Comments on: About me http://dennyglee.com Ramblings of a data dork: from BI and Big Data to Travel and Food Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:42:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Flávio Clésio (@flavioclesio) http://dennyglee.com/about/#comment-5576 Sun, 04 Dec 2011 00:01:37 +0000 #comment-5576 Hi Danny, I read about Maestro Program, but I didn’t see in the Microsoft Official site any kind of Pre-Requisites. Do you have any kind of information about it? Thx!

]]> By: Mark Zudeck http://dennyglee.com/about/#comment-5387 Tue, 02 Aug 2011 19:52:55 +0000 #comment-5387 This is resolved, yes. Thank!
- Mark Z.

]]> By: dennyglee http://dennyglee.com/about/#comment-5378 Sat, 23 Jul 2011 03:13:44 +0000 #comment-5378 As per the thread, I take it that this has been resolved now?

]]> By: Mark Zudeck http://dennyglee.com/about/#comment-5373 Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:14:06 +0000 #comment-5373 Hello,

I posted the following in the MSDN Forums Database Engine section:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sqldatabaseengine/thread/13650610-c9eb-4954-ae64-6022f789de1c

One of my replies there references your book “Professional Microsoft® PowerPivot for Excel® and SharePoint®”. The steps in the book say to install SQL 2008 R2 and the Contoso BI sample database. However, my attempt at restoring the .bak file fails with the error described in the forum question.

I assume that you must have been able to make this database work with R2. Can you please tell me how?

Thanks.
Mark Z

]]> By: ilyas http://dennyglee.com/about/#comment-5350 Wed, 01 Jun 2011 23:50:02 +0000 #comment-5350 cool

]]> By: dennyglee http://dennyglee.com/about/#comment-5310 Tue, 22 Mar 2011 14:16:40 +0000 #comment-5310 There are a number of ways to synchronize data between environments – check out “Analysis Services Synchronization Best Practices” at: http://sqlcat.com/technicalnotes/archive/2008/03/16/analysis-services-synchronization-best-practices.aspx. This should handle both the migration aspect (presuming they are all using the same data source, otherwise perhaps just deploy the cube XMLA) and the DR environment. HTH!

]]> By: Dave Fan http://dennyglee.com/about/#comment-5308 Mon, 14 Mar 2011 20:29:26 +0000 #comment-5308 Hey Denny

I’m fairly new to SSAS and you kind of look like the bigges expert I have seen on the web so I am hoping you can help me. I am trying to determine the best/least manual way to

1. Migrate SSAS content across environments i.e. Dev -> Staging – Production

2. Create a DR environment that mirrors the Prod environment.

Through my research I have seen many different ways to do the migration however I am looking for your recommendation on which one to implement. So far it looks like Syncing servers is the best. If you have any advice and a link to good articles to explain it would be greatly appreciated !!!!!! Thanks

]]> By: dennyglee http://dennyglee.com/about/#comment-343 Thu, 21 Oct 2010 05:18:41 +0000 #comment-343 Actually data warehouses are not a requirement for PowerPivot. PowerPivot is really about using Excel as your analysis tool – it allows the power Excel user to perform complex queries against large volumes of data right from their own desktop. Underneath it all, a VertiPaq cube is being created and queryed against – but this is transparent to the user. As for a data warehouse, it would be a good source for your PowerPivot workbook, but it is not necessary. In addition to database, PowerPivot can query text files, reports, Excel workbooks, etc. So using the Contoso sample database is just about providing you a sample system for PowerPivot to query. But it isn’t entirely necessary – atleast from the standpoint of PowerPivot.

]]> By: dennyglee http://dennyglee.com/about/#comment-342 Thu, 21 Oct 2010 05:15:59 +0000 #comment-342 That’s a little surprising to see R2 synchronizations run longer than 2008. If you are consistently seeing this, I would open up a case at http://connect.microsoft.com/sqlserver and provide Profiler traces of the two scenarios to showcase why this is happening. As for memory management and configurations, it’s pretty much the same between 2008 and 2008 R2. As for consultants, there are quite a few of them that are out there; but at this time I cannot say as I do not want reveal any bias. Sorry!

]]> By: anna http://dennyglee.com/about/#comment-336 Fri, 08 Oct 2010 13:39:33 +0000 #comment-336 Hi, Denny

I got your book Microsoft PowerPivot for Excel and Sharepoint, and I started to read it. I don’t have much experience with this, so I want to know about data warehouses and PowerPivot? I don’t understand that concept, for example my company wants to implement PowerPivot, so do we need to create data warehouse or data mart (SQL 2008 R2) and create tables for example like those from Contoso sample database to put it on that server or we can use already existing Excel sheets and data of our company? Any help to understand this, please

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