BI Developer Studio does a lot of automatic changes when you change something. Each dimension is stored in a separate file, but many of the dimension informations are copied into cube files. When you modify a dimension which is already used by one or more cubes in the same project, the editor automatically updates many of these informations. Each ...

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 ...

I just posted this bug on the Microsoft Connect site. Please vote it if you think it would be a useful change. This is the issue description. If you set the''Aggregation Usage'' to true for an attribute of a dimension (i.e. Customer), you cannot run the aggregation design wizard on a partition of a measure group that is not linked to ...

I have been notified of this strange bug in Analysis Services 2005 that is easily reproducable. ******************************************************************PLEASE DO NOT TRY THIS TEST ON A PRODUCTION SERVER! IT HANGS ANALYSIS SERVICES!!!****************************************************************** Open SQL Server Management ...

SQL Server 2005 has a new version of Analysis Services with a lot of new features, so much that a whole (thick) book would be necessary to describe everything. Nevertheless, many improvements are ''marginal'', in the sense that bring us better productivity (= less development time) or better performance. Aside administrative and development ...