posted on Friday, September 03, 2004 5:40 AM
by
hitachi
Airlift
Last week was a big Airlift event where I was finally able to meet Bob and Larry (the primary players behind the other SQL Server Ascend courses). It was cool to be able to compare notes a little on the joys of banging one’s head against a wall for months to see which one cracks first.
At the Airlift, I did a one-day version of the five-day Yukon BI for Developers course—basically, talking really, really fast to try to fit an impossible amount of content into a day. We even had a surprise visit from some folks from the ActiveViews team to show us a sneak preview. ActiveViews isn’t in Beta 2, so I haven’t looked at it much yet. Because of its historical evolution, ActiveViews requires its own metadata layer—rather than using the Yukon UDM, which is understandable, but unfortunate. The value for the report designers/users is sufficient that some administrative redundancy is probably acceptable.
- Reed