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MS BI Conference: Monday Keynote
Here are my notes on the Monday morning keynote: About 3000 attendees at the conference, over 60 countries represented. There is BI in Halo3: whenever you look at competitor stats or weapon effectiveness, this is implemented using BI tech Madison - MS...

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MS BI Conference 2008 - First Impressions
It has been over a year since I last blogged, but I want to restart with some posts about the BI Conference I am attending this week. Chris and I flew to Vancouver yesterday and drove down to Seattle in a Camry Hybrid. Sitting in the lineup at the US...

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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... If you want to rename a Build Type that you have created in a Team System Project, you need to open the Source Control Explorer window, dig down into the TeamBuildTypes folder under the project, and rename...

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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...

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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. This was a great session - two slides in total I think. All demos, and the demos were different - kinda crazy...

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MS BI Conference 12: MOSS 2007
A rolling stone grows no MOSS. This guy was very MOSSy, because he didn't roll very much. I was nodding off in this session because the presenter wasn't very passionate, or funny, or showing me anything that hadn't already been shown in the...

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MS BI Conference 11: chalk talk on MDX
Two thumbs down. Well, it probably was a great session, but I got there five minutes early, and already there was 30 people waiting outside the "room" it was in. So I went for lunch instead. Chalk talks are the 2nd or 3rd class citizens in the...

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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. "Interface to insight" - answering the WHY? in BI. Tools for decision makers to explore large amounts...

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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.) SQL 2005 SP2 includes stuff for Excel for data mining. This tool takes...

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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...

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