 SQL Server 2012 Integration Services Design Patterns
For me, one of the great pleasures of working at Microsoft was shepherding new products from concept to release. However, it was even more fulfilling to witness the birth and growth of new communities of users, for what is a product without a user? Just bits and bytes on a disk. In my role as Group Product Manager of the SQL Server Integration... |  |  CMOS IC Layout: Concepts, Methodologies, and Tools
Once upon a time, around about 1988, after finishing a very stressful but successful
project within Motorola Semiconductor Israel (MSIL), the entire team was
invited to a special lunch. Everybody was happy that we finished the “project”
ahead of time, and we were there to enjoy the victory of “tape-out.”... |  |  Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services: The BISM Tabular Model
When we, the authors of this book, first learned what Microsoft’s plans were for Analysis Services in the SQL Server 2012 release, we were not happy. Analysis Services hadn’t acquired much in the way of new features since 2005, even though in the meantime it had grown to become the biggest-selling OLAP tool. It seemed as... |