November 2006 - Posts

• Data Mining Addin for Excel

  My experience with the term "add-in" was that you have a piece of software put on top of a bigger software, just to enable some little functionality. Today at SQL Pass 2006 I've seen how this term has to be redefined. The Data Mining Add-ins for Office Read More... Posted Thursday, November 16, 2006 9:20 PM by Marco Russo (SQLBI) | 0 Comments

• If you attend SQL Pass 2006

  I am here in Seattle attending SQL Pass 2006 . If you are around, feel free to stop me and say hi: I really like to meet blog readers and people who read my many-to-many paper . Let's contact me if you want to set a meeting place. Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 5:47 PM by Marco Russo (SQLBI) | 0 Comments

• The vardecimal type for the fact table

  I still hadn't time to install the SP2 CTP but I just read this post and I think it's a very interesting thing! The VARDECIMAL could be an amazing feature! I encountered several times huges fact tables that have many NUMERIC measures. If the VARDECIMAL Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 5:32 PM by Marco Russo (SQLBI) | 0 Comments

• SQL Server 2005 SP2 - CTP available

  Here is available the SP2 CTP for SQL Server 2005. The what's new document explain that there is an improvement in many-to-many dimension relationships calculations. I will try to evaluate the performance improvement, but unfortunately I'm in the middle Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 5:39 AM by Marco Russo (SQLBI) | 0 Comments