As I mentioned in my TechEd Memoirs post, Microsoft is scaling back from the “super” cube approach in favor of more granular data “islands”. Since this took me by suprise, I approached the SSAS team for clarification. Here are the answers I managed to get: 1. What performance benefits could be realized by splitting UDM in data islands? At this point, we don't have detailed…
Read articleIf you’ve been using VS.NET 2005 for a while chances are that your debugging session could have been spectacularly crashing just when you thought you were so close finding that elusive critical bug. This situation may have manifested with the following exception: ContextSwitchDeadlock was detectedMessage: The CLR has been unable to transition from COM context <some nasty hex number> to COM context <another nasty hex…
Read articleTechEd 2006 US is over. Given the fact that VS.NET 2005, .NET 2.0, and SQL Server 2005 have matured, there weren’t many earth-shuttering announcements and cool demos. Anyway, here are some of the most interesting BI highlights written in the plane on my way home. Brian Welcker told us that RS SP2 (CTP scheduled for November, final release alongside Office 2007 launch) will bring a…
Read articleI am gradually tuning to the TechEd wave. I am leaving for Boston on Monday. I hope those of you who will attend TechEd will stop by to my session “Building Reporting Solutions with Reporting Services and Analysis Services”. I’ve already uploaded the slides and code to my website. The presentation is currently scheduled for 8 am on Thursday, June 15th in room 210. As the…
Read articleHere is something that has recently bit me really bad. Customer requirements called for implementing an in-house report designer to create report definitions. Expired by the VS.NET 2005 Report Designer, we decided to implement a part of the tool as a WYSWYG designer using the design-time infrastructure (IDesignerHost) in .NET 2.0. If you don’t know what I am talking about, read the excellent Dinesh Chandnani's…
Read articleAn interesting article on TDWI about PerformancePoint Server.
Read articleAs a follow-up to previous post, during the webcast Microsoft announced a new product called PerformancePoint Server due to be released in mid-2007 alongside Office 2007. PerformancePoint will be a convergent product of Scorecard Manager, ProClarity, and Biz# (yes, Microsoft finally let the cat out of the bag about the strictly confidential so far Biz# initiative). The product will be designed as a web-based portal and…
Read articleJeff Raikes, President of Microsoft's Business Division and Lewis Levin, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft's Office Business Applications Group, will present a Live Meeting webcast at 11 am (PDT) regarding Microsoft's Business Intelligence product roadmap. Click here to register.
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