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Master data managment (MDM)
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I had a session on Windays 2008 regarding Microsofts upcoming product. Session couldnt really be about specifics since the product is not in beta yet, but two things surprised me.
First, number of people that showed up, it was really nice to see that there was significant interest in the session. I was a bit worried about this since the subject is mostly enterprise related and not really all that known to a general public.
Second, responsivness. Number of questions raised and a general flow of the session were really great, since as i said, session didnt really handle the specifics. General info was obviously interesting enough to spark some discussions there.
For those of you unfamiliar about the subject, or the product, Microsoft bought company Stratature and is now developing an integrated version. Sharepoint seems to be the point where the new application will be available, but details at:
http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint/mdm/default.mspx
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Windays 2008 preconf: Microsoft BI
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I had lots of fun during preconf session, but it wasn't easy.
Format isnt really something I find easy to do, one day event talking about Microsoft BI offering. I did a 3 days, 2 days and 45 minutes sessions, but 1 day? I've found it hard to say enough but not too much.
Fortunatelly, attendees were very cool and responsive so it came down to discussions and experience sharing for the significant part of the day. I hope people found it usefull, we went from basics (definitions) to new cool stuff 2008 brings regarding the whole BI stack.
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Windays 2008
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Ill be in Opatija from 20.4. to 25.4. on Windays 2008 (http://www.microsoft.com/croatia/windays/default.mspx). I will be doing a preconf day (BI) and two sessions on wednesday (data warehousing and master data managment). If you are near or attending feel free to say hi.
You can also find me at the AtE part of the conference if you have any questions.
I would highly recommend going on PnP sessions on friday. Those are community based sessions and almost always one of the best you can see there.
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Trouble with decimals
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Finally I got around on writing something about decimal trouble one of my clients had.
Heres the sample code:
declare @q decimal (38,20), @r decimal(38,20), @e decimal (38,20)
select @q = 1.234761818, @r = 2.234523464
select @e = @q * @r
select @e
Can you guess at the results? Feel free to run the script, you will get a result. Now, is it correct or not? If not, why not? And whats going on here anyway?
Let me give you a hint and leave with that for now, ill come back with the answer. Hint? Try putting on the first line
SET
NUMERIC_ROUNDABORT ON
have fun!
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Codecamp Zagreb
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I had a pleasure to be part of the codecamp in Zagreb organized by Vladan Strigo (http://codecamp.mscommunity.net/Predavanja.aspx). Did a session there but thats not what I want to blog about.
Whole event from the conception to the execution was incredibly fun. Other participants and me had a blast discussing the possibilities and what to do way before the event was even near.
When the event started, I really enjoyed it, session quality was very high and I can safely say that the content would easily fit a larger conference with different tracks all around. Number would say that all sessions was full and that there were something like 5 MVPs doing presentations there. But the numbers do not show the positive feeling of the event that managed to bring the best out of all of us.
Really incredible event, I hope Vladan would let me come next time. Any place, any time.
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MS SQL 2005 cluster install
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Today I had loads of fun installing the SQL on a cluster. While the installation procedure is quite simple, preparation and any kind of debugging is certainly not. If you prepare at all and if you have a windows admin handling the OS part for you there really shouldnt be any surprises right? Wrong!
I got through all prep/add and configure MSDTC/install anything thats missing/adjust permissions stuff and got to the point of the actuall installation. It failed on the passive node with 'access denied on setup.exe' or something similar in the task scheduler log. Now, I did check if the service is running and everything I did was with the same windows account (administrator offcourse). Tried some fancy stuff and went to install process again. Failed with same error. I really really wasnt happy at that point.
Third time it went through without any problems. Why? Well, I had a remote connection open on the passive node. After I logged off, the installation worked. Why? I have no idea, feel free to educate me. What does the remote connection on pasive has with installation on active (okay so its actually starting the install on pasive as well but so what)?
After that everything went fine, installed additional services, sp2 and other stuff. I just hope it still works tomorrow :).