Great editorial, as usual, Steve, and and a great resource, as well (the report).

A small typo, though, I think, in your first paragraph:

"The downsides were that salaries and bonuses had...

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Great - glad it was of some use.

Happy Holidays!

- SD

I do think there is a lot of value in networking as well, so this might not be the best approach for everyone, but it certainly is something you ought...

I'd definitely like to continue in some capacity. Hopefully there is executive sponsorship for...

KWymore (11/15/2012)

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Nice post on SSAS security. That is a part of SSAS (and most products for that matter) that is not reviewed enough in my opinion.

I have used many...

KWymore (11/12/2012)

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It really started to come together for me when I used my own data too. The data in AW and Contoso is a little too perfect. That data is...

KWymore (11/12/2012)

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Another good Wrox book that isn't quite as comprehensive or overwhelming as the one that you are using is the "Knight's 24 Hour Business Intelligence Trainer" book by Brian...

MDX definitely requires a different (i.e. non TSQL) way of thinking.

Pete Myers mentioned in his pre-conference BI seminar that people coming from a TSQL background actually had a tougher time...

Likewise - thanks for your...

Thanks for the support, Pete, I'm glad you're enjoying the blog. I'm indeed lucky to be able to get away for the week and immerse myself in the technology, but...

Thanks for the encouragement, KWymore.

It sounds like I'm mimicking your approach as well - taking an existing relational OLTP model and building from that. I've used view in my relational...

Thank you, Tim, that's great info!

I like the idea of an annotated screenshot as well.

Thanks for the feedback!

-Simon

Thanks for the feedback, Leonard and Daniel.

I will probably use a combination of tooltips for the quick and easy metadata definitions, and a more comprehensive document/data model for the reports...

Tilting at windmills - I love it.

And here I thought I was the only DBA who has a Liberal Arts degree.

Great start to my day...

-Simon