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I and Paolo Pialorsi have been interviewed at TechEd by Ken Rosen. We talked about our experience as book authors of Programming LINQ . If you are interested in writing a book, or if you simply want to see our faces and hear our italian accent, you can Read more
TechEd 2008 book
I’m already in Orlando for TechEd 2008 Developers . Tomorrow I and Paolo Pialorsi will be at the TechEd bookshop for a book signing of our just released Programming Microsoft LINQ , scheduled at 4:00PM-4:30PM. I wrote a post a few days a go with the list Read more
Programming Microsoft LINQ finally shipping
Finally, the Programming Microsoft LINQ book is available . We (I and Paolo Pialorsi, the other author) updated the website that supports our books ( http://programminglinq.com ), where you can download the sample code of the book. What’s in this book? Read more
Multiple Hierarchies from SQLCAT
I’m still late with blog reading and sometimes I discover interesting things one or two months later than the original posting. I just read the SQLCAT analysis of the several solutions available to handle multiple parent-child hierarchies within a single Read more
Many-to-Many Session at European PASS Conference 2008
I’ll be a speaker at the European PASS Conference 2008 next week in Dusseldorf. I will talk about advanced dimensional modeling using many-to-many relationship. The content is based on ” The many-to-many revolution ” paper I wrote two years ago. If you Read more
LINQ to extract object permission from SSAS
Yesterday one customer of mine encountered the issue described in KB933836 and posted also by Chris Webb . UPDATE: you can use the SQL Server 2008 version of the Analysis Services Deployment Wizard to deploy a project to a SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services Read more
PASS Europe 2008 and many-to-many relationships
It’s a shame I haven’t blogged for two months, but I’ve been really (I mean – REALLY) busy finishing the upcoming Microsoft Programming LINQ book . Now I’m coming back to my BI world and the first news is that I’ll speak about SSAS models based on many-to-many Read more
Many-to-Many Dimensions: Query Performance Optimization Techniques
More than one year ago I published a paper about design patterns for many-to-many dimension relationships . Since then, I built other models and I got more experience about possible performance optimizations. Unfortunately, I still hadn’t time to write Read more
Free Introducing LINQ book
Usually I write in this blog about Business Intelligence without too much consideration for “traditional” access to SQL Server. However, in a parallel universe I also wrote a book about LINQ and now that we are in full Christmas mode, I hope you may be Read more
Real Report Builder 2008 improvements for Analysis Services
Brian Welcker (who is leaving SSRS team – good luck Brian!) has announced a long explanation of the Report Builder 2008 positioning . For me (and all of you who live in the multidimensional business…) the most important part of the post is this simple Read more