<rant mode="funny"> Most of the time I submitted an issue to Microsoft Connect, I got a "it's by design" answer. I've been always irritated by this sentence because they don't admit in this way that they have a bug. Today, I understood I'm wrong.  Read more

The last news is the acquisition of DATAllegro by Microsoft . From a server point of view, Microsoft is doing well (even if not fast as I'd like). But is on the client side that I (and many other customers) are disappointed. I totally agree with the post  Read more

Eric White has written an interesting post titled "Are developers using LINQ?" - there are interesting considerations about the adoption of functional programming too, but the most interesting part for me is the list of comment of the post. A lot of people  Read more

Mosha released a new version of MDX Studio (0.4) , which offers an "MDX Analysis" function that suggest best practices for a given MDX query. I tried the tool with some MDX query and it offers very good suggestion (when possible with link to further information  Read more

Two sample chapters of my Programming Microsoft LINQ book are finally available. Links to download pages in the chapters title. Chapter 6 - Tools for LINQ to SQL In this chapter, we took a look at the tools that are available to generate LINQ to SQL entities  Read more

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

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

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

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

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