Monthly Archives: October 2011

Miss SQLBits 9? No problem, all videos are online

Posted on October 31, 2011 by

All the videos for this popular conference are online or will be soon (48 of them). Take a look at the recorded sessions at http://sqlbits.com/content/Event9.  All are free to watch!  The one’s on my list to watch (because I’m interested in SQL Server … Continue reading →

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SQL Server Analysis Services Performance Guide published

Posted on October 28, 2011 by

Another must read white-paper: Analysis Services 2008 R2 Performance Guide. This white paper describes how business intelligence developers can apply query and processing performance-tuning techniques to their Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Analysis Services OLAP solutions.  It applies to SQL Server … Continue reading →

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Miss TechEd Australia 2011? No problem, all videos are online

Posted on October 26, 2011 by

As you may know, the TechEd in the U.S. is not the only one.  There have been many all over the world, and it 2011 there have been one’s in New Zealand, Australia, and next month in Russia.  The Australia and New … Continue reading →

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What is Microsoft TAP and RDP?

Posted on October 24, 2011 by

Technology Adoption Program (TAP) and Rapid Deployment Program (RDP) are ways for Microsoft to get early feedback on new products or product updates as well as give important customers a heads-up on what Microsoft is up to.  Participation is by invitation only (usually … Continue reading →

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SSIS – Can’t Enable/Disable within Data Flow Tab

Posted on October 21, 2011 by

This is my biggest gripe with SSIS: I have a data flow task, and within that I’m pulling data from multiple sources into multiple destinations, with a few performing data flow transformations.  While testing, I want to disable some of … Continue reading →

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Microsoft and HP’s Database Consolidation Appliance

Posted on October 19, 2011 by

Microsoft and HP have announced another appliance, called the Database Consolidation Appliance (DBC) (see my blog about the other two appliances).  In short, this appliance consolidates databases into a single, virtual environment. In more detail: Many customers continue to struggle with … Continue reading →

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Performance tips for SSAS

Posted on October 17, 2011 by

Over the past few years I have developed a list of ways to improve performance in SSAS and in two of the tools that use it: ProClarity and PerformancePoint.  Below are those performance tips along with other important items to be … Continue reading →

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Formula engine and storage engine in SSAS

Posted on October 14, 2011 by

In SSAS, to improve query performance, it’s important to understand what happens inside analysis services when a query is run.  Analysis Services is made up of two engines: Formula Engine (FE) – It is single-threaded.  It processes the MDX queries, determines what data is needed … Continue reading →

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SQL Server 2012 and other PASS announcements

Posted on October 13, 2011 by

Some announcements and notes from SQL PASS Summit 2011, going on this week: It was announced that the official name of the SQL Server “Denali” product is SQL Server 2012 and will be released in the first half of the year 2012.  There … Continue reading →

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Error configuration in SSAS

Posted on October 12, 2011 by

In SSAS, there is an Error Configuration object that is central to the management of data integrity errors. The following picture shows the ErrorConfiguration properties for a cube: There are numerous objects where you can specify the error configuration via … Continue reading →

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