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Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Virtual Labs for BI

Ali Raza Zaidi — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 08:06:23 +0000

Want to learn BI with Sql Server 2008, you have to go through virtual labs. I found excellent links on msdn virtual lab page

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/cc138238

SQL Server 2008 R2 Virtual Labs

MSDN Virtual Lab: Building and Sharing Your First Report Builder 3.0 Report
MSDN Virtual Lab: Building and Sharing Your First SQL Server 2008 R2 PowerPivot for Excel Workbook
MSDN Virtual Lab: Building Your First Analytical Reporting Application with the Visual Studio 2010 ReportViewer Control
MSDN Virtual Lab: Building Your First Cube with SQL Server 2008 R2 Analysis Services
MSDN Virtual Lab: Building Your First Data Mining Model with SQL Server 2008 R2 Analysis Services
MSDN Virtual Lab: Building Your First Extract-Transform-Load Process with SQL Server 2008 R2 Integration Services
MSDN Virtual Lab: Building Your First Multidimensional Report with SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services
MSDN Virtual Lab: Building Your First Relational Report with SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services
MSDN Virtual Lab: Building Your First Semantic Model with the ADO.NET Entity Framework
MSDN Virtual Lab: Your First Look at SQL Server 2008 R2 Sample Databases
MSDN Virtual Lab: Building Your First Queries and Calculations with SQL Server 2008 R2 Analysis Services MDX
MSDN Virtual Lab: Building Your First Dashboard with SharePoint 2010 PerformancePoint Services
MSDN Virtual Lab: Visualizing Data with Maps in SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services
MSDN Virtual Lab: Developing with the Microsoft Chart Controls
MSDN Virtual Lab: Working with the SQL Server 2008 R2 StreamInsight Event Flow Debugger
MSDN Virtual Lab: Creating and Deploying a Data-Tier Application
MSDN Virtual Lab: Querying Events in SQL Server 2008 R2 StreamInsight using LINQ
MSDN Virtual Lab: Working with the SQL Server 2008 R2 StreamInsight Samples
MSDN Virtual Lab: Creating Reports with SQL Server PowerPivot for Excel 2010
MSDN Virtual Lab: Developing KPI’s and Scorecards with SharePoint 2010 PerformancePoint Services
MSDN Virtual Lab: Managing Excel 2010 PowerPivot Solutions in SharePoint 2010
MSDN Virtual Lab: Data Tier Applications in SQL Server 2008 R2 and Visual Studio 2010
MSDN Virtual Lab: Developing Reports and Dashboards with SharePoint 2010 PerformancePoint Services
MSDN Virtual Lab: Defining DAX Calculations with Excel 2010 PowerPivot
MSDN Virtual Lab: Loading and Preparing Data for Analysis in SQL Server PowerPivot for Excel 2010
MSDN Virtual Lab: Embedded Reporting in Applications with SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services and Visual Studio 2010
MSDN Virtual Lab: Working with ATOM Data Feeds in SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services
MSDN Virtual Lab: Developing and Consuming Report Libraries in SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services
MSDN Virtual Lab: Managing Change in Data Tier Application Projects in Visual Studio 2010
MSDN Virtual Lab: PowerPivot in SQL Server 2008 R2

Gum charkhan

Ali Raza Zaidi — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 06:33:39 +0000

گھم چرخڑیا! تیری کتن والی جیوے’ نلیاں وٹن والی جیوے
بُڈھا ہویوں شاہ حسینا’ دندیں جھیراں پیاں
اُٹھ سویرے ڈھونڈن لگوں، سنجھ دیاں جوگیاں
ہر دم نام سنبھال سائیں دا’ تاں توں استھرتھیویں
چرخہ بولے،سائیں سائیں ،بائیڑ بولے تُوں
کہے فقیر سائیں دا، میں ناہیں سبھ توں

Effort is important, but knowing where to make an effort makes all the difference

Ali Raza Zaidi — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 08:59:47 +0000

Effort is important, but knowing where to make an effort makes all the difference, read story below:

A giant ship engine failed. The ship’s owners tried one expert after another, but none of them could figure but how to fix the engine.

Then they brought in an old man who had been fixing ships since he was a young. He carried a large bag of tools with him, and when he arrived, he immediately went to work. He inspected the engine very carefully, top to bottom.

Two of the ship’s owners were there, watching this man, hoping he would know what to do. After looking things over, the old man reached into his bag and pulled out a small hammer. He gently tapped something. Instantly, the engine lurched into life. He carefully put his hammer away. The engine was fixed!
A week later, the owners received a bill from the old man for ten thousand dollars.
“What?!” the owners exclaimed. “He hardly did anything!”
So they wrote the old man a note saying, “Please send us an itemized bill.”

The man sent a bill that read:
Tapping with a hammer…… . …….. …….. $ 2.00
Knowing where to tap……… …….. ……… $ 9,998.00

Moral of story is . . . . . . . . …. .. .

Effort is important, but knowing where to make an effort makes all the difference

Biztalk 2010 virtual Lab Links

Ali Raza Zaidi — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 18:04:39 +0000

With reference to virtual lab page

What’s new in BizTalk 2010

Ali Raza Zaidi — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:38:35 +0000

I found following video excellent reference . Sorry for silver light plug-in require for watch this video

Error 5009.Registration of BAM performance counters failed. Return code -1.

Ali Raza Zaidi — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 07:48:32 +0000

While installing biztak 2009 at windows 7 on my personal computer i got following error

Error 5009.Registration of BAM performance counters failed. Return code -1.

, after searching in google, i found following solution

Run the command “lodctr /r ” as administrator. (This rebuilds the performance counter registry.)

how to get year from date in pl sql

Ali Raza Zaidi — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:04:49 +0000

pl Sql has function “Extract” this functions works wonders. I used it at many places in my application , i write some samples here

Years

select EXTRACT(YEAR FROM DATE ’2008-3-17′)YEAR from dual;

Months

select EXTRACT(Month FROM DATE ’2009-3-17′)Months from dual;

Day

select EXTRACT(day FROM DATE ’2009-3-17′)Days from dual;

and how i used it my query

select * from tblSales_V where salesId in (select SalesId from OUTLET_SALE_V where outlet_Id =’001198′)
and EXTRACT(YEAR FROM issue_Date) = 2005

chears

Aaj Bazaar meiN pabajaulaN chalo

Ali Raza Zaidi — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 21:43:41 +0000

the poem by faiz ahmed faiz constantly comes in my mind. Check it out

Chashm-e-nam,Jaan-e-Shorida kaafi nahiN
Tohmat-e-Ishq posheeda kaafi nahiN
Aaj Bazaar meiN pabajaulaN chalo
Dast afshaaN chalo, mast-o-raqsaaN chalo
Khaak barsar chalo,khuN badamaaN chalo
raah takta hai sab shehr-e-jaanaN chalo
Aaj bazaar meiN pabajaulaN chalo
haakim-e-sheher bhi majama�e aam bhi
subh-e-nashad bhi,roz-e-nakaam bhi
teer-e-ilzam bhi sange dushnam bhi
pa ba jaulaaN chalo, aaj bazaar meiN
inka damsaaz apne siwa kon hai
shehr-e-jaanaN mein ab basifa kon hai
dast-e-qaatil ke shaayaN raha kon hai
rakht-e-dil bandh lo, dilfigaaro chalo
phir humiN qatal ho aayeN yaaro chalo
Faiz Ahmed Faiz

How to open webform in new popup brower window from code behind

Ali Raza Zaidi — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 06:32:39 +0000

PopUp form can be open through two ways from code behind, you can use both way , parameters can be send through Query string as well

protected void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e){ OpenNewWindow(”test.aspx”); OpenNewWindowUsingResponse("test.aspx"); }


public void OpenNewWindow(string url)

{

ClientScript.RegisterStartupScript(this.GetType(), “newWindow”, String.Format(””, url));

}
Public Void OpenNewWindowUsingResponse(string Url)

{

Response.Write("rn");

Response.Write("open('" + Url + "');rn");

Response.Write("");

}
Both Works fine

What is Kerbala! In the eye of Leaders of the World.

Ali Raza Zaidi — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 07:23:13 +0000

Charles Dickens said the following about Imam Hussain (AS):

“If Hussain fought to quench his worldly desires, then I do not understand why his sisters, wives and children accompanied him. It stands to reason therefore that he sacrificed purely for Islam.”

Sir Muhammad Iqbal says:

Imam Husayn uprooted despotism forever till the Day of Resurrection. He watered the dry garden of freedom with the surging wave of his blood, and indeed he awakened the sleeping Muslim nation. If Imam Husayn had aimed at acquiring a worldly empire, he would not have traveled the way he did (from Medina to Karbala). Husayn weltered in blood and dust for the sake of truth. Verily he, therefore, became the bed-rock (foundation) of the Muslim creed; la ilaha illa Allah (There is no god but Allah).
Ronay wala hoon Shaheed-e-Kerbala key gham men main,
Kya durey maqsad na dengey Saqiye Kausar mujhey
I am one who weeps at the plight of the Martyr of Kerbala Won’t the reward be given to me by the Keeper of Kauser Allama Iqbal in his Baqiyat (in Urdu)

Thomas Carlyle has relayed this about the Tragedy of Karbala:

“The best lesson which we get from the tragedy of Karbala is that Hussain and his companions were the rigid believers of God. They illustrated that numerical superiority does not count when it comes to truth and falsehood.The victory of Hussain despite his minority marvels me!”

Dr. K. Sheldrake on Imam Hussain (AS) said this:

“Hussain marched with his little company not to glory, not to power or wealth, but to a supreme sacrifice and every member of that gallant band, male and female, knew that the foes were implacable, were not only readyto fight but to kill. Denied even water for the children, they remained parched under a burning sun, amid scorching sands yet no one faltered for a moment and bravely faced the greatest odds without flinching.”

BrownBrown in his `A Literary History of Persia’ writes:

As a reminder, the blood-stained field of Karbala’ where the grandson of the Apostle of God fell at length, tortured by thirst and surrounded by the bodies of his murdered kinsmen, has been at any time since then sufficient to evoke, even in the most lukewarm and heedless, the deepest emotion, the most frantic grief and the exaltation of spirit before which pain, danger, and death shrink to unconsidered trifles. Yearly, on the tenth day of Muharram, the tragedy is rehearsed in Persia, in India, in Turkey, in Egypt, wherever a Shiite community or colony exists; … As I write it all comes back; the wailing chant, the sobbing multitudes, the white raiment red with blood from self-inflicted wounds, the intoxication of grief and sympathy.

World famous Arab historian al-Fakhri has said this about Imam Hussain’s sacrifice:

“This is a catastrophe whereof I care not to speak at length, deeming it alike too grievous and too horrible. For verily, it was a catastrophe than that which naught more shameful has happened in Islam…There happened therein such a foul slaughter as to cause man’s flesh to creep with horror. And again I have dispersed with my long description because ofit’s notoriety, for it is the most lamented of catastrophes.”

KHWAJA MOINUDDIN CHISTI (RA)says

Shah ast Hussain, Badshah ast Hussain,

Deen ast Hussain, Deen Panah ast Hussain,

Sar dad, na dad dast, dar dast-e-yazeed,

Haqaa key binaey La ila ast Hussain

Hussain is the Master, Hussain is the King,

Hussain is Faith, Hussain is Refuge for the Faith,

He gave his head but not his hand in Yazeed’s hand

Hussain is the foundation of La’Illah.

reference : http://wajahatabbas.wordpress.com/2006/02/21/what-is-kerbala-in-the-eye-of-leaders-of-the-world-2/