Performance Point – the Good and the Bad – Part 1
This posting presumes the reader has at least a basic understanding of what Microsoft’s Performance Point (PP) offering is, at least at the level of wanting to assess whether it is appropriate for your...
View ArticlePerformance Point – the Good and the Bad – Part 2
This is Part 2 of Performance Point – the Good and the Bad – Part 1, which can be found at http://blog.tallan.com/2012/12/16/performance-point-the-good-and-the-bad/ That article focused on the good...
View ArticleAccounting for Database Developers
I’ll be giving a presentation on the somewhat unlikely subject of the title at the next NYC SQL Saturday at Microsoft HQ on May 30, 2015. It will be a largely non-technical, non-demo presentation...
View ArticleObservations on July 2015 PowerBI Release
The following observations come from the NYC SQL Server Meetup 9/1/2015 presented by Devin Knight of Pragmatic Works, augmented with my own discoveries. They assume the reader has basic familiarity...
View ArticleOverview of Bi-temporal Data Concepts – Part 1
Introduction This post is the first of a series providing an overview of “bi-temporal data management” and contrasting it with the current standard approach in data warehousing for tracking historical...
View ArticleSQL Server Analysis Services Multidimensional vs Tabular
It is no secret that Microsoft is moving away from the original “Multidimensional” (MD) flavor of Analysis Services, instead focusing all efforts on the new “Tabular” (Tab) flavor. This drives the...
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Part 1 – Analysis Services Multidimensional: “A duplicate attribute key has...
Introduction – Part 1 The most common and dreaded error that may occur when processing a dimension in Analysis Services Multidimensional (MD) is undoubtedly “Errors in the OLAP storage engine: A...
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Part 2 – Analysis Services Multidimensional: “A duplicate attribute key has...
Introduction – Part 2 Part 1 of this post focused on the first category of how the Analysis Services Multidimensional (MD) duplicate attribute key error can arise. It reflects the perspective of an...
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AlwaysOn Backup and Other Tips
Introduction SQL Server’s AlwaysOn technology (available since SQL Server 2012) provides high-availability and disaster-recovery database functionality which largely supplants mirroring and...
View ArticleMigrating SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)
For most Microsoft IT professionals, migrating or updating a native mode SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) installation from one version to another is a rare, if not once-in-a-lifetime, event – and...
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