December 2007 - Posts

• Many-to-Many Dimensions: Query Performance Optimization Techniques

  More than one year ago I published a paper about design patterns for many-to-many dimension relationships . Since then, I built other models and I got more experience about possible performance optimizations. Unfortunately, I still hadn't time to write Read More... Posted Saturday, December 22, 2007 4:51 PM by Marco Russo (SQLBI) | 2 Comments Filed under: M2M, Analysis Services

• Free Introducing LINQ book

  Usually I write in this blog about Business Intelligence without too much consideration for "traditional" access to SQL Server. However, in a parallel universe I also wrote a book about LINQ and now that we are in full Christmas mode, I hope you may be Read More... Posted Saturday, December 22, 2007 11:54 AM by Marco Russo (SQLBI) | 1 Comments

• Real Report Builder 2008 improvements for Analysis Services

  Brian Welcker (who is leaving SSRS team - good luck Brian!) has announced a long explanation of the Report Builder 2008 positioning . For me (and all of you who live in the multidimensional business...) the most important part of the post is this simple Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 19, 2007 12:38 AM by Marco Russo (SQLBI) | 0 Comments Filed under: Reporting Services, SQL Server 2008