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In working with SharePoint and with BI, we frequently found that there was no single source of information that could address the needs of both DBAs and SharePoint administrators and developers. In fairness, given the pace of the technology we deal with, it’s very difficult to find that one superhero who knows it all. But, in order to deliver solutions with these modern platforms, we sort of do need to know it all. We need to know core BI concepts as well as core SharePoint BI concepts. SharePoint is becoming the de facto choice for delivery of BI products for Microsoft. With SharePoint 2010, Microsoft introduced Visio Services, Business Connectivity Services, Reporting Services, a much-revamped Excel Services, and to top the cake, a completely revamped PerformancePoint Services. Pro.SharePoint.2010.Business.Intelligence.Solutions

Popular acceptance of the smartphone has brought technology once only previously imagined in science fiction to today’s reality. You can now use the small electronic device that used to be a simple cell phone to manage your calendar, listen to music, take pictures, provide maps and navigation, and browse the Internet—and still make a phone call. The technology that links you to the vast information store on the Internet any time and anywhere is perhaps the greatest revolution in information access the world has seen. Not only available to the developed nations where we expect to see high-end smartphones, these devices are also widely available indeveloping nations, where they are often the primary device people use to access the Internet.

So, you want to be an Android developer? Good, you’ve come to the right place. Whether you’re a dabbler, professional, hobbyist, or coding junkie, I hope you’ve picked up my book out of a desire to learn about the somewhat schizophrenic world that is mobile development.

Windows 7 Phone Secret

This book is for people, average users, not technical experts. I assume you have at least a passing familiarity with mobile phones like the iPhone or those based on Google Android, but it’s not a requirement. I assume you use a Windows-based PC, and not a Mac. (Though I will at least point out that, despite the incongruity of
using a device called Windows Phone in tandem with a Mac, it is at least possible for those who are interested in reverse switching. Yes, they’re out there.)

Projects are essentially defined as getting new things done, and as such they are risky. But is there really any similarity between getting new things done in, say, critical illness surgery and, say, building oil rigs? That is, is project management a general discipline, with general principles which apply to a wide variety of different kinds of industry? Yes, is the short answer. Of course, one would be insane to try to innovate in one kind of business without using available expertise, in other words, there are many things in projects that will vary from industry to industry, but there are also general principles.
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The Definitive Guide to Project Management

Using MSBuild and Team Foundation Build

Build has historically been kind of like a black art, in the sense that there are just a few people who know and understand build, and are passionate about it. But in today’s evolving environment that is changing. Now more and more people are becoming interested in build, and making it a part of their routine development activities.
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Using MSBuild and Team Foundation Build

Protecting SQL Server Data

Data is a form of currency. As members of society, we provide information about ourselves to gain access to services and goods that we desire. We collect information about others in order to market our services and obtain verification of identity. As Database Professionals it is our lifeblood. We labor daily to store, backup, transfer, transform, share, report, analyze and protect data. Ultimately, our primary concern is protection of the data’s integrity, availability and confidentiality.
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Protecting SQL Server Data

The Data Warehouse ETL Toolkit_Ralph Kimball

The Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) system is the foundation of the data warehouse. A properly designed ETL system extracts data from the source systems, enforces data quality and consistency standards, conforms data so that separate sources can be used together, and finally delivers data in a presentation-ready format so that application developers can build applications and end users can make decisions.
This book is organized around these four steps. The ETL system makes or breaks the data warehouse. Although building the ETL system is a back room activity that is not very visible to end users, it easily consumes 70 percent of the resources needed for implementation and maintenance of a typical data warehouse.
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The Data Warehouse ETL Toolkit_Ralph Kimball

Windows Communication Foundation 4 Step by Step

Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), alongside Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), has become part of the primary framework for building the next wave of business applications for the Microsoft Windows operating system WCF provides the underpinning technology driving distributed solutions based on the Microsoft platform; with it, you can build powerful service-oriented systems designed to address connected services and applications WCF is also an integral technology for building and accessing services running in the cloud under Windows Azure.
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Windows Communication Foundation 4 Step by Step