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Although I didn't mention it, the inspiration for my last post was the excellent MDX Solutions 2nd Edition . Whilst flicking through the book a while back, I though it would be interesting to see how DAX and PowerPivot could handle the so called 'Common...
One of the often required calculations for users in reports is to be able to calculate a point-in-time closing balance, which is especially relevant when dealing with stock levels or financial data. In the Analysis Services world, at least in the Enterprise...
Interesting to see yesterday that XLCubed have released version 5 of their popular OLAP reporting tool. As I've mentioned before , I've always found XLCubed to be very powerful and easy to use, and therefore, in my opinion, it's definitely...
As Chris Webb has already blogged, the Analysis Services 2008 Performance Guide has now been released. Like the 2005 version, the 2008 guide contains a wealth of information and is a must read if you are trying to tune either query or processing performance...
One of the great features of PEL is that you can choose either a SQL or MDX implementation for your rules, depending on what you want to achieve. Whilst the MDX rules are much less restrictive than the SQL rules, they can sometimes run slower, depending...
Microsoft have just released Cumulative Update 8 for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2. Amongst the changes are a few fixes for small problems in Analysis Services, such as: Infinite recursion occurs in the CalculationPassValue function in SQL Server 2005...
XLCubed Version 4 was recently released, adding support for increased data visualisation via MicroCharts, as well as enhanced web publishing. I've been using XLCubed since version 1 and have always found it both powerful and easy to use. All the standard...
Analysis Services 2005 comes with the useful Add Business Intelligence wizard, which will assist you with numerous calculations, including 12 Months to Date. However, I tend to write such calculations myself, especially having found out that the 12 Months...