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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Blogs
Programmatic Tool Calling with the Claude SDK
Programmatic Tool Calling with the Claude SDK Every morning somebody on the team runs the...
A New Word: Mauerbauertraurigkeit
By Steve Jones
mauerbauertraurigkeit – n. inexplicable urge to push people away, even close friends whose company...
Methodology for dealing with bad data in production
By Brian Kelley
Pinal Dave wrote up his methodology for what to do when you discover bad...
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Why SQL Server Database Attach fails and how to repair it
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Fixing P1 Queries
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Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT() IV
In SQL Server 2025, I run this code:
select bit_count('A')
What is returned? See possible answers