Paul Mooney : Thursday, December 14, 2006

Thursday, December 14, 2006 - Posts

Clear, Confident, Connected

Windows Vista is ready, but it will never be complete the process of improvement adding features and applications to the platform will continue.

Windows Vista will enable a new generation of hardware from multi-core CPU’s and GPU’s, terabyte drives and HD playback and record to make our lives a little bit easier and more exciting.

Any similarities to the look and feel of OSX can be traced to the Team at Frog Design and remember too that all GUI’s own a debt of gratitude to Xerox Park research of the '70’s.

Anything lacking in Windows Vista is an opportunity for ISV's to create software applications to filfill a need and there are thousands of us the world over doing just that.

posted Thursday, December 14, 2006 10:56 AM by paul with 0 Comments

SQL Server 2005 OLAP

Andrew Brust is a community champion, I ran into him at 8am in NYC just before his Keynote at the Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals Launch, then twelve hours and thirty miles later at our N3UG meeting in Parsippany NJ.

SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services, with its Unified Dimensional Model, has turbo-charged its OLAP capabilities. OLAP solutions in SQL 2005 are incredibly useful to business because they’re more powerful than their SQL 2000 counterparts, easier to develop, and can be based on real-time or near-real time data. This session will show you how to use new Visual Studio designers to create OLAP cubes, and then acquaint you with powerful new features like .NET CLR stored procedures, Key Performance Indicators, Perspectives, Translations and pro-active caching.