Installing SSAS 2012
I don’t usually write posts like this but there have been a few substantial changes to how SSAS 2012 is...
2012-05-07
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Garrett Hilton Edmondson
Enterprise Data Warehouse Architecture Options
Enterprise Data Warehouse Architecture Options
Of course, your architecture depends on your business requirements along with technical, historical, and political factors....
2012-04-25
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Massively Parallel Processing and the Parallel Data Warehouse
Data growth is related to Moore’s law. As computers get faster and more powerful, we are using them to process...
2012-04-15
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The Kimball Approach
The Kimball Approach
There are a lot of misconceptions about dimensional modeling and the Kimball approach to building a DW/BI system....
2012-04-08
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Parallel Data Warehouse – Slowly Changing Dimension
Most of my day-to-day work is currently centered around Microsoft’s Massively Parallel Processing Appliance call PDW (Parallel Data Warehouse). Many...
2012-04-02
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Building the Enterprise DW/BI System with SQL Server PDW
Building the Enterprise DW/BI System with SQL Server PDW
Most readers considering a Parallel Data Warehouse already have a data warehouse...
2012-03-25
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Columnstore Indexs
Columnstore Indexes for Fast DW
The SQL Server 11.0 release (2012) introduces a new data warehouse query acceleration feature based on...
2012-03-19 (first published: 2012-03-15)
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SSAS Tabular Model – Query Modes
One of the most compelling features of the new SSAS Tabular Model is the ability to set the model’s Query...
2012-03-09
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MDX SSRS Parameter Values
<rant> One of the most frustrating things about working with the Microsoft BI Stack is after you go through all...
2012-03-02
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Cartesian/Cross Join
I was once asked in a job interview if I knew what a Cartesian/Cross Join was.
A more interesting question is:...
2012-02-19
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Blogs
Shifting Mindsets: Why FinOps is Essential for Cloud Efficiency
By HeyMo0sh
As a DevOps practitioner, I’ve always focused on performance, scalability, and automation. But as...
March 2026 SQL Server Security Updates
By Brian Kelley
On Patch Tuesday, in addition to OS and Office security patches, Microsoft also released...
How Fabric Mirroring Transformed with SQL Server 2025
When mirroring was first released for Azure SQL Database, it used Change Data Capture...
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Upgrading Admin Queries
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Upgrading Admin Queries
I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?
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