Parent-child dimensions are a very useful feature of Analysis Services to model recursive hierarchies, such as an organizational hierarchy. Recently, I had to apply dimension data security to a parent-child […]
If you have worked with Analysis Services dimension data security for a while, you know that MDX allowed/denied set expressions can become rather complex. You might be tempted to externalize […]
All TechEd 2011 breakout sessions are available online on MSDN Channel9 website. Here the links to mine: Top 10 Reasons to Upgrade to Microsoft SQL Server 2008/R2 Reporting Services Can […]
While I’ve been busy at TechEd talking to BI enthusiasts, professionals and wannabes and delivering sessions, the news is out about the new BI roadmap and BISM positioning. See: T.K. […]
The slides and source code for my TechEd 2011 North America session are available for download on the Prologika website (requires registration). If you haven’t registered, please click the Join […]
Watching the TechEd keynote during which it was announced that we have some 10,000 people attending TechEd this year. On the BI side of things, Amir Netz, Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft, came on […]
My TechEd sessions got finalized. This would be my sixth TechEd to go to and present at (this one conveniently located in my home city). This time I am honored […]
After dropping the Microsoft Business Intelligence Indexing Connector, Microsoft is working on an advanced content crawler, code-named Project Barcelona, that will index BI content, such as SQL Server, Excel, SharePoint, […]
I’ve made a decision. My next book will be Applied Kerberos BI. Jokes aside, I’ve been doing a lot of security work lately to get Kerberos working for internal and […]
I had a laptop which blue screened and shut down. Some files got corrupted and fixed by the CheckDisk. Apparently, something got whacked during the process because the Analysis Services […]
