September 2008 - Posts

• SQL Server 2008 Cumulative Update 1

  The first cumulative update for SQL Server 2008 has been shipped. It can be downloaded here . This cumulative update contains several hotfix released for AS2005 (CU8, CU9, CU10) but not included in SQL Server 2008 RTM. There is also some bug fixed. Share Read More... Posted Thursday, September 25, 2008 9:46 AM by Marco Russo (SQLBI) | 0 Comments

• Self-Service Business Intelligence

  The next Microsoft Business Intelligence Conference is coming and I just looked at sessions to include in my agenda. Every time I do this work, I find something in sessions descriptions that anticipates something that is coming out as news announcement Read More... Posted Monday, September 22, 2008 11:31 PM by Marco Russo (SQLBI) | 6 Comments Filed under: Business Intelligence, Conference Communities, Conference

• Methodology comparison: Kimball, Inmon and SQLBI

  This post is part of a Methodology discussion - other posts will follows. I will be happy to get your feedback! I am proud to announce a public draft of the first paper about the SQLBI Methodology . I and Alberto Ferrari tried to define a consistent methodology Read More... Posted Saturday, September 20, 2008 7:36 PM by Marco Russo (SQLBI) | 4 Comments Filed under: SSAS, SQL Server, Methodology

• Non-boolean LINQ predicates

  Bart De Smet just wrote a long post about LINQ predicates that can be defined without returning a boolean value. This is something I partially evaluated writing the Programming Microsoft LINQ book, but in his post Bart goes very deep on this topic and Read More... Posted Monday, September 15, 2008 12:18 PM by Marco Russo (SQLBI) | 1 Comments

• Is a BI methodology truly independent from the underlying technology?

  This post is part of a Methodology discussion - other posts will follows. I will be happy to get your feedback! Building a BI solution (like any kind of software project), it is normal to look for existing methodologies and best practices, just to avoid Read More... Posted Sunday, September 14, 2008 12:29 PM by Marco Russo (SQLBI) | 2 Comments Filed under: Business Intelligence, Analysis Services", Methodology

• Active queries LINQ

  Paul Stovell made a presentation on " Reactive Programming and Bindable LINQ " at TechED Australia 2008 (unfortunately, I was at the antipode in Italy, but the topic is really interesting). I didn't know there are projects somewhat similar to Bindable Read More... Posted Thursday, September 11, 2008 11:13 AM by Marco Russo (SQLBI) | 2 Comments

• Classification of BI solutions

  This post is part of a Methodology discussion - other posts will follows. I will be happy to get your feedback! One interesting question is “How do you measure the complexity of a BI solution?” If we need to decide whether a specific technique is suitable Read More... Posted Friday, September 05, 2008 10:54 AM by Marco Russo (SQLBI) | 2 Comments Filed under: Methodology

• Methodologies to build BI Solutions

  In the last years I spent most of my time working on BI solutions based on the SQL Server platform. I had experiences with other architectures but I mostly used Kimball's methodology to design relational databases feeding SSAS cubes. However, Kimball Read More... Posted Friday, September 05, 2008 10:47 AM by Marco Russo (SQLBI) | 2 Comments Filed under: Methodology

• Microsoft Sharepoint Conference in Italy

  Ok, this could be partially off topic, but if you work on BI it is not. I will be a speaker at the Microsoft Sharepoint Conference 2008 in Milan (Italy) on 2 and 3 October 2008. I have one speech about building digital dashboards using SharePoint, Reporting Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 02, 2008 10:11 AM by Marco Russo (SQLBI) | 0 Comments