 (SP1)....
Date: 11/07/2012
Using the Bing API to geocode data in SSIS
During my talk at SQLRally Nordic Bringing maps to SQL Server I showed how to geocode data in SSIS....
Date: 10/23/2012
Running SharePoint and BI services in the cloud
I have been thinking about writing a post about this for a long time. However now a new whitepaper...
Date: 09/17/2012
PASS SQLRally 2012 Nordic here we come
Be sure to attend the PASS SQLRally 2012 in Copenhagen. You have the opportunity to listen to the...
Date: 08/14/2012
PPS future in SharePoint 2013
The development team have released a new blog post outlining the improvements that have been made...
Date: 08/09/2012
Installing the BI features of SharePoint 2013 Preview
I have now added a new post on how to install the BI features in the released version of SharePoint...
Date: 07/24/2012
Creating your first PowerPivot Workbook in Excel 2013 Preview
Please note I am not a member of the Dev team. My posts are just things that I have found when...
Date: 07/23/2012
SQL Server 2012 has been released
More information can be found on https://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/sqlserver/
Date: 03/06/2012
Will you be at SQL Rally Nordic?
I got my session submission accepted to SQL Rally Nordic. I will be speaking about how to...
Date: 08/30/2011
Enabling Crescent in SharePoint 2010
If you followed my earlier post...
Date: 07/22/2011
Installing SharePoint 2010 together with Denali CTP3
Now that Denali CTP3 is out I would like to setup a complete demo environment on one of my VM’s for...
Date: 07/18/2011
Problems with the SSAS Tabular Model Projects Denali CTP3 samples
UPDATE: The samples have been refreshed if you experience this problem please download the samples...
Date: 07/15/2011
First impressions installing Denali CTP3 SSAS
Now that Denali CTP3 have been released to the public I wanted to post a blog post of the...
Date: 07/13/2011
SharePoint 2010 SP1 is here, what’s in it for BI
The new service pack for SharePoint 2010 has been released to the web as communicated in the...
Date: 07/06/2011
How to control allocations when using write-back in Excel 2010
One of the first questions that I usually gets when showing write-back in Excel 2010 to Analysis...
Date: 05/22/2011
Handling Dates in PowerPivot
Recently a former colleague contacted me on how to format dates in PowerPivot. She had a date column...
Date: 05/10/2011
Writeback to Analysis Services cubes from Excel 2010
Analysis Services have had write back functionality for a long time; however there has been no...
Date: 03/03/2011