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What Is Business Intelligence In Sql Server? A business intelligence tool is a tool for transforming raw data into information it can use to make decisions. SQL Server Business Intelligence (BI) ...

Microsoft released SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 2 this week and announced that it's available for download. The new service pack fixes some minor issues, and not much has apparently changed since ...

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Microsoft is offering users on Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 and SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 a way to keep getting security updates for free after the official support period ends. Read also: Here's ...

Because of my experience over the years with databases and DTS I've been tapped at work to investigate, plan out and implement our company's data warehouse (we're a small startup). The lead on the ...