SQL Server 2008

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Book Review - MDX with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Analysis Services: Cookbook

Full Disclosure: I was one of the technical reviewers on this book. I think my friend Tomislav did a great job on this book and it would make a valuable addition to the bookshelf of anyone that is working with MDX. I really enjoyed reading this and there were even a couple of interesting techniques that I have added to my toolkit. As far as I know there are not any other MDX books on the market quite like this one. It's more aimed at the intermediate level of MDX user and assumes that you have some ......

Holy Cow Bat Man! –PASS Summit Keynote Day 1

Wow. There were a stack of announcements made at the key note. So I thought I would try to jot then down while I'm just waiting for my first technical session a Deep Dive on PowerPivot to start. The Parallel Data Warehouse Edition of SQL Server 2008 R2 has been released to manufacturing, there was a demo with a query over an 800 Billion record table that was returning in 19 seconds on a 40 node parallel cluster. Yahoo came up and talked about an SSAS cube of theirs, it's 12TB in size and they load ......

PowerSSAS v0.3.1.0 released

Today I put out a new release for PowerSSAS. This release adds the following new cmdlets: backup-ASDatabase clear-ASCache get-ASConnection get-ASRole restore-ASDatabase It also includes a Powershell v2 .psd1 module file and includes the option to just download a zip file which can be copied into a folder your modules folder. So you can now install PowerSSAS without needing to have admin privileges. There are instructions on installing PowerSSAS as a v2 module here. I have also done some preliminary ......

SSAS 2008 R2 – Improvements for slow Metadata

There was a thread last year on the SSAS MSDN forum SSAS 2008 -- Why is metadata so slow??? in relation to slow metadata queries on a cube with 250+ measure groups. The good news is that despite the fact that the SSAS team has largely been focussed on PowerPivot for the SQL Server 2008 R2 release, they have also tried to address a few of the customer pain points in SSAS. Below is part of a recent response to this thread from Akshai Mirchandani from the SSAS development team: "As an update to this ......

Book Review - Analysis Services 2008 Unleashed

Full Disclosure: I was lucky enough to be sent a free review copy by the publisher But... if I had not been sent a review copy I would have gone out and bought a copy of this book anyway. Why is that? Because I had purchased the previous edition and I knew that it would be the most in depth book on SSAS 2008 available. It has been written by members of the product team and contains a wealth of information that just could not come from any other source. I'm sure most of you have heard that Attribute ......

SSAS: Deploying to renamed databases

Last year I logged an issue on the connect site around deploying from BIDS and renamed databases. https://connect.microsoft.c... I got a couple of messages relating to this issue, one saying that it was being closed as it was a duplicate issue and then another one recently where it was updated to indicate that the issue has been fixed in SQL Server 2008. I think it is really great to get this sort of feedback that something is being done, unfortunately ......

Invalid namespace - Running SSRS against a named instance

I recently went to check the configuration of my SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services instance (which is a named instance called "SQL08") and it came up with a "connect" dialog and when I clicked on the "find" button I got an "invalid namespace" error. I found a few threads on the MSDN forums about this and eventually a Microsoft guy came up with a solution. The post at the end of this thread http://forums.microsoft.com... had the solution which worked for ......

Error 2738 while trying to install Adventure Works BI sample on Vista

When trying to install the Adventure Works 2008 sample database on my new SQL Server 2008 instance I very quickly got a message box about the installation failing with an error of 2738. For some reason this sounded familiar and sure enough a quick search turned up this post from Mitch (see: The error code is 2738) where he had the same error (with a different installer). It appears to be the same issue as the same fix worked for me and now I am up and running with the new sample database. Technorati ......

BIDS Helper 1.3 Released (now with support for SQL 2008)

I am pleased to announce that the BIDS Helper team have just released v1.3 which is our first release with support for SQL Server 2008. With these release we have also improved our international support. All of the features in BIDS Helper still only display in English in their user interfaces. But in previous versions, some of the features of would not work at all in non-English versions of BIDS because of the way we were integrating into BIDS. This has now been fixed and all of the features of BIDS ......

VS.NET 2008 SP1 is available

The download for VS.NET 2008 SP1 is available now: http://msdn.microsoft.com/e... This should fix the issue with running BIDS for SQL Server 2008 and VS.NET 2008. I'm downloading just downloaded it - it's tiny at about 500Kb, I hope it's not one of those "web install" stubs as I am going to be disconnected for most of the day and It's going to be frustrating if the SP stops installing part way through. Update: As I suspected, the tiny file was just a web download, there is ......

SQL Server 2008 has been released, but some BI developers will need to wait...

For those of use with MSDN or Technet subscriptions, SQL Server 2008 is available for download now and you have probably heard this from multiple sources already. (is there an echo in here?) But for anyone that wants to work with the BI tools and who already has VS.NET 2008 installed you will need to wait until VS.NET 2008 SP1 is released (see http://support.microsoft.co... which will hopefully only be a few days. This is because BIDS in 2008 is based on the VS.NET 2008 SP1 build. If you ......

Analysis Services Team Update posting on the MSDN forum

I just spotted an interesting post on the Analysis Services forum. It was titled "Analysis Services Team Update" and was posted by Ariel Netz, Group Program Manager for Analysis Services. He starts off with .. "I could never understand people’s fascination with blogs." ...which just begged to be blogged about. :) In it he talks about how Analysis Services is looking for the SQL Server 2008 "Katmai" release "In all honesty, things are looking good. In fact, looking very good (relative to where we ......

SSAS 2008: What's new in the Schema Rowsets?

I was asking myself this question recently and while I could not find anything in Books Online, it is not too hard to figure this out for ourselves. The following comparison was run between SSAS 2005 SP2 and the February CTP (CTP6) of SSAS 2008. I really love the way that you can discover the metadata in SSAS, all I had to do is to run a DISCOVER_SCHEMA_ROWSETS XML/A command against each server and then use XMLNotepad 2007 to compare the resulting XML. In the SQL Server 2008 you should find that ......

CTP6 and CU6 are now available - Follow-up

Just a quick follow-up on Chris Webb's recent post about the release of CTP6 for SQL 2008 and CU6 for SQL 2005. Chris mentions that there is still no suggestion that SP3 for SQL Server 2005 is in the works despite having released 6 cumulative update packs. If you would like to see a Service Pack 3 you can add your voice to the push for SP3 by voting for it on connect here: https://connect.microsoft.c... The other interesting thing about the release ......

SSIS Best Practices - SQL Down Under Code Camp 2007

This post is mainly for those people that were at my presentation at this years SQL Down Under Code Camp. I said that I would post the slides and the sample project (there are links at the end of this post) and here they are. a Powerpoint 2007 version of the presentation [link 2] a Powerpoint 97-2003 version of the presentation [link 2] and the sample project I was using for all the demos [link 2] Note: Some of the demos are using the trash destination and the data generation data source from www.sqlis.com ......

SQL Server Katmai public CTP released!

I got the following email from fellow MVP Greg Linwood on behalf of the Melbourne SQL Server User Group this morning which was taken from a posting by Ed Lehman from Microsoft in the private MVP newsgroup. I have not read any other feeds yet, but I imagine this news will be all over the web today. There will probably be a flood of information on Katmai, now that a release is publicly available. Enjoy! E D L E H M A N'S P O S T I N G This coming Monday, June 4, we will release the June CTP of Katmai. ......

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