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Sometimes things turn out in a quite different way than expected. I looked forward to visit the Microsoft BI Conference in Stockholm and listen to Rafal Lukawiecki, but ended up doing a presentation there myself... The background is that Rafal is doing...
Introduction This article describes how to build a tool , InstantCube, that uses SQL Server Modeling Services that drastically reduces the development time of simple Analysis Services cubes. Using the tool you can accomplish with a few lines of DSL (Domain...
Welcome to read my article, Improving Cube Performance with Precalculated Aggregations , on SQLServerCentral.com. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/SSAS/68309/ More articles will be coming when I have the time to write.
Microsoft just announced the real name for the BI Self Service component (project "Gemini" ) of SQL Server 2008 R2 . According to the new web site, PowerPivot is: "PowerPivot provides business users with BI at their fingertips while enabling...
I recently had to reinstall Reporting Services 2008, and had to remind myself how to set it up correctly. Installing Reporting Services on Vista, and later operating systems, can be tricky. I've seen several forum posts of people spending days on...
Background A couple of weeks ago, the second CTP for SQL Server 2008 R2 was released. I downloaded it immediately. Still the product is far from finished, and the CTP didn't contain any preview of the "Gemini" component, but I could at least...