How do I find someone to help with Sql Server 2005 BI Project?

I've been building out a data warehouse of my product's usage with some
segmentation of our customer base. I am doing this using SQL Server 2005
Integration Services, Analysis Services and Reporting Services. My problem
is, I am doing this as a "side project" and I am not making enough progress
.
That brings me to my question...how can I find a SQL Server 2005 consultant
who knows the new BI services that have been released with SQL Server 2005.
I've been looking all over the net to find someone, and I am at a loss. My
office is in Boston and I'd ideally like to get a consultant who can come
work out of our offices for some period of time, but I am can't find anyone.
Anyone have any advice on where to go to find these folks?Hi Peter,
I'm in Boston, and can connect you with someone in my network who can help.
Send me a private e-mail with more about your project requirements, etc.
amachanic (at) datamanipulation (dot) net
Adam Machanic
Pro SQL Server 2005, available now
http://www.apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=457
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"PeterF" <PeterF@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I've been building out a data warehouse of my product's usage with some
> segmentation of our customer base. I am doing this using SQL Server 2005
> Integration Services, Analysis Services and Reporting Services. My
> problem
> is, I am doing this as a "side project" and I am not making enough
> progress.
>
> That brings me to my question...how can I find a SQL Server 2005
> consultant
> who knows the new BI services that have been released with SQL Server
> 2005.
> I've been looking all over the net to find someone, and I am at a loss.
> My
> office is in Boston and I'd ideally like to get a consultant who can come
> work out of our offices for some period of time, but I am can't find
> anyone.
> Anyone have any advice on where to go to find these folks?

How do I develop a plug-in for Management Studio?

Recently saw a red-gate product that added an entire menu header to the management studio interface. How does one go about developing that? My company has several SQL related home grown mini utilities written in C# that I've placed in Management Studio for convienience via the external tools functionality. Feedback from our development and database groups indicate that this solution does not go far enough in cleanly simplifying how we leverage our custom utilities. That being the case it would be a great boon to learn how to add an entire menu to the environment as to customize it to our needs. Any information would be a help. Thanks in advance.

My team owns SQL Server Management Studio. In SQL Server 2005, we do not have any publicly documented or supported ways of plugging into Management Studio. We will be rectifying this in future versions of SQL Server. I was at PASS in Seattle, WA this past week and saw Red-Gate's SQL Refactor utility. What they have done is pretty impressive considering we have not made that information public.

In future releases, we will try to follow Visual Studio's plug-in architecture. Once we are confident that our interfaces will not change significantly, we will release that information to the public.

You could file this as a suggestion on Microsoft Connect. We will keep you in the loop as we make decisions throughout the product development lifecycle. http://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/.

Paul A. Mestemaker II
Program Manager
Microsoft SQL Server Manageability
http://blogs.msdn.com/sqlrem/