Chris Webb is an independent consultant specialising in Analysis Services, MDX, PowerPivot and DAX. He is a co-author of "SQL Server Analysis Services 2012: The BISM Tabular Model",
"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.
This session looks at the most significant new functionality to be added to SSAS Multidimensional in recent years: support for the DAX language and Power View.
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I’ve been working on a very complex SSAS Tabular implementation recently, and as a result I’ve learned a few new DAX tricks. The one that I’m going to blog about today takes me back to my old favourite, the events-in-progress problem. I’ve blogged about it a lot of times, looking at solutions for ...
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Just a quick post to say that the BI Survey 13 is now open and would like your feedback about the BI tools you’re using. Here’s the link: https://digiumenterprise.com/answer?link=1358-CTDDUWQN It’s worth doing because you’ll get a summary of the results and will get entered in a draw for some ...
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By now you may have already heard the news that, as part of SQL Server 2012 SP1 CU4, new functionality has been released that means that Power View now works with Analysis Services Multidimensional (ie cubes, as opposed to the Tabular Model, which always worked with Power View). I won’t bother to ...
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At last, the Excel 2013 app I’ve really been waiting for! Those data visualization apps from last week have generated a lot of interest, but this is even cooler for a data geek like me. A few months ago I came across FlatMerge, a startup that allows you to upload data and then make it […]
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I don’t usually like to blog about topics that I think other people have blogged about already, but despite the fact that Mosha blogged about this several years ago (in fact more than eight years ago, blimey) this particular problem comes up so often with my customers and on the MSDN Forum that I ...
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