So, I got to revisit Prague after 25 years. Safe to say I remembered the Bridge and the Castle, nothing much else, which is kind of weird as Prague is an incredibly beautiful city (but also totally crowded around Christmas apparently). My wife and I stayed at a hotel, right at the Old Town Square, and […]
How to fire up Azure Analysis Services
This is my twelfth (12th) post in a series of entry-level posts, as suggested by Tim Ford (b|l|t) in this challenge. I have not set any scope for the topics of my, at least, twelve (12) posts in this blog category of mine, but I can assure, it’ll be focused on SQL Server stuff. This time it’s going to be about […]
Which Database Servers are hit from my Analysis Services Instance(s)
This is my eleventh (11.) post in a series of entry-level posts, as suggested by Tim Ford (b|l|t) in this challenge. I have not set any scope for the topics of my, at least, twelve (12) posts in this blog category of mine, but I can assure, it’ll be focused on SQL Server stuff. This time it’s going to be about […]
Backing up your VM’s in Azure on a Schedule
This is my tenth post in a series of entry-level posts, as suggested by Tim Ford (b|l|t) in this challenge. I have not set any scope for the topics of my, at least, twelve (12) posts in this blog category of mine, but I can assure, it’ll be focused on SQL Server stuff. This time it’s going to be about […]
Testing your SSAS partitioning strategy w/ PowerShell
During a presentation of mine, there was a discussion going on, about what partitioning strategy to use when partitioning cubes. Most frequently it seems people are partitioning by some form of period, e.g. by Years, Months or Weeks. Rationally it may seem like a good idea, at the time. But wouldn’t it be a more fact based approach […]