What is BI? There are a lot of definitions for what business intelligence stands for and what scope it encompasses, in fact, the definition seems to depend on your entry point into the business intelligence arena – implementer, consumer, maintainer, etc. What pushed me to make an entry on this subject is a discussion I…
I spend a lot of my time working with great companies that want to get better. They keep striving for how they can improve incrementally in all areas of endeavor. It it this passion for "baby steps" rather than the "grand slam" that makes them great. I call it "continuous improvement" other call it "restlessness",…
If you cannot wait for the Conference DVD the recorded sessions are available on the SharePoint Conference Web site through MySPC. http://www.mssharepointconference.com The DVDs will be sent in the mail to all attendees and available for purchase by those of you how could not attend.
Wandering through the Seattle airport on the way back home this morning I noticed a few things that cause me to stop and ask, who is this sign for? Oh sure, I understand the top one, but this is outside the bar inside the secure zone of the airport. Just makes you stop and ask…
The 2008 MVP Global Summit has just wrapped up and what a phenomenal experience. This year was my second Summit and I have a much deeper understanding of how Microsoft uses our feedback to build better products. The MVP community meets once a year for several days of face-to-face interaction with the product group to…
Often times during the course of a development project you may want to easily obtain the PublicKeyToken used to sign the assembly. Most people will add the assembly to the GAC and then use the properties dialog to copy out the information needed to register the assembly with its complete signature. This is especially true…
In my prior post, I covered some of the basics of defragmenting your indexes – an essential for database performance maintenance. But for some, the question may more likely be: how do I even get to indexes? I have seen so many situations where indexes are an afterthought, and lucky if they even get applied…
Whew – it’s been a while since I last posted (not to mention my postings this year have been a little sparse), but I am now settled back in Austin, Texas after having spent the last two years down in San Antonio. My wife and I have been busy selling the house down there, getting…
I have created a project on CodePlex for sharing the XSL samples I have created in my search demonstrations. I have ideas for other samples that I will post as I have time to develop them. If anyone out there is interested in participating just download a sample so you can review how I documented…
I often find that after I migrate a site from one URL to another the publishing pages retain their reference to the original page layouts. This causes a problem when you try to open the Page Settings page. Fellow MVP Gary Lapointe has written a number of STSADM Custom Extensions and solved this problem with…
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