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
825 reads
Blogs
Using Prompt AI for a Travel Data Analysis
By Steve Jones
I was looking back at my year and decided to see if SQL Prompt...
FinOps for Kubernetes: Leveraging OpenCost, KubeGreen, and Kubecost for Cost Efficiency
In the era of cloud-native applications, Kubernetes has become the default standard platform for...
2025 Wrapped for Steve
By Steve Jones
I’ve often done some analysis of my year in different ways. Last year I...
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reaching ftp thru winscp but erroring in ssis ftp task connection
Hi, below i show various results trying to reach our ftp site (a globalscape...
Finding Motivation
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The Last Binary Value of the Year
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The Last Binary Value of the Year
What does this code return?
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