SQL PASS Summit 2011 Recap
This week has been an exciting and memorable week for me. The last PASS Summit I attended was in 2009...
2011-10-14
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Devin Knight
PerformancePoint – Using SSAS Actions
The latest project I worked on had a heavy dose of PerformancePoint and one of the requirements was to launch...
2011-09-23
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SSRS – Dealing with truncating spaces
I apologize ahead of time on this post today because it will require lots of pre explanation and screenshots to...
2011-09-22
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PASS Pre Con - Building a Microsoft Business Intelligence Platform
PASS Summit is quickly approaching and while many of you are registering I wanted to remind you of some of...
2011-09-07
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SSIS - Inferred Member Insert in Fact Table Load
Recently while working on a different solution for loading inferred member solution in our fact table load I ran into...
2011-08-16
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PowerPivot – Commonly Used DAX Expressions
Today I will be presenting in a webinar, which by the way is recorded for later viewing, on Commonly used...
2011-08-11
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PowerPivot – Creating KPIs
Probably one of the most anticipated additions to the latest version of PowerPivot is the ability to create KPIs. PowerPivot...
2011-08-08
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PowerPivot – Perspectives
PowerPivot – Perspectives
Many times when developing larger Analysis Services cubes you may find it necessary to use Perspectives to logically split...
2011-08-05
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PowerPivot – Creating Hierarchies
Hierarchies are one of the long awaited features that will now be available in the latest version of PowerPivot. Hierarchies...
2011-07-31
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Modified Insert Unknown Row to Dimension Table
A little over a year ago Patrick LeBlanc wrote a blog post about inserting an unknown row into a dimension. ...
2011-07-29
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Blogs
Moving On-Prem PostgreSQL to the Cloud: Picking the Right Path for Big Tables
Every PostgreSQL migration eventually hits the same fork in the road. The database is...
A Spread of Vacation
By Steve Jones
I’m off on vacation today. Which is a little weird as I just got...
How AgentDBA Identifies Backup Failures
By Arun Sirpal
Every DBA has a box like this. Sitting untouched for months. Nobody’s proud of...
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In the original Independence Day movie (1996), what type of computer did Jeff Goldblum use to connect to the alien mainframe? Take a guess, don't look it up or ask AI.
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