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Reminder SQLPASS breakout–SQLCAT: Tier-1 BI in the world of Big Data

Posted in Analysis Services, BigData on October 10, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Okay kid, this is where it gets complicated. – Amy Pond from Doctor Who’s “The Big Bang” The SQL PASS Summit 2011 starts tomorrow and lots of craziness and technical learnings from SQL Karoke to the Birds of Feather luncheon.   Just a friendly reminder that on Thursday, October 13th, Thomas Kejser (@thomaskejser) and I – [...]

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Are you an Analysis Services rock star? Yahoo! is looking for you!

Posted in Analysis Services, tagged on May 24, 2011 | 2 Comments »

While I do not normally blog about job postings, this is definitely the exception to the rule.  And this is a pretty big exception as I’m talking about a Yahoo! job posting too (and for full disclosure – don’t forget that I’m with Microsoft). My compatriots over at Yahoo! have built one of the largest [...]

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At a Crossroads … from SSAS to BigData!

Posted in Analysis Services, BigData, tagged , on May 17, 2011 | 2 Comments »

“There must be some way out of here, said the joker to the thief / There’s too much confusion, I can’t get no relief” – Bob Dylan’s ‘All Along the Watchtower’ . For those not familiar with Battlestar Galactica – this is from Crossroads, Part 2 with Bear McCreary’s (@bearmccreary) amazing version of All Along [...]

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Announcing SSAS Maestros v1.2

Posted in Analysis Services, tagged , , on May 12, 2011 | 1 Comment »

In homage to the maestro, the Battlestar Galactica image links to Bear McCreary’s All Along The Watch Tower. Note, This is a re-post of Announcing SSAS Maestros v1.2 on the SQLCAT blog. — We are proud to announce that SQLCAT will continue with the SSAS Maestros course in June and July in Redmond and Madrid. [...]

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Why the obsession with random I/O within the context of SSAS?

Posted in Analysis Services, tagged on March 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

As many of you know from the various blogs, whitepapers, and conferences from SQLCAT, there is a big obsession or compulsion toward I/O by various members of SQLCAT.  If you’re not already familiar with this topic, definitely reference Mike Ruthruff’s whitepaper Predeployment I/O Best Practices. But as could be seen from the SSAS Maestros session [...]

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Using SQL Server PowerPivot for Excel to Analyze SAP Data

Posted in Analysis Services, PowerPivot, tagged , on January 28, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Sorry! I’ve been offline and haven’t blogged or responded to comments for quite some time and frankly I don’t have any good excuses: I fell asleep My dog ate my WordPress login account info (never mind that I don’t have a dog yet) I was working (yeah, right) I used the TARDIS to back in [...]

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Getting ready for enterprise SSAS and PowerPivot at PASS with SQLCAT!

Posted in Analysis Services, PowerPivot, tagged on November 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

If you’re online this week, and admittedly the last few weeks I have been extremely dormant, you may know that next week is the 2010 SQL Server PASS Summit!   It’s one of the most important SQL Server conferences and my team, SQLCAT,  will be out in force.  Heck, we’ll be in our green SQLCAT shirts [...]

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Analysis Services ROLAP for SQL Server Data Warehouses

Posted in Analysis Services, tagged , , , on August 24, 2010 | 2 Comments »

You’re sh*&ting me. No way. Man, that sucks. rocks! – Toby Lee Shavers, from XXX (2002), altered of course! And before you start, yes, I’m starting to follow the schtick of quotes from fellow PowerPivot bloggers Rob Collie (@PowerPivotPro) and Kasper de Jonge (@Kjonge).  For more memorable movie quotes, check out http://www.powerpivotpro.com/  . After about [...]

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PowerPivot, Analysis Services, and TechReady….and coffee!

Posted in Analysis Services, PowerPivot, tagged , on July 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

If you’re going to TechReady 11 at the Washington State Convention Center this week in warm, sunny Seattle – first of all, welcome to the Emerald City!  And if you’re a coffee snob like me (to give you background, not only am a long time Seattle resident so I pretty much breathe coffee – but [...]

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Scale-Out Querying with Analysis Services…does it apply to SQL Server 2008 or 2008 R2?

Posted in Analysis Services, tagged , on May 18, 2010 | 3 Comments »

I recently received a great question concerning the whitepaper Scale-Out Querying with Analysis Services: Question, does this also apply for SQL Server 2008? What are you experiences with the scale out? I’m in the process of recommending using this technology to a large customer of mine and want to make sure we are actually able [...]

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