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This post will show a new KB (Knowledge Base) being trained using the new feature via domain management which allows the KB to import the knowledge gained from a cleansing project. In the previous release, CTP3, the KB was trained using Knowledge Discovery...
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There’s been a whole host of changes to MDS in the SQL Server 2012 RC (Release Candidate) 0 that came out the other week. This blog post gives an overview of the changes, before diving into detail on a few of them. At a high level, the following changes...
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Power View includes several ways to create visualisations with images, ranging from a simple table, to the scrollable tile visualisation. In this post I’m going to explain a bit about the tile visualisation, showing how it can be used in Power View, before...
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SQL server has sometimes come under fire with the Oracle vs SQL Server debate because of the lack of some of the more advanced (and less used) functionality that is outlined in the SQL ANSI standards. An example of this is Window Functions...
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One of the new SQL Server 2012 data warehouse features is the Columnstore index. It stores data by columns instead of by rows, similar to a column-oriented DBMS like the Vertica Analytic Database and claims to increase query performance by hundreds to...
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Master Data Services Collections are probably not the first feature that come to mind when you think of the MDS product. The hierarchies and member grids tend to be the core functionality, but as this post will hopefully show, MDS Collections are useful...
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Today saw the announcement of how SQL Server 2012 will be carved up and licensed, and it's changed quite a bit. There are three key changes: 1) There's a new Business Intelligence Edition that sits between Standard and Enterprise 2) No more processor...
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This is just a quick post to announce a range of SQL Server training courses, organised (and in some cases delivered) by Chris Webb . To start off there’s a SQL Server course delivered by Christian Bolton in December, followed by an Analysis Services...
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Further to my blog post about SQL server appliances Microsoft and HP also offer the very exciting Business Decision Appliance. This contains a preconfigured environment with: Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition Microsoft SQL Server...
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As you may have already seen, Packt have released a new MDX book, namely MDX with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Analysis Services Cookbook by Tomislav Piasevoli. The book is written as cookbook, meaning that you can choose the individual ‘recipes’ that...
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If you work in large enterprises you often come across the attitude that Microsoft SQL Server can’t scale. People therefore turn to vendors such as Oracle and Teradata for solutions at very high cost. This attitude often comes from in-house...
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This is a quick blog post to announce that Adatis are running a contest in conjunction with Packt around Master Data Services. The winner will receive an Amazon Kindle pre-loaded with our Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Master Data Services book....
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Master Data Services in SQL Server Denali now includes an Excel add-in that allows MDS users to add and update data that exists within Master Data Services. For those of you that haven’t had a chance to download the latest CTP, this post gives an overview...
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As I’m sure you’ve seen, registration for SQLBits 9 – Query Across the Mersey is now open. This time around I’ll be running a deep-dive training day with Tim Kent on Master Data Services. This will be a full day of training, showing you how MDS can be...
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Introduction This is the second part of a series of blog posts intended to show a way to load data in to MDS via SSIS. In part 1 we have loaded the staging tables with new members and attributes for several entities. In this blog post we are going to...