SSAS Dimension Properties : Basic Properties
If you’ve ever spent some time looking around in SSAS, you’ll notice there are a lot of properties. So what are all of these properties, and what do they do? I’ve usually found that when I’m ...
View ArticleSSAS Dimension Properties : Advanced
Yesterday I blogged about the properties of a dimension in the basic folder, and what each property means. Today I’m going to cover the advanced folder. In the advanced folder, there are 13 ...
View ArticleSSAS Dimension Properties : Misc and Source
Previously I’ve blogged about both Basic dimension properties ( here ) and Advanced dimension properties ( here ), so today I’d like to finish off this initial set by blogging about the misc and ...
View ArticleHierarchies in SSAS Multidimensional: What’s really happening up (or down) in...
A few days ago I got an interesting question. The question was “When you build an hierarchy in SSAS, what’s actually happening to it on disk?” As in, how does the file system actually place it ...
View ArticleSSAS Parent Child Dimension Properties
I’ve saved the best for last, so they say. Well, depending on how you look at it. Over the last week, I’ve blogged about all of the other sections in Analysis Services dimensions except for ...
View ArticleWhy SharePoint isn't for Everyone
1. It's a Platform, Not a Product The biggest problem most businesses will have with SharePoint is that it isn't really a product, it's a platform. To make it work for your business, you'll ...
View ArticleCreating a site collection in SharePoint 2013
SharePoint 2010 was worlds apart from SharePoint 2007, and SharePoint 2013 continues that change with an updated interface, performance improvements, etc.. SharePoint 2013 looks very metro-ish, in ...
View ArticleCalculating Factors in ETL Process
Most of us have gleefully used the GROUP BY function to perform summary operations such as SUM, AVERAGE, MAX and MIN on sets of values. A typical example of this would be the following where the ...
View ArticleBuild your apps for Office 2013 and SharePoint 2013 with the help of NAPA.
It’s really interesting and exciting to see these kinds of new technology and tools by the Microsoft. It’s my great opportunity that I had a change to attend one of the first Asian Dev-Camps related ...
View ArticleThe Whaty-What of Data Mining Algorithms in SSAS
SQL Server Analysis Services features nine different data mining algorithms that looks for specific types of patterns in trends in order to make predictions about your data. This is a ...
View ArticleInstalling HDInsight
It's been a while since I've had the opportunity to blog so when I decided to install HDInsight on a VM, I figured what better opportunity to get back in the swing of it. The Jumping Off ...
View ArticleInstalling Mahout for HDInsight on Windows Server
I am passionate when it comes to analytics, data mining and machine learning and I think most organizations do too little when it comes to this arena. That's why one of my favorite parts of the ...
View ArticleHIVE on HDInsight: First Glance
Hive Introduction Within the Hadoop ecosystem, you can use HDFS to load and store data and MapReduce to do both simple and hardcore processing. One of the missing pieces to the puzzle that ...
View ArticleBeing Productive with HDInsight
This post will be the holding place where I put misc. tools and tips for HDInsight Build Tools 1. Apache ANT ( http://ant.apache.org/manual/install.html ) Extract archive to c:\ant\ ...
View ArticleDate Range for SQL and Oracle.
Hello all, This will be my memorable blog post for this year. Since, this is my last blog post for this year acc to Nepali year.We are celebrating happy new year(01/01/2070 B.S) day after ...
View ArticlePreparing Data for Hadoop
In my next couple of blog entries, I will be focusing on PIG and then MapReduce. Before that however, I need to prepare a dataset and get it loaded in HDFS. The data that I will be working with is ...
View ArticleWhen Pigs Fly: An apache pig introduction
In previous posts, we have looked at what it takes to get started with with Hadoop on Windows using HDInsight. We also looked at Hive, which is the data warehousing framework built on top of Hadoop. ...
View ArticleFinding Empty Tables in SQL Server DataBase
Here’s a simple query to find all empty tables in your SQL Server database that uses a VIEW called dm_db_partition_stats which returns page and row-count information for every partition in the ...
View ArticleParsename to Extract Precision and Scale values From Decimal Numbers
Ref: From SQLSERVERCURRY The numeric datatype stores numbers with precision and scale. Suppose you want to extract only a precision or a scale, you can do it via many ways. One of the ways is to ...
View ArticleShakin' Bacon: Using Pig To Process Data
In my last post (see HERE ), I introduce the Apache Pig project and showed you the equivalent of the "Hello World" demo in Pig. In this post, we are going to use the GSOD (Global Summary of the ...
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