If you’re still unsure if the workshop I’ll deliver at PASS Summit the next November - “Creating a BI solution from A to Z” - is a good choice for you or not, you can get some more details reading the brief interview here: PASS Summit Post-Con Preview - Davide Mauri Where you’ll find answers to the following questions: Is there an audience ...

Many thanks to everyone who attended my session today, Introduction to MDX. There was so much more I wanted to say, but the constraint of an hour required me to be very selective and, as you might have noticed, to sacrifice the demos. After all, how exciting can it be to watch me execute a query? I thought it more important to provide you with ...

Reporting Services can be used in conjunction with Analysis Services, creating powerful reporting solution that can satisfy almost  any customer needs for “standard” reporting. For “standard” I mean solutions that has not be created using Excel and a Cube to give the user complete freedom (and responsibility) over data. In one of our current ...

Setting partition slice has always been an important optimization technique in Analysis Services. Every presentation talked about it and every whitepaper mentioned it, for example the Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services Performance Guide contains a chapter appropriately named “Define the Data Slice for Each Partition”, here is a quote from ...

I was reading the blog post ''My notes from Microsoft BI Conference'' by Vidas Matelis. It is a collection of notes recorded at different presentations, chalk talks etc. I felt that I agree with some of them, disagree with some, and have no opinion about some. I felt like it would be useful to write down my thoughts about these notes. Of ...

Chris Webb has recently released a really interesting tool: MDX Script Performance Analyzer. It's a really interesting idea that will save me (and you) a lot of time trying to understand the root of a performance issue into an MDX Script of a cube. Thank you Chris, if I only had this tool three months ago! :-) Chris has also posted the news of an ...