If you’ve been following my recent series on MDX, which began with Location, Location, Location, you have learned some important concepts, but this series was merely an introduction and there is so much more to learn. To help you continue building your skills, here are a variety of resources that I recommend that you peruse. [...]

After an intermission for the holidays, I’m resuming my series of posts that provide an introduction to MDX. This series began with Location, Location, Location, and continued through A Gentle Introduction to Sets. At this point, you should have a good idea of the basic structure of a query using objects in an Analysis Services [...]

It’s already half a week after PASS Summit 2011 and my head is still reeling! Just when I think PASS Summit can’t possibly get any better, it does. When Erika and I arrived at the Washington State Convention Center on Sunday afternoon to register, I felt like I had just been there for Summit 2010. [...]

I’ve been tagged by Erika to participate in SQL Rockstar’s creation, Meme Monday, so here goes: SSIS Rules – Green is good. Red is bad. Yellow means wait. Is there anyone left to tag? Rob Farley (blog | twitter) is always amusing. I’d love to see what he can do with 11 words!

Last week I presented a Webcast, sponsored by Idera, that received some favorable feedback, plus some requests for my sample files. To recap, my focus was on the process of building the data mart, rather than trying to explain (in 45 minutes!) all the things that you can do with Integration Services. In some cases, [...]