Chris Webb is an independent consultant specialising in Analysis Services, MDX, PowerPivot and DAX. He is a co-author of "Expert Cube Development with SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services", and "MDX Solutions with Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services 2005 and Hyperion Essbase", and blogs at
http://cwebbbi.wordpress.com/
This session will show you how to build aggregations in Analysis Services 2008 that are useful for the queries you're actually running
Learn how the Analysis Services cache works, and how you can pre-load it with data to ensure optimal query performance.
Learn to tune Analysis Services 2008 query performance
This session will introduce the basic concepts of the new multidimensional calculation language, DAX, and show how to implement several common calculations in it
Learn about the most frequently made Analysis Services design mistakes, the problems they cause, and how to fix them or not make them in the first place
This session will introduce the concept of scoped assignments in MDX and show how they can be used to solve various calculation problems.
This session explains what the BI Semantic Model in SQL Server Denali is, how it is related to Analysis Services, and provides a brief introduction to the new Tabular model.
This session will cover advanced security topics in the Analysis Services Multidimensional model.
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When I was at SQL Saturday in Dublin a few weeks ago I sat in on a sponsor session given by red-gate and heard that they were working on their first tool for Analysis Services: SSAS Compare. Today it appeared on their labs site and you can download it to check it out yourself: ...
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Over the years I’ve written quite a few posts about Google’s BI capabilities. Google never seems to get mentioned much as a BI tools vendor but to me it’s clear that it’s doing a lot in this area and is consciously building up its capabilities; you only need to look at things like Fusion Tables ...
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Greg Galloway (who really should blog more often!) recently came across an otherwise undocumented query performance optimisation in SSAS 2012: using named sets inside aggregate functions in MDX no longer prevents the use of block computation/bulk mode. This was something that was explicitly called ...
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Today I’m teaching the SSAS 2012 Tabular workshop with Alberto Ferrari in Belgium, and an interesting question came up during my session on DAX queries to do with subtotals that I couldn’t answer immediately. However, I found a solution fairly quickly afterwards and so I thought it was worth ...
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For those of you who haven’t seen Marco’s post from a few days ago, registration is now open for the SSAS Maestros course that he and I will be teaching this July in Milan. A few things to point out: We’ve listened to feedback, trimmed some of the costs and content, and reduced the price [...]
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