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
Project Management – Part 1
By Vinay Thakur
The soul of project management is Process Group(PG) and Knowledge Area(KA). they are related...
Install SQL Server 2025 Container on macOS Using OrbStack
My old Dell XPS that I used for personal stuff started to degrade; well,...
Flyway Tips: Immediate Code Review for Developers
By Steve Jones
At the Redgate Summits this year, we’ve highlighted a few things in the Flyway...
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Impact of Single-Threaded PVS Cleanup on ADR in SQL Server 2019
We want to enable ADR on our SQL Server 2019 instances. I’ve heard that...
Forward Deployed Engineers
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TRY_PARSE vs TRY_CONVERT in SQL Server: From Basics to Practical Usage
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Question of the Day
DBCC CHECKDB Limits II
I have a SQL Server 2025 database that I want to check for corruption every night. One of the things we do is disable indexes used for ETL loads during the weekend and re-enable them on Monday morning. If we run DBCC over the weekend, are our disabled indexes checked for consistency?
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