In two recent BI projects customers were won over with some nice looking (snazzy) Power View dashboards and charts. Though really the hard work was in the data warehouse and cube design. If you haven’t used Power View yet then here’s a great SQL Server Pro article from Tyler Chessman on 6 tips and recent enhancements to Power
In this SQL Server Pro article Save Thousands in Licensing Costs for SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups Michael Campbell makes a case on why Windows 2012 Standard edition provides the best bang for buck in supporting your AlwaysOn Availability Group implementation.
Whilst this bug is not directly related to SQL Server I thought DBAs should be aware of it since there are a lot of web servers out there accessing SQL Server back ends. I found this article Everything you need to know about the Heartbleed SSL bug by Troy Hunt to be one of the best in explaining the bug’s ins and outs.