Russell Christopher's Semi-Useful BI Musings

The back- story: Once upon a time, when Reporting Services 2005 was just barely gold, one was able to use a “Select All” feature with multi-valued parameters. At first glance, it was a handsome, strapping feature. After a time, it became apparent...

Just a little while ago ASLoadSim was realeased on CodePlex. It "...contains a set of utilities used to generate a query load and test the scalability of Analysis Services server...". Sounds great to me! Included as part of the distro is an whitepaper...

CTP2 was just released, and can be downloaded at Microsoft Connect ( https://connect.microsoft.com/default.aspx ). Browsing thru the content, I see 32 and 64-bit versions of the product, sample data, and even training material!

I forgot about this one - Chris "Master Chief of MDX" Webb is among the contributors to the MDX Script Performance Analyzer: "...The MDX Script Performance Analyser allows the user to identify how much each calculated member, named set and scoped...

This doesn't have much to do with BI per se, but is interesting nonetheless - Looks like the SQL team is moving towards a more predictable release cycle for hotfixes. Kudos! http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/935356

Last week I mentioned that PerformacePoint CTP2 was ready for download ( http://blogs.msdn.com/bimusings/archive/2007/04/04/performancepoint-ctp2-now-available-for-download.aspx ). Well, late last week the fine folks on the PPS team updated the site again...