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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 on powerful, internal servers and good client internet...

Posted to Sacha Tomey's blog (Weblog) by sachatomey on 09-26-2012
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 assemblies that hinted that it might allow me...

Posted to Sacha Tomey's blog (Weblog) by sachatomey on 11-26-2008
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 data type. No problem, right? Wrong! ...

Posted to Sacha Tomey's blog (Weblog) by sachatomey on 11-25-2008
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 justify building a simple front end to help speed...

Posted to Sacha Tomey's blog (Weblog) by sachatomey on 08-27-2008
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 !

Posted to Sacha Tomey's blog (Weblog) by sachatomey on 06-10-2008
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 and much of the content is of the 'essential'...

Posted to Sacha Tomey's blog (Weblog) by sachatomey on 03-11-2008
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, like many, I adopt an agile approach to project...

Posted to Sacha Tomey's blog (Weblog) by sachatomey on 08-17-2007
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 to Sacha Tomey's blog (Weblog) by sachatomey on 05-24-2006

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