Topic: MDX
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Alberto Ferrari wrote about an interesting issue he discovered working on optimization of dimension process using materialized reference dimensions. I can understand SSAS behavior from a technical point of view, but it is not so obvious that an update Read more
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I was tempted to start this post by this sentence “Analysis Services 2008 is not a new full release of SSAS” but as you can see, I resisted to it! :) Ok, it’s a joke. However, how do you interpret the answer “In the next full release of SSAS” when I asked Read more
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Bart de Smet wrote a very interesting post about the possible creation of an Updateable LINQ provider, especially if it can be used for a SQL dbms (of course it would work with LINQ to SQL but it should be applicable to LINQ to Entities too). I like this Read more
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I looked at some of the Gemini comments wrote in the week-end. I'm sincerely worried about the possible abuse of this tool, just like everyone over there. However, I think that Microsoft shown Gemini so early (read my previous post about what Microsoft Read more
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I just found this useful Add-In for Excel 2007 that checks the compatibility of a spreadsheet for Excel Services publication. I'd like to get feedback if you know other similar tools and/or if you have experience with this one. Read more
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The first cumulative update for SQL Server 2008 has been shipped. It can be downloaded here . This cumulative update contains several hotfix released for AS2005 (CU8, CU9, CU10) but not included in SQL Server 2008 RTM. There is also some bug fixed. Read more
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Bart De Smet just wrote a long post about LINQ predicates that can be defined without returning a boolean value. This is something I partially evaluated writing the Programming Microsoft LINQ book, but in his post Bart goes very deep on this topic and Read more
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Paul Stovell made a presentation on " Reactive Programming and Bindable LINQ " at TechED Australia 2008 (unfortunately, I was at the antipode in Italy, but the topic is really interesting). I didn't know there are projects somewhat similar to Bindable Read more
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Ok, this could be partially off topic, but if you work on BI it is not. I will be a speaker at the Microsoft Sharepoint Conference 2008 in Milan (Italy) on 2 and 3 October 2008. I have one speech about building digital dashboards using SharePoint, Reporting Read more
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I just received a mail from Adam Machanic that pointed me to this bug (I would call it a performance issue) about the construction of SQL statements generated by the LINQ to SQL engine. The issue: every string passed as a constant in the query will be Read more