Reza Rad's personal blog

Hi folks,

I had a presentation on New Features of SSIS 2012 on Auckland SQL User Group at Microsoft NZ venue at 16 May 2012.

in following you will find more details about my presentation

Today I want to talk about exam 70-452 which is PRO exam for achieving MCITP BI 2008.

for sitting on this exam you should pass 70-448 (MCTS - BI 2008) as first step.

In this post I will talk about MCTS BI 2008;

Microsoft certification plan for Business Intelligence in SQL Server 2008 contains two exams:

70-448 ; MCTS (Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist) - SQL Server 2008, Business Itelligence Development and Maintenance

70-452 ; MCITP (Microsoft Certified IT Professional) - Business Intelligence Developer 2008

so if you want to get certified in Microsoft BI 2008 you can pass two exams above

Hi folks,

April was busy month for me, I was finishing the book from one side, preparing presentation for SQL Saturday 136 and attending at Microsoft exam from other side!

SQL Saturday 136 ran at 14 April at Wellington - New Zealand with 14 session, and that was good opportunity for me to meet Rob Farely, Dave Dustin, Paul White and other SQL Server experts.

My Session topic; New Features of SSIS 2012

Hi folks,

the event schedule of SQL Saturday 136 of ANZ 2012 defined already, This event will be in Wellington at 14 April, Agenda of 14 sessions listed here.

You can register for this free tutorial day of SQL Server and enjoy it. there are a range of good SQL Server speakers there which I like to see them in person.

My Session with title "New Features of SSIS 2012" is also scheduled at 5:00 PM; I will be glad to see some of you there.

This is session summary:

Hi friends,

after about 7 month hardworking I wants to inform you that my upcoming book about SSIS 2012 will be published about 1 month later, So I like to share the link of the book here. Pedro Perfeito one of my friends who is a SSIS expert and also SQL Server MVP in Portugal also helped me to writing this book. I want to thanks my wife who extremely supported me in this challenge, this book never be written without her support. Also I want to say my thanks to Phil Brammer specially who helped us in reviewing the book. and thanks to Pedro for being my co-author in this book.

I hope all of you find this book helpful and help me and Pedro to improve the book in the future.

Writing a book completely was a hard task when you have full time job, training courses in some institutes and relocating overseas,  but I feel that I warmed up already and ready to write my next book

OK, and the book is:

Hi folks,

Finally SQL Server 2012 Virtual Launch event comes at 7th of Mar 2012,

go here to find more:

www.sqlserverlaunch.com?WT.mc_id=otc-n-ca-loc--40210

I will be there also to help you and would be happy to meet you and show you SQL Server 2012 great new features.

Hi folks,

Seems SQL Server 2012 beta exams will be available soon, but actual exams will be released at June 2012.

The BI part seems to be much more design and architecture oriented in these new exams, and I am happy for that. Because current BI exams are completely technology and tool oriented.

Hi,

Today one of my colleagues in company faced a problem, He wants to split a text field by a delimiter character.

This motivate me to write a Split function for my own use and put it here for help others.

Few minutes ago I received the MVP Award email from Microsoft.

this is my second year as SQL Server MVP. I believe that this award achieved because of my dedication in Microsoft BI Stack and SSIS.

I like to thanks from all friends, other SQL Server MVPs and my dear Leila

I want to use this space to wish a good and happy new year 2012 to all of you.