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I found this test over at a Martin Bekkelund, a former collegue's, blog (all in Norwegian). How geek am I?51% Geek Martin is only 43% geek. I'm not sure if it's a good or bad thing to have a higher score than him, but I feel pretty confident the...

Recently I got a text file from a customer. They'd exported all the DTS packages to this file, and told me I just had to create a new DTS package to import them all into the SysDtsPackages table in SQL Server 2000. I'd never done that before, and...

My blogging has been embarassingly sporadic. The second half of 2007 was crazy, I spent a lot of time working on a fairly big BI project as well as trying to pass Microsoft exam 70-445 (TS: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence – Implementation...

So, the new year is here. The last year has been very interesting, with joining Avanade Norway the most important thing work wise, and our trip to Japan as the most important personally. Right before Christmas break, we sold our appartment, so 2008...

For the next 2 days, I'm attending a training course at Microsoft UK (Chertsey office). Off course, all their keyboards are with English key setup, which lacks 3 letters (æøå), and also has the different symbols in very weird positions compared to...

One of my favourite writers, Roald Dahl, was born in Wales on September 13, 1916. His parents were Norwegian, but he never lived in Norway. He did come here on vacation, though. Even though he is one of my favourites, I didn't really know that it...

One of the first things I did starting at Avanade, was to create a blog there. It's at http://blog.avanadeadvisor.com/blogs/kaisal/default.aspx But for some silly reason, I can't get the cross posting to work. Avanade is running the same edition...

One of the biggest problems I've been having with upgrading my mad reporting skills from RS 2000 to RS 2005 has been with cascading parameters in OLAP reports. WIth the new and "user friendly" connection method to Analysis Services, I couldn't...

I found a link to the "Which Transformer Are You Quiz" at fellow AvaNaut Bryant Likes' blog. I AM79%OPTIMUS PRIME Take the Transformers Quiz That's pretty cool! And for those who don't know who this Optimus guy is, here's the description from...

Today I've been trying out one of the Starter Kits that can be used with Visual Studio 2005. I'm using the Club Web Site Starter Kit. This starter kit expects to run with SQL Express. I don't have SQL Express on my computer, as I run SQL Server 2005....

On Friday June 1, I join Bernt at Avanade Norway. Yey! I applied for a job there after having met lots of nice Avanade people in Seattle. Before that I'd met some nice Avanade people in Sydney and Canberra, and after accepting I've met nice Avanade...

I've been using an application called Feedreader to ... well ... read rss feeds for a few months now, and I'm still quite happy with it. Sometimes it seems to have deleted the "read log", so it displays things I've marked as read as unread, but I...

A few days ago Bernt brought home a guitar. A sweet, white, plastic guitar, with 5 colourfull buttons... He's been looking for Guitar Hero II for a few weeks, but hadn't found it before this week. So we started playing. We have a slightly different...

We returned from Japan last night. Even though our vacation there has been wonderfull, it was quite nice to come back home to our own bed. We arrived in Tokyo on April 4 and headed straight for our hotel, The B Akasaka. We met up with Kazue, a friend...

Here's a small report from Japan. We've been here for 6 days. The first days we spent in Osaka and Kyoto, and today we travelled to Tokyo by Shinkansen (bullet train). It's been 6 years since I travelled here with Bernt for the first time. It's just...

Microsoft has created a new way of donating money: Use a code in your Live Messenger, and MS will donate a sum of money to different causes: i’m is a new initiative from Windows Live™ Messenger. Every time you start a conversation using i’m, Microsoft...

A friend of ours, Henrik, wanted to go to Japan this Easter. As none of his other friends wanted to skip cross country skiing and eating oranges outside cottages without inhouse water, he asked Bernt and me if we wanted to go. Off course we wanted!...

Just solved a problem with some matrix controls in RS2000 reports. The columns groups on Months. Not all months have numbers. And for some silly reason, February and March would still display the numbers for the latter months. ...

When I installed Vista, I was a bit worried about what would not be working afterwards. RSS Bandit was the first thing that didn't work out of the box, but now I've figured out what to do and what not to do. My laptop is a HP Compaq NW8000 from 2004....

The last couple of days I've had a problem with running Microsoft Dynamics Ax (a.k.a. Axapta) on my Vista pc. After some backward thinking, it seemed that this problem started occuring when my pc was moved from one OU in our AD to a different one....

During the last few weeks, I've installed SQL Server 2005 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 countless times. It's getting old. So now I think my next project will be to create a package and script to: install SQL Server 2005 with Analysis...

Today I'm trying to fix a report where there's a matrix with quite a lot of nested IIFs. The columns show 3 different kinds of numbers for each month of the year + a total. The footer shows the sum for each month. But the sum should be different for...

Today I discovered something new about my Zune. Like a lot of other electrical appliances, it doesn't like cold weather too much. As Bernt needed our car, I had to take the bus to work today. So I stuffed my Zune in my handbag, and went on my way....

During the last two years, I've gotten used to excluding certain words when searching the internet. When I'm looking for something related to MDX (Multi dimensional expressions, used to query OLAP cubes), I usually add –acura to any search strings....

Just before New Year's Eve I decided to install Vista on my laptop. So far, so good. Most of the applications I use work well. The only application I haven't managed to run, is RSS Bandit, the RSS feed reader I used on Windows Server 2003. I've...