I ran into a situation recently that had me stumped for a bit, and there didn’t seem to be any other posts about this when I searched. I was working with a cube containing a very straightforward measure. This was an integer column and used an AggregationType of SUM. No other calculations were involved. When […]

I and most of my colleagues use Virtualization extensively for testing and demonstrations, for example with beta software or CTP’s. Today I was using it for this Webinar. About two hours before the Webinar, I was surprised to discover that my Virtual PC did not appear to be working. I don’t know if anyone else […]

Recently I had the pleasure of deploying the entire Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence "stack" at a client. In the course of reviewing the successes and challenges of this engagement, I realized that in many ways this was an ideal implementation: 1) Except for a few SSRS 2000 reports, it was mostly "green field", […]