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Introducing Actions in Analysis Services 2005

In this and the related articles, we will overview Actions in Analysis Services 2005. Much as they did in the previous version of Analysis Services, Actions allow information consumers to go beyond the robust OLAP perspective offered by Analysis Services, and to "step outside" for related information, or to generate commands or initialize programs, without leaving their current analysis focus.

2006-10-24

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Design Challenge: Global Address

Are you up to the latest design challenge? A great way to sharpen our analysis and modeling skills is to continuously address real-world scenarios. A modeling scenario with suggested solutions appears each month in this Design Challenge column. The scenario is emailed to more than 1,000 modelers. The responses are then consolidated into this column.

2006-10-16

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Rename DTS Tasks for Clear Log Text

This Script will create a copy of your DTS Package; append "_Renamed" to the end of the package name; and rename every task and step in the copied package to Task/Step_TaskType_DescriptionText_Sequence. The resulting package will lose all of it's text annotations, the layout will be the designer default rather than the original latout. It can […]

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2006-10-12 (first published: )

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Question of the Day

Creating JSON III

In a SQL Server 2025 table, called Beer, I have this data:

BeerIDBeerName
1Becks
2Fat Tire
3Mac n Jacks
4Alaskan Amber
8Kirin
I run this code:
SELECT JSON_OBJECTAGG(
    BeerID: BeerName )
FROM beer;
What are the results?

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