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Memory Settings on SQL Server and Analysis Services
I’ve recently been working in a development environment in which database services and Analysis Services are sharing the same server. We’re in the fortunate position of having a hugely powerful...
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A Better Date Dimension
This requirement has come up a couple of times but I have only just thought of a solution. How can your date dimension support lots of different calendars (standard January – December Gregorian,...
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A Better Date Dimension – Modelling in Analysis Services
Hopefully you are continuing from part one of this post. If you have run the script to create and populate your date, calendar and bridge tables you can go ahead and add the tables to your Analysis...
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Kerberos in a Clustered and Load Balanced BI Deployment
As if it weren’t hard enough getting Kerberos delegation to work properly in your average business intelligence distributed architecture, there is another level of knowledge required when you’re...
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Handling and Tuning Really Large Analysis Services Cubes
Until recently, the largest SSAS cube I had worked with was around 500gb – part of the BI solution at a big retailer. But recently I built a cube that almost hit the terabyte mark – 911 gigabytes when...
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