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Date for Denver Partner MS BI Presentation 08 April 08 06:18 PM | psprag | 0 Comments: Michael Patterson and I will be in Denver May 21, 2008. Location and time TBD. I will post an update as that information becomes available. My presentation will focus on creating high quality assisted evaluations to better demonstrate the MS BI stack Read More...

Filed under: MS BI, Training, Cube Design
Building Great Cubes: Tip 2 - Time Matters, part 1 04 April 08 08:23 PM | psprag | 2 Comments: One common theme I see in Analysis Services cubes as I visit partners and customers is large time dimensions. In the last year alone I have seen at least 10 cubes that have had time dimensions that extended past 2010. None of these cubes had facts associated Read More...

Filed under: SSAS, MS BI, Cube Design
Building Great Cubes: Tip 1 - Less is More 04 April 08 06:23 PM | psprag | 1 Comments: I have been seeing a lot of the cubes recently that look very similar despite being created independently by different customers and partners across the US and Canada. They always looks something like this: 5 or 6 dimensions with few or no natural hierarchies Read More...

Filed under: PPS, ProClarity, SSAS, MS BI, Cube Design