The Microsoft Business Intelligence Conference 2007 has been a good conference. Not very good, probably as a result of its success. Microsoft wanted to send the message “we are serious in the BI market” with this event. From my perception, half of attendees  Read more

Now that our presence as exhibitor is finished (Day 3 is only for keynote and breakout sessions), we can say that we had a great success! We distributed all the 300 copies of The Many-to-Many Revolution paper we printed just to show the kind of content  Read more

The first Microsoft BI Conference started today and we received a lot of people at our booth. Thank you to all the people who came to visit us!  Read more

Usually I blog about Business Intelligence, but BI is not the only field I work on. I born as developer and I recently co-authored a book about LINQ with Paolo: the title is Introducing Microsoft LINQ , we created a dedicated site where you can find blog  Read more

In the last two years I worked on advanced modeling with Analysis Services. One result of this was the paper ” The many-to-many revolution ” I released in September 2006. Since then, I got a lot of feedback and I have been working on other evolutions  Read more

Almost two months ago I wrote a post about the lack of multi-phase data pump control in Management Studio “legacy” user interface for DTS. Microsoft answered that documentation has the workaround I have found using RegEdit… In the meantime, I received  Read more

Chris Webb has recently released a really interesting tool: MDX Script Performance Analyzer . It’s a really interesting idea that will save me (and you) a lot of time trying to understand the root of a performance issue into an MDX Script of a cube. Thank  Read more

I just posted this bug on the Microsoft Connect site. Please vote it if you think it would be a useful change. This is the issue description. If you set the”Aggregation Usage” to true for an attribute of a dimension (i.e. Customer), you cannot run the  Read more

I found an interesting “how-to” guide to Excel 2007 Pivot Table. It is a sample chapter from the Pivot Table Data Crunching for Microsoft Office Excel 2007 book. Probably not all the described feature are available in a Pivot Table attached to an Analysis  Read more

I have been notified of this strange bug in Analysis Services 2005 that is easily reproducable. ****************************************************************** PLEASE DO NOT TRY THIS TEST ON A PRODUCTION SERVER! IT HANGS ANALYSIS SERVICES!!! ******************************************************************  Read more