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18 July 2009 16:28

SSAS: Microsoft release fix for “Kerberos killing MDX” issue

In a previous post I reported how small MDX queries worked fine when client and server were Windows Vista/Windows Server 2008 but large MDX queries died due to the connection been forcibly closed by the transport layer. It turned out that this issue was...
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28 March 2009 23:05

SSAS: Kerberos kills ‘large’ MDX queries on Windows Server 2008

Kerberos kills MDX queries on Windows Server 2008 / SQL Server 2008 implementations...
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17 November 2008 13:53

SSAS writeback error was ‘an accident with a contraceptive and a time machine’

Those of you that heard the hit radio series 'The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy' or read Douglas Adams' book will recognise the title of my blog entry as been the reason quoted by Zaphod when asked to explain why he was Zaphod Beeblebrox...
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23 April 2008 14:17

SSAS Stored Procedures - connecting to the transactional data source

There are often circumstances where an SSAS stored procedure needs to connect to the transactional database to perform a query. This is certainly the case in a near-real-time OLAP solution where the cube sits directly on top of the application database...
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22 April 2008 06:13

The FACT is that it is not so DIM after all

I have always looked down upon the Fact and Dim prefixes applied to the tables within the AdventureWorksDW database with derision. "Why," I asked myself, "would anyone feel the need to use such prefixes? Clearly this is BI for dummies."...
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03 December 2007 22:09

SSAS: Working with date and time measures to calculate average elapse time

This post describes how to create a date / time measure in Analysis Services in order to calculate average elapse time. ...
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