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Day 1: 5:49pm – Progress, and then 28 Errors and 7 Warnings
Spent the morning and afternoon reading up on the basic elements of a multidimensional model, including the data warehouse, facts, measures, dimensions, attributes, hierarchies, cubes, etc. The lingua...
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Day 1: 1:58am – Eureka
I went back to the drawing board with my dimensions, as they were the ones causing me all the trouble. To be more specific, I took out the elephant gun and started them from scratch. Because I’m...
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Day 2: 9:35am
Dawn of Day 2 – 6 days of dev to go. I’m pleased with my progress thus far: in something like 36 hours I’ve used SQL Server Data Tools to build a very rudimentary Mutlidimensional OLAP Cube, with one...
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Day 2: 11:47pm: Hoisted by my own Petard!
“Chump change”, I said. “Stuff the Goose”, I said. Well, I’m eating those words now. It would seem that trying to cram 150 million rows into the fact table in my pseudo-data warehouse did not agree...
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Day 3: 11:29pm: BI Immersion
Great day today. Brian and Devin Knight’s full-day precon session was filled with lots of great BI info and demos. They’re both entertaining, so it’s not difficult to stay engaged for the whole day,...
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Day 4: 9:55pm: The Halfway Point
I spent most of the day today in Pete Myers’ full-day precon session, “Zero to BI Semantic Model with SQL Server 2012″. Pete gave a great presentation, and like yesterday, I came away with some key...
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Day 5: 11:30pm: The 34 Were Heard!
PASS Summit 2012 Day 1 Day 5 of my OLAP sprint – which I can now more accurately term a MOLAP sprint (or maybe MOLAP meander) – began with the official opening of PASS Summit 2012. DBAs, BI Developers,...
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Day 6: 11:20pm: Dimension Security for the Common Man
PASS Summit 2012 Day 2 Unfortunately, I accidentally slept through this morning’s Keynote address. I was sorry to have missed it, but I think I needed the bit of extra sleep. I’ve been putting in a lot...
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Day 7: 9:00pm: Parting Shots (of Glenlivet 12 Y/O)
PASS Summit 2012 Day 3 Up at the crack of dawn for Lynn Langit’s great session on Amazon’s cloud offerings, called AWS. They’ve got several managed service offerings of interest for DBAs, including:...
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Day 327: From Prototype to Production
In November of 2012, I embarked on a Quixotic attempt at building a BI prototype in 7 days. I dubbed the experiment ‘OLAP Sprint’. The plan was to leverage everything great about the PASS Summit...
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