I was trying to find a way to repeatedly run the same MDX CREATE GLOBAL CUBE statement 70 times, building 70 different offline cubes for sales rep type folks to carry around for a client, and I just couldn't get it. I have some experience with SSIS, mostly from writing a tutorial on how to do RSS feeds with SSIS earlier that I am not sure ...

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 ...