Adding PerformancePoint Dashboard Content to SharePoint
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 provides several options for creating Dashboards using PerformancePoint content.
The first option is to implement the...
2013-02-11
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SQL Server Analysis Services Tabular KPIs
A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog post that discusses implementing KPIs in SQL Server Analysis Services Multidimensional. For...
2013-02-04
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Currency Conversion in Tabular Model Using DAX
Roughly a year ago, I implemented currency conversion logic in multidimensional cubes using measure expressions (as well as using the...
2013-01-28
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Re-writing MDX calculated members as DAX measures
I have been working on re-creating some logic in a tabular cube that was originally implemented in multidimensional. This involved...
2013-01-21
1,356 reads
SQL Server Analysis Services KPIs
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are measurements used to gauge business performance against quantifiable goals. SQL Server Analysis Services provides functionality...
2013-01-15 (first published: 2013-01-14)
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Querying and Optimizing DAX
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been watching some videos from this year’s PASS Summit. One of the presentations I...
2013-01-02
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Optimizing Your BI Semantic Model for Performance and Scale
Here’s my notes from the ‘Optimizing Your BI Semantic Model for Performance and Scale (BIA-402-M)’ session at PASS Summit, presented...
2012-12-11
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SSIS: Character Replacement Using the Script Component
When cleansing data from source systems to store in a data mart or warehouse, we often need to remove or...
2012-12-08
1,761 reads
T-SQL Tuesday: What Does the SQL Community Mean to You?
Today is T-SQL Tuesday #36, hosted by Chris Yates (B | T). The topic this month is ‘What Does the SQL...
2012-11-13
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Book Review: SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services The BISM Tabular Model
I will start off by saying, whenever I see the names Marco Russo, Alberto Ferrari and Chris Webb on a...
2012-11-12
1,896 reads
Blogs
Narrow Task Decomposition in AI Pipeline Agents
A nightly load into sales_fact fails. Ask an orchestrating agent to break down the...
Car Update: August 2026
By Steve Jones
It’s been some time since I provided a car update, so I decided to...
Microsoft Fabric OneLake Shortcuts: When to Use Them and When Not To
By James Serra
An architecture scenario Imagine separate Sales, Finance, Shared Data, and Executive Analytics workspaces. Sales...
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Backing Up a DMK
In SQL Server 2025, I have a database with a Database Masker Key (DMK). I want to back up this key and keep a copy offline. When do I have to open this key before running the backup?
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