Performance tips for SSAS
Over the past few years I have developed a list of ways to improve performance in SSAS and in two...
2011-10-17
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James Serra's Blog
Formula engine and storage engine in SSAS
In SSAS, to improve query performance, it’s important to understand what happens inside analysis services when a query is run. ...
2011-10-14
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SQL Server 2012 and other PASS annoucements
Some announcements and notes from SQL PASS Summit 2011, going on this week:
It was announced that the official name of the...
2011-10-13
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SQL Server 2012 and other PASS announcements
Some announcements and notes from SQL PASS Summit 2011, going on this week:
It was announced that the official name of the...
2011-10-13
981 reads
Error configuration in SSAS
In SSAS, there is an Error Configuration object that is central to the management of data integrity errors.
The following picture...
2011-10-12
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Sometimes temp tables can be your best friend
Here is a quick example of when using temporary tables will give you a big performance gain. I recently was...
2011-10-10
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Denormalizing dimension tables
When building a SSAS cube, you typically have a star schema containing dimension tables and fact tables. For dimension tables,...
2011-10-07
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Microsoft’s Data Warehouse offerings
If you are the decision maker in your company and you are tasked with purchasing one or more servers to...
2011-10-05
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Want to browse the web faster?
In our day-to-day activities, browsing the web is one of the most important aspects of our job. Whether researching for...
2011-10-03
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Microsoft SQL Server Reference Architecture and Appliances
Microsoft has made available SQL Server appliances and reference architectures that allow customers to deploy data warehouse (DW), business intelligence (BI) and...
2011-09-30
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Blogs
Monday Monitor Tips: AI Query Analysis
By Steve Jones
AI is everywhere. It’s in the news, it’s being added to every product, management...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 8: RAG – Retrieval Augmented Generation
By Vinay Thakur
RAG — Retrieval Augmented Generation. we have covered so far — embeddings, vectors, vector...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 7: Vector and Vector Databases
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 6 we learned Embeddings, Semantic Search and Checks, on Day 7...
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Restoring On Top I
I am doing development work on a database and want to keep a backup so I can reset my database. I make some changes and want to restore over top of my changes. When I run this code, what happens?
USE Master BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO USE DNRTest GO CREATE TABLE MyTest(myid INT) GO USE master RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACESee possible answers