Denormalizing dimension tables
When building a SSAS cube, you typically have a star schema containing dimension tables and fact tables. For dimension tables,...
2011-10-07
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James Serra's Blog
Microsoft’s Data Warehouse offerings
If you are the decision maker in your company and you are tasked with purchasing one or more servers to...
2011-10-05
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Want to browse the web faster?
In our day-to-day activities, browsing the web is one of the most important aspects of our job. Whether researching for...
2011-10-03
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Microsoft SQL Server Reference Architecture and Appliances
Microsoft has made available SQL Server appliances and reference architectures that allow customers to deploy data warehouse (DW), business intelligence (BI) and...
2011-09-30
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Consultants: 1099 or W-2?
As a consultant or contractor, you can sometimes be faced with the decision when taking a new contract of whether...
2011-09-28
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What is a Microsoft Regional Director?
First off, they don’t work for Microsoft. A Microsoft Regional Director (RD) is an unbiased third-party evangelist of Microsoft products and...
2011-09-26
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Microsoft Partner Network explained
I’m sure in your travels in the field of IT, you have seen or heard of companies being called a...
2011-09-23
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Miss 24 Hours of PASS ? No problem, all videos are online
All the videos for the sessions at 24 Hours of PASS are available for free. Check the session schedule for...
2011-09-22
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Context-sensitive menus in PerformancePoint
Frequently I see a bit of confusion from business users when using an analytic grid on a dashboard in PerformancePoint. ...
2011-09-21
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Building a Visual Studio project from an existing SSAS database
Imagine you join a company, and there is an existing SSAS database that contains a few cubes that are working nicely. You...
2011-09-19
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The Book of Redgate: Spread across the world
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Question of the Day
UNISTR Escape
In SQL Server 2025, I run this command:
SELECT UNISTR('*3041*308A*304C\3068 and good night', '*') as "A Classic";
What is returned? (assume the database has an appropriate collation)
A: 
B: 
C: 
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