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    Friday, May 28, 2010

    SQL Server 2008 R2 top links, blogs and downloads

    First blog post in more than 7 months; seems like I was busy with some interesting stuff ;-)

    Anyway, here is a list of my personal favourite SQL Server 2008 R2 links and downloads I collected during the last months.

    SQL Server 2008 R2 Update for Developers Training Kit
    http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=fffaad6a-0153-4d41-b289-a3ed1d637c0d

    Microsoft Contoso BI Demo Dataset for Retail Industry
    http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=868662DC-187A-4A85-B611-B7DF7DC909FC&displaylang=en>

    Report Builder 3.0 Geo Spatial ESRI Shape Files

    PowerPivot

    Introduction to DAX
    http://powerpivotfaq.com/PowerPivot%20Samples/Forms/AllItems.aspx

    PowerPivot Add-in for Excel (RTM version) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=e081c894-e4ab-42df-8c87-4b99c1f3c49b


    PowerPivot and DAX Samples from MS
    http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=eac83429-c6e5-48a6-87cf-00a4141e5441

    http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=1ae63bfb-c303-44e3-ae44-7413d499495d

    Free ebook: Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 http://bit.ly/99ZkEf

    Video's

    SQL 2008 R2 Evaluation Download
    http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/R2Downloads.aspx

    BI Demo VPC 9.2 (MS Partners only)
    https://partner.microsoft.com/global/40022459