I have a fact table in my data warehouse that tracks durations of certain events as the total number of seconds that have passed. When users browse the cube, I’d like to show these durations formatted as time using the hh:mm:ss format. How can I do this in Analysis Services (SSAS)? - Koen Verbeeck responds.
This Friday Steve Jones has another fun poll. A question on the geek costume that might excite you the most.
There’s a joke doing the rounds at SQL conferences and seminars: three DBAs walk into a NoSQL bar and leave when they can’t find a table. You may have heard it before, but it made Matt Hilbert sit down and ponder. What’s happening? Is there a division opening up between the newly fashionable NoSQL followers and DBAs? Matt enters the world of NoSQL to investigate.
How to compare two databases and email the results to every one who needs to know
Continuing on with his series on reporting for your SQL Server, David Bird brings together the series with the full package used for building the report.s
What do people do when their job doesn't require a lot of technical skills? Steve Jones has a few thoughts.
This lesson explains how to Clean Data, Explore Data, get Samples of Data, Classify and query a Data Mining Model.
This lesson explains how to Clean Data, Explore Data, get Samples of Data, Classify and query a Data Mining Model.
Salaries for data professionals have risen quite a bit, according to the latest salary survey. That's good for those of us working with SQL Server.
As a society, we have an unrealistic respect for data, especially if it has a decimal point somewhere and uses metric units. We who are in the business of data need to cultivate a renewed interest in the sceptical and rigorous science of statistics: it is too important to leave to 'Data Scientists'. If the data is wrong, or the way we analyse or report it is misleading, much of what we do is pointless.
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