Project Gemini - building models and analysing data from Excelhttp://blogs.msdn.com/sqlcat/archive/2008/10/06/project-gemini-building-models-and-analysing-data-from-excel.aspxSaw an amazing BI demo this morning at the BI Conference here in Seattle. Donald Farmer showed how over 20M rows of data can be modeled and analyzed in memory. To build a model today, a DBA needs to define dimensions and fact tables, get the relationshipsen-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)The big news from MS BI Conference are outhttp://blogs.msdn.com/sqlcat/archive/2008/10/06/project-gemini-building-models-and-analysing-data-from-excel.aspx#8978302Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:17:16 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8978302Microsoft OLAP by Mosha Pasumansky<p>So there were two sets of announcements just made during Ted Kummert keynote. 1. Project “Madison” –</p> SQL Server Kilimanjaro and Project Madisonhttp://blogs.msdn.com/sqlcat/archive/2008/10/06/project-gemini-building-models-and-analysing-data-from-excel.aspx#8978413Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:58:52 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8978413WesleyB's Blog<p>Wikipedia says &quot;Kilimanjaro with its three volcanic cones, Kibo, Mawenzi, and Shira, is an inactive stratovolcano</p> The Gemini Projecthttp://blogs.msdn.com/sqlcat/archive/2008/10/06/project-gemini-building-models-and-analysing-data-from-excel.aspx#8993077Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:43:19 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8993077ronpih's weblog<p>For the past year and a half I've been working in the SQL Server Analysis Services team. This week, we</p> Microsoft BI Conference wrap-uphttp://blogs.msdn.com/sqlcat/archive/2008/10/06/project-gemini-building-models-and-analysing-data-from-excel.aspx#8998456Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:55:10 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8998456Norm's PerformancePoint Server Blog<p>What an incredible experience it was for me to meet so many customers. Thanks for sharing your experiences</p> Something Missing?http://blogs.msdn.com/sqlcat/archive/2008/10/06/project-gemini-building-models-and-analysing-data-from-excel.aspx#9014831Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:02:20 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9014831EditorsBlog<p>I think one of the features currently missing from the SQL Server Business Intelligence stack is a tool</p>