Channel 9 has two videos up about Project Gemini And Project Madison. These two videos will give you a good overview what Gemini and Madison are all about. Both videos are available in a variety of formats

Introduction to SQL Server Project Madison

The SQL Server team is working on a new project code-named “Madison”. "Madison" is a highly scalable data warehouse appliance that delivers performance at low cost through massively parallel processing (MPP). How does it work? What's the story? Well, "Madison" Product Unit Manage...

I installed Office 2010 last night and already I am liking it a lot after using it for about 30 minutes. There are some time savers in this release that will come in handy. This will be just a short post and I will only cover Excel 2010 and Word 2010.

The first new thing I noticed is that you can customize the ribbon now very easy. Another handy thing is that when you hit print, you get the print preview right away.

Install finished



The first image is the one that pops up after you have installed Office 2010

For a long time I have had to make web reports for our company that could be exported to excel. This is a fairly easy process. All you have to do is put your report in an HTML table and add the following 2 lines of code:

If you ever get the question from someone why excel is dividing the number by 100 for no aparent reason, Well then I have the answer ;-)

In Excel 2003 goto Tools > Options > Edit > Fixed decimal places. Chances are that that little checkbox is checked.

In excel 2007 they changed the description (automaticaly insert a decimal point) for that checkbox and ...

PerformancePoint Server To Become PerformancePoint Services In SharePoint Server

Microsoft is consolidating the scorecard, dashboard, and analytical capabilities from PerformancePoint Server into SharePoint Server as PerformancePoint Services, making these capabilities available to millions of SharePoint users around the world.

See the announcement here: http://blogs.msdn.com/bi/archive/2009/01/23/microsoft-bi-strategy-update.aspx

You can also watch a video of the announcem...