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In one my recent MDX classes, a student asked about automation of MDX queries for the purposes of testing query performance, so today I’ll answer that question and draw your attention to a few resources available. Get the ASCMD Utility If you’re running Read More...
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The upcoming release of SQL Server 2012 has a lot of new features for business intelligence developers to love. The free preview of Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2012 (Microsoft Press, 2012) does not include the chapter on Analysis Services, but you’ll Read More...
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As I mentioned in an earlier post , I first met Tomislav Piasevoli’s ( blog | twitter ) in 2008 at the PASS Summit in Seattle, and saw him again most recently again in Seattle at PASS Summit 2011 . There I had the pleasure of telling him personally how Read More...
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I’ve been working with the Microsoft SQL Server BI stack since late 2000. When I started with SQL Server, my “community” consisted of my co-workers, my clients, and me. As communities go, it was a great community to be in. In 2001, our small boutique Read More...
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It's already half a week after PASS Summit 2011 and my head is still reeling! Just when I think PASS Summit can't possibly get any better, it does. When Erika and I arrived at the Washington State Convention Center on Sunday afternoon to register, I felt Read More...
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It’s that time of year again when the anticipation of the upcoming PASS Summit begins to build. My first attempt at using the Summit Schedule Builder by selecting the various topics of interest to me resulted in extreme overbooking. Sigh… Now I really Read More...
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An interesting confluence of events this week takes me both back to the past as I ponder the future! What gives? Well, the recent release of Tomislav Piasevoli’s ( blog | twitter ) new book, MDX with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Analysis Services Cookbook, Read More...
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Yesterday, Denny Cherry ( blog | twitter ) and I co-presented a 24HOP session for the Fall 2011 lineup , “So How Does the BI Workload Impact the Database Engine?” 24HOP stands for 24 Hours of PASS and is a semiannual roundup of speakers from the SQL Server Read More...
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I read an article today on Women in Technology - A Call for Obsoletion by Claire Willett. I started to comment and realized it was turning into a whole post on its own! I, too, have been puzzled by the disappearance of women in the field. Coming up on Read More...
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When I was a kid, living in New Jersey at the time, my dad was very involved in sports car racing and motorcycles. Our garage was never used to actually park a car that we rode around in. Instead, it was strewn with all kinds of half-built engines and Read More...
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In SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services, you can now create maps for reports using the built-in map gallery of the United States or individual states, ESRI shapefiles, or a spatial query. In a previous post , I explained how to obtain an ESRI shapefile Read More...
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I had to troubleshoot a problem with a mysterious extra page appearing in a PDF this week. My first thought was that it was likely to caused by one of the most common problems that people encounter when developing reports that eventually get rendered Read More...
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A nice feature that appeared first in SQL Server 2005 (not SQL Server 2008 - I mis-remembered!) is the ability to allow the user to click a column header to sort that column. It defaults to an ascending sort first, but you can click the column again to Read More...
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It’s Day 1 of #24HOP and it’s been great to participate in this event with so many women from all over the world in one long training-fest. The SQL community has been abuzz on Twitter with running commentary which is fun to watch while listening to the Read More...
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We live in interesting times with regard to the availability of technical material. We have lots of free written material online in the form of vendor documentation online, forums, blogs, and Twitter. And we have written material that we can buy in the Read More...
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