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February 2007 Entries

The Daily WTF

Recently becoming a reader of this interesting website I urge all of you to see the curious perversions of technology! http://www.thedailywtf.com is where you want to go
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The FSF - Good and the Bad

Recently I was on the FSF browsing about when I found quite an interesting website:


ROLAP vs. MOLAP - A statistical case study

I work as a systems developer at a large food manufacturing firm in Australia. Recently we have been fighting with Microsoft's Analysis Services about a certain cube we were wanting processed. The quick details - Database size: 25.6Gb Dimensions: 9 Storage Model: MOLAP The data was the entire set of sales figures for the years 2002 to present in weekly installments. We had to process this cube during off-peak hours as the server it was running on was a high-demand corporate server. Taking this into...
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