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So, you have a SSAS 2005 (SQL Server Analysis Services) Cube, and its not performing how you want it to. What do you do?
The first thing to look at is your attribute relationships (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms174557.aspx). Make sure you don’t have redundant relationships (AS should warn you as well) By default when you create a cube, and [...]

A friend was complaining going on about how Windows looks bad and Macs just look so cool, yadda yadda, and as I dug in deeper, it was like, “oooh the pretty icons at the bottom” and stuff like that.
So, I decided to look into options for Windows with a dock at the bottom. I know [...]

Everyone talks about how the applications within Facebook are awesome, which is true, they are, but they add on to Facebook. One app that I rarely hear about or see used though, the Toolbar for Firefox (http://developers.facebook.com/toolbar/)
This toolbar is awesome. If you have Firefox open, which throughout the day you usually do - it [...]

A friend wanted KINK.fm’s Live Ten CD, that came out at Starbucks this weekend. I just happened to be at Starbucks yesterday out in no man’s land Barbur Ave, and they had some copies left, so I picked one up. I just ripped it to my computer, but no album art. I got fancy and [...]

Today, I re-read this best practices article on MSDN - Scale-Out Querying with Analysis Services
The architecture they talk about makes sense. Multiple web servers on the front end, a “query” layer, and processing layer. One thing that I don’t get though is how a setup like that can only support 30-60 concurrent users. I guess [...]

The other day, the Windows Live team came out with the Windows Live Installer which basically incorporates all the Windows Live programs into one installer, pretty nice.
Few things though..
1) You can uninstall the installer and it doesn’t ask you to uninstall any of the programs it installed
2) When you run it, it takes forever to [...]

No matter what you do around town in Portland, it always seems there is beer involved. I blogged about getting shoes before, where they had beer. Today I went to get a haircut at Bishops Barbershop, they had beer. Of course there is beer everywhere else, microbrews flowing, within 10-15 min walking distance from my [...]

Almost as bad as this…
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Yesterday and today you could almost hear the collective “waaaaaaa” from the suckers who bought iPhones in the past 67 days. “Mommy I bought a new toy but now it’s cheaper! Do something!!”
Well the whining got them a $100 iCoupon, but still, come on. Apple, open up the phone to all carriers, add 3G, [...]

A reader sent me an email this weekend:
I wonder if I could as your advice as a BI / Data warehousing specialist.I have been studying Analysis Services recently having read a couple of books Which step me through the process of building the cubes etc but as I don’t come From a DB background one [...]