Category Archives: Software
Devils and Angels of BI Architecture
Devil: You don’t need to set up a separate star schema databaseAngel: Yes you do. We don’t want to interfere with the operational systemsDevil: It’s sooo much workAngel: We want to create a simplified schema to benefit our end usersDevil: … Continue reading
The “Million Dollar” BI Architecture Diagram
Anyone who has worked with me or taken training from me has seen some variant of this diagram. It’s not an original concept, although this version has been refined to include my personal experience with many Business Intelligence implementations, as … Continue reading
Dec 8th, 2009 ITA BI Roundtable Presentation
On Dec 8th, I was fortunate to present an overview of SQL Server 2008 Integration Services to the Illinois Technology Association’s Business Intelligence Roundtable. The actively-involved participants had many questions. Here are links to all of the prerequisite, supplemental, and … Continue reading
Fixing "Unexpected error occurred. Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt."
( If you don’t do hard-core Analysis Services, Reporting Services, or Integration Services development work with Microsoft Business Intelligence Development Studio, you can safely ignore this blog. ) On my workstation there was an incompatibility between Visual Studio and the … Continue reading
Add-ons no MS Business Intelligence Developer should be without
The main two applications that are used for Microsoft-centric development are Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS) and SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS). There are a few add-on utilities that increase the power and usefulness of the out of the box applications. … Continue reading
Quick SQL Server tip : Find references to table or column names
Many times I have to look within a database and find all the programmable objects that refer to a particular column or table name (any string really). There’s probably a slicker, more “politically correct” way to do this, but this … Continue reading
Do as I say, not as I do
Perhaps that should be – Do as I say, not as Adventure Works and Project Real do SSAS modeling question: What’s the best approach to handling header/detail records? Approach #1) Use Measure Groups Approach #2) Consolidate via either ETL or … Continue reading