After all the years of working on enterprise Analysis Services implementations, there were definitely some raised eyebrows when I had started running around with my MacBook Air on the merits of Hadoop – and Hadoop in the Cloud for that matter. It got a little worse when I was hinting at the shift to Big Data: At a Crossroads … from SSAS to BigData! Revelations – rolling the hard six to SQL BI and Hadoop It sounded strange until we had announced during the PASS 2011 Day One Keynote which I also called out in my post Connecting PowerPivot to…
Month: June 2012
Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services Multidimensional Performance and Operations Guide
A while back, Thomas Kejser (@thomaskejser | http://blog.kejser.org/) and I had written a couple cool guides on Analysis Services Multidimensional: SQL Server 2008R2 Analysis Services Operations Guide Analysis Services 2008 R2 Performance Guide To make it easier to consume, Technet has created a new series of E-books which can be found in the E-Book Gallery for Microsoft Technologies. Included in the first series of eBooks, you can find the combined Performance and Operations Guides in the links below. Description Download this book to learn about Analysis Services Multidimensional performance tuning from an operational and development perspective. This book consolidates…
Hadoop Summit and all hail screen sharing!
Presenting for the first time at Hadoop Summit was a serious thrill and this was just Day 1! Just as a refresher, Dave Mariani (@dmarini) from Klout and I got the awesome opportunity to present How Klout is changing the landscape of social media with Hadoop and BI (session info | meet the presenters). It was fun to talk about how Klout uses Flume, Scala, node.js, Hadoop/Hive, and AJAX to work together with an Analysis Services cube to gain powerful insight. Our theme: Hadoop and BI – better together As well, it was great to meet so many of…
Denny Lee 