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  • I and Alberto will present the SQLBI Methodology session at PASS Summit 2009 . After the very good feedback we got at the European PASS Conference 2009 , we will have the big opportunity to discuss this methodology in front of a broader audience. In the  Read more

  • A few days ago, I talked about Oslo and metadata issues with BI stack . I got several comments and the discussions it's interesting, but as I said it is too early now to use Oslo - but it could be a foundation for a future product. As a side note, today  Read more

  • We (I found the issue, Chris created the repro) detected a possible bug using DirectSlice and MeasureExpression. We just posted it here: https://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=455732 The issue could be very dangerous  Read more

  • You know, today Microsoft doesn't have a solution to handle metadata of a BI Solution. Really, they don't have nothing to handle a single layer of the architecture like the Data Warehouse. In a (how much near?) future this gap could be filled by using  Read more

  • Today I ran into a nice misfeature of SSIS that worths sharing. If I want to use SSIS to sort a flow of data, containing both lowecase and uppercase strings, I would expect a standard behaviour or, at least, something with some “common sense”. As I am  Read more

  • European PASS 2009

    Guys, I’m excited of being a speaker at the European PASS Conference 2009 (April 22-24, 2009 - Neuss, Germany). I will present three sessions, on Slowly Changing Dimension Handling, OLAP partitioning with SSIS and scripts and, most interesting (at least  Read more

  • Even this year I will be a speaker at the European PASS Conference 2009 (April 22-24, 2009 - Neuss, Germany). Last year I had a session discussing the Many-to-Many Revolution paper. This year I'm excited to introduce the SQLBI Methodology joining Alberto  Read more

  • Almost two years ago I wrote a post about the abuse of the "it's by design" answer Microsoft gives to many bugs. You know, I think that a bug in design produces the same results (if not worst) than a bug in implementation. I also had a long discussion  Read more

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