Long gone are the days when you can reasonably expect to know all aspects of SQL Server at a deep level.  When a new version starts to emerge, I try to put some scope around the features that I will dive more deeply into.  I'm publishing my list here so that like-minded SQL Server enthusiasts may become aware of a feature or ...

As the readers of my blog know, bulk evaluation mode (called ''block computation mode'' in Katmai) delivers much better performance in MDX than the cell-by-cell evaluation mode. Therefore the most important optimization technique with MDX in Analysis Services is to rewrite MDX in such a way that makes block computations possible. Easy to say, ...