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
A Quick Look at Redgate Data Modeler
By Steve Jones
Redgate acquired a data modeling tool from Vertabelo recently and I wanted to explore...
Prepping for Certification, Part 2 of ?
By Brian Kelley
The advantage of understanding the make-up of the exam: I can tailor my efforts...
Data Viz in Fabric Notebooks
Lots of people have created Power BI reports, using interactive data visualizations to explore...
Forums
Filtered Indexes: The Developer’s Secret Weapon in SQL Server
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Is Data Modeling Common?
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Getting The Database Name
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Question of the Day
Getting The Database Name
I run this code to connect to SQL Server 2022 from the command line.
sqlcmd -S localhost -EAt the command line, I run these two commands:
SELECT ORIGINAL_DB_NAME() GOWhat is returned? See possible answers