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SQL Server and Business Intelligence

SQL Server and Business Intelligence

http://www.sidatkinson.com

This blog covers Microsoft SQL Server technology and Business Intelligence implementation and practice. I also go into ETL, data warehousing and dimensional modeling.

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  • SSAS tools: mdx studio

    Posted on Tuesday November 17th, 2009 at 16:39 in ssas

    So many good tools out there, and yet not all of them get noticed….. At the SQL Pass conference the week before, I attended one of the classes by the Microsoft CSS groups on common Analysis Services support issues.  While not the best presentatio...

  • Sharepoint server 2010 Insights

    Posted on Wednesday October 28th, 2009 at 15:57 in insights, sharepoint, performancepoint services

    You may or may not have heard by now that the business intelligence capability in SharePoint 2010 now has a platform branding called INSIGHTS. I will blog more about the features in my “down time” at the SQL PASS conference next week,...

  • SSIS on a cluster

    Posted on Thursday October 15th, 2009 at 15:25 in ssis

    I figured this was worth a quick post: while many of SQL Server’s aspects are cluster aware, SSIS is not. Why? My guess is that there is not a pressing business need for this to be a cluster aware service – while many companies have vital...

  • Awesome speaker for our next BI User group!!

    Posted on Monday September 14th, 2009 at 16:45 in business intelligence, ssas

    I am excited to announce that we have secured a great speaker for our next Central Texas Business Intelligence User Group meeting on October 21st at the Microsoft office in Austin. Bryan C. Smith, prolific SSAS author and now of Microsoft fame, wi...

  • Design Tip - Analysis Services Aggregations

    Posted on Monday August 17th, 2009 at 12:17 in ssas

    I was cleaning up a cube design for a customer, primarily working with the current implementation to resolve some performance issues and make some minor alterations to the dimensions, when I ran across an aggravation in designing aggregations for the...

  • Reminder: BI User Group meeting August 13th!

    Posted on Thursday August 6th, 2009 at 16:53 in business intelligence

    Reminder, we are having our next Central Texas Microsoft Business Intelligence User Group meeting a week from today, August 13th, 2009 from 6:00pm to 8:00pm at the Microsoft Austin office. Session Topic: "PerformancePoint Monitoring and Analytic...

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