Win Free Ecopy of new book on SSAS
Readers would be pleased to know that I have teamed up with Packt Publishing to organize a Giveaway of the Expert Cube Development with SSAS Multidimensional Models And two lucky winners stand a chance to win ecopy of their new book. Keep reading to find out how you can be one of the Lucky Winners. Overview: …
Online Review of Expert Cube Development
I thought I would quickly post that I have been asked to complete an online review of Expert Cube Development which is a new book released by Packt and written by Chris Webb, Alberto Ferrari and Marco Russo. I have to say that so far I am really enjoying the book and find it really interesting and enjoy that it…
SSIS – Running single SSIS packages in Parallel to get faster performance for multiple data loads
What we are going to show you below, is that by using ONE SSIS package, we can re-use this one SSIS package multiple times to get data from multiple sources, possibly from different databases hosted in different locations around the world. So in effect we are loading our data from one SSIS package in parallel. NOTE: By completing the…
SSIS – Getting Partition Names for the past 12 months
I had a situation where I was using a conditional split, so that when data was coming in from my source tables it would dynamically go into the correct partitioned table. Below is the script that I used, as well as for reference the conditional split — ================================================================================================================== — What we are doing here is to create a…
SharePoint 2013 – Creating a data source to an SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) OLAP Cube
Below are the details when using SharePoint 2013 when you want to collect to an SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) OLAP cube, instead of only being able to use the SSAS Tabular. Example: · In our example we are going to connect to our Adventure Works DW 2012 SSAS 1. Go into your SharePoint 2013 website and then…
SSAS – Configuring the Slice Partition in your cube.
After recently going through an online video, I realized that I had not set the Slice option on the partition on a larger cube that I had. And by putting in the slice details this would then enable me to get faster queries when people were accessing the data. Below are the steps that I did in order to…
Setting up a Proxy Account to run SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) 2012 packages
Below are the steps that we had to do in order for us to create and setup a Proxy Account to run our SSIS Project. As well as allowing the domain user to have access to the job so that they could create and edit the job which ran the SSIS Project. NOTE: When setting up all the SQL Settings…
DAX – Comparing a specific Product Average against the average of ALL products
I had a situation when one of my fellow workers wanted to create a report where they wanted to compare one product’s sales and how it was doing when compared to the average of ALL the product sales. In our example below we want to extract from the AdventureWorksDW2012 Analysis Services Database You can get a copy of…
Power View – Using MDX, SSAS Tabular and Power View to display potential issues based on past trends in data
What I am going to explain below is using the above MDX, SSAS Tabular and Power View to display potential issues based on past trends within our data. For our example we are going to using the example of SCOM data. Within our example we are looking for systems where the available memory has dropped more than 50% of…
SCOM (Systems Center Operations Manager) Cube and Data warehouse
What I have done is I have found that it is very handy having all our SCOM data in a data warehouse and then having it in a SSAS (SQL Server Analysis Services). Within the zip file which can be located here below it has all the details for the following: · SCOM Data Warehouse and OLAP Documentation.docx o This…