Russell Christopher's Semi-Useful BI Musings

Last week I got all excited when I saw that PPS had launched - only to discover "launch" was really a marketing thing and there were no new bits to grab. Well, last night PerformancePoint actually shipped - And I have some links for you: To see...

Today at SQL PASS, Dell and Microsoft announced a new set of Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing solutions. They include a stack of server hardware, storage arrays, operating system, database and analytics software, management and reporting tools...

Mosha just announced the availability of a new tool he wrote called MDX Studio: MDX Studio is tool which helps users of Microsoft Analysis Services to analyze complex MDX expressions, monitor performance characteristics of MDX queries and get insight...

Right now I'm in Ocean Shores, WA for team meetings, so I won't be attending SQL PASS. However, if I was, I'd be sure to hit the SQL CAT sessions being presented: https://www.sqlpass.org/summit/Lists/2007%20Summit%20Sessions/SQL%20CAT%20Sessions.aspx...

It's been, what - 3 years? 4 years? since Reporting Services was released and I JUST stumbled upon this feature thanks to Chris Baldwin. If you end up in the unenviable position of having to reverse engineer a complex report that you didn't build and...