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How to rename a Build Type in Team System (and a suggested naming convention)
I suppose this might be in the manual, but...
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MS BI Conference 14: Evening Reception
The evening reception was at the Experience Music Project/SciFi Museum Hall of Fame. Gary and I walked through the SciFi Museum. It was really great, lots of memorabilia from all the TV series, movies, as well as books, comics, magazines, scripts, photos, videos. Really cool. The only underrepresentaed Sci Fi series was Dr. Who - I saw one thing from that, the "Fun Gun". No Daleks. Gary has read a lot of sci-fi I found out.
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MS BI Conference 13: BI Power Hour
Apparently the Power Hour has been something that has been happening at TechEd in past years. I vaguely recall seeing something about it once.
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MS BI Conference 12: MOSS 2007
A rolling stone grows no MOSS.
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MS BI Conference 11: chalk talk on MDX
Two thumbs down.
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MS BI conference 10: ProClarity
A woman who was formerly from ProClarity, now a product manager in the Performance Point Server group, presented this session on ProClarity.
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MS BI Conference 9: Thursday keynote
This morning's first keynote had content about Katmai, the next release of SQL Server. (there was other stuff before that, about the BI platform and pervasiveness and yadda yadda.)
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MS BI Conference 7: Wednesday evening
The evening was the Partner Pavillion Expo reception. Open bar and light supper and you wander around the booths. Microsoft has areas where you can talk with the product managers. They have tables marked "Reporting and Analysis", "Integration and Data Warehousing", "Database engine", "ProClarity", "Performance Point Server", yadda yadda yadda. I wanted to talk to some of them from the Analysis Services team, to talk about the mutli-developer scenarios that I had been going through with my customer, and some of the problems I have had with team development in Analysis services. But I couldn't tell which guys were the SSAS ones, which MS people were just wandering around themselves, and I'm not great at starting up conversations with people I don't know anyway. And I wasnt' with anyone who would help bolster my courage. So I wandered around the tables, looking like I wanted to talk to someone if only they would come up to me and introduce themselves. It sounds stupid I know.
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MS BI Conference 6: Chalk Talk on SQL Server Integration Services - moving from Dev to Test to Prod
This was the best session of the day for me. The guy from SQM (Solid Quality Mentors) was Spanish with a thick accent, but I found him easy enough to understand. Again, the chalk talk venue was bad, couldn't hear or see, so I sat in the front row.
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MS BI Conference 5: Practical Design Techniques for SQL Server Analysis Services
This was a level 300 session.
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MS BI Conference 4: Best Practices for Migration to Microsoft BI
This was a joint presentation by Ideaca (a Canadian consulting company) and General Mills Canada. I went for the CanCon I guess.
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MS BI Conference 3: MDM Chalk Talk
The chalk talks are held in the main exhibition hall, "rooms" with about 50 chairs in them, fabric drapes enclosing them, with a small sound system and a large monitor (small widescreen TV size) on a stand at the front.
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MS BI Conference 2 - Gartner session
A guy from the Gartner group talked on "Building a Plan of Success and avoiding the Five Fatal Flaws of Business Intelligence".
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Microsoft Business Intelligence Conference, Wednesday Keynote
I'm going to brain-dump my notes from the BI conference I am attending. They may or may not make sense to you, and if they don't, sorry about that. It's mostly a way for me to retain what I am getting from this conference.