Improve your SSMS Interaction

Ever wanted to liven up your life some with some color in your day to day DBA duties. There are...

Keynote Speaker!

Actually it’s not as big a deal as it sounds, but still a little exciting. I was asked to be...

LastPeriods and PeriodstoDate

There are several ways for calculating “To-Date” calculations the longer way. These normally include a more granular level of control...

MDX Time Calculation Shortcuts

There are lots of ways to calculate time comparisons in MDX, but there are some great shortcuts. The functions WTD,...

Modifying SQL in a Lookup Transform

Oftentimes you need to make a more advanced join that the default LookUp Transform will allow. The challenge is when...

MS SQL Server Migration Assistant for MySQL v1.0 CTP1

There it is the SQL Server Migration Assistant or SSMS for MySQL, it comes for both versions SQL Server 2008...

Pragmatic Works is on YouTube !

I bet you didn’t know Pragmatic Works has our own YouTube channel ? Check it out at

There is some great...

Quotes in Calculation Tab

A quick clarification on something I said the other day to a group of students in one of our quick...

Selecting Top N Rows from Excel Source

Excel is a significant source of data in most enterprises. Therefore there is a large amount of Excel work being...

SSAS Query Processing and Performance Tuning

Any of us can work with some simple MDX queries and get them to do what we want, but in...