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Boot to VHD – Demo Environments and more
A few people have asked me about this recently, so I thought I’d share my approach. Creating demo environments, particularly for the MS BI Stack, can be time consuming and a challenge, particularly when you need to take the demo with you and can’t rely...
PerformancePoint Planning: Deleting a Custom Member Property - A Solution
I had a bit of a rant yesterday about the fact I have had to compromise naming member properties when I've inadvertently created them with the wrong data type.  As I mentioned, I found a Dimension attribute collection method in the Planning client...
PerformancePoint Planning: Deleting a Custom Member Property..
Update:  I've posted a solution to Deleting a Custom Member Property here I've done this countless times; I've created my perfectly named Custom Member Property when it suddenly dawns on me that I've forgotten to give it the right...
PerformancePoint Server 2007 PPSCMD GUI
I've built a really simple GUI for a couple of commands of the PPSCMD utility.  I always take far too long to work out the syntax and navigate to the appropriate directory (Yes, I ought to update the PATH environment variable) that I felt I could...
SQL Server Utilities
Andrew has posted a great list of community developed utilities for SQL Server .  There is a few on there that have been on my 'must-do-one-day' list for far too long !
Essential Adatis Blogs
I've been speaking to a couple of people recently that, although subscribe to my blog, are not aware of our PPS Planning Sharepoint Web Part that Tim has blogged about here and here . This post is more of an awareness that we have other bloggers onboard...
MDX Stored Procedures (Part 1)
UPDATE: You can find part 2 here , along with a link to download a C# quick start. A long time ago I realised that inevitably, however well specified the requirements or however tight the deadlines are, clients always throw a curve ball. To that avail...
Vista Taskbar preview in Windows XP
This is a cool little utility that gives you a preview image of each task on the task bar. A richer version will be available in Vista - but why wait? http://www.visualtasktips.com/
Posted: May 24 2006, 01:40 PM by sachatomey
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