T-SQL Tuesday: A Day in the Life of a BI Developer
My name is Jennifer and I am a Business Intelligence developer at Trek Bicycles. I’ve been a BI developer for...
2012-07-17
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Salvo(z) SQL
MDX ClosingPeriod and PeriodsToDate
I’ve decided that the best way to spend a day of 104 degree weather is to sit inside and write...
2012-07-07
1,277 reads
MDX ‘Is’ Operator
I recently encountered a business scenario involving calculated members in a cube that I thought is worth sharing.
We have a...
2012-07-04
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SSAS: Duplicate Attribute Key Error
One type of error that arises occasionally during SSAS cube processing is the ‘duplicate attribute key’ error. The error message...
2012-05-07
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SSAS: Processing Cube Dimensions and Measures in SSMS
My co-worker showed me an easy way to process all SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS)cube dimensions (or measures) from the...
2012-04-02
4,332 reads
SSIS: Script Component Asynchronous Transformation
The SSIS script component can be configured to use synchronous or asynchronous outputs. If the script component is configured for...
2012-03-20
8,130 reads
SSAS: Currency Conversion in MDX Script
In my prior blog post, I provided some details regarding currency conversion via measure expressions in SSAS. I recently attempted...
2012-02-09
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SSAS: Currency Conversion Using Measure Expressions
Currency conversions can be implemented several ways as part of a business intelligence solution. In some scenarios it may be...
2012-02-01
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Blogs
Identity Columns Can’t Be Updated: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I’m not sure I knew identity column values could not be updated. I ran...
Rolling Back a Broken Release
By Steve Jones
We had an interesting discussion about deployments in databases and how you go forward...
A bespoke reporting solution doesn’t have to cost the earth
By ChrisJenkins
You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
Forums
Can someone please explain what happens?
I have mentioned this several times over several years. Can someone please help me...
SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT) returns null when nothing is found instead of 0
SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT Component) AS Found FROM tblComponents WHERE(Component NOT LIKE '%[a-z]%') AND(LTRIM(RTRIM(Component)) = 'GM13622')...
Remotely Engineer Fabric Lakehouse objects: The Fabric Modern Data Platform
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Remotely Engineer Fabric Lakehouse objects:...
Question of the Day
Creating JSON III
In a SQL Server 2025 table, called Beer, I have this data:
BeerIDBeerName 1Becks 2Fat Tire 3Mac n Jacks 4Alaskan Amber 8KirinI run this code:
SELECT JSON_OBJECTAGG(
BeerID: BeerName )
FROM beer;
What are the results? See possible answers