ABL: Always Be Learning
If you have been in the IT field for any length of time, I’m sure you have heard the phrase “Always Be Learning”. If you want to be successful and make the big bucks, you are going to have to … Continue reading →
Show correct totals when using SSAS role security
When using role security in SSAS, one point of confusion is when a person sees the grand total for a measure that includes the total of ALL members in the cube, even though the security has limited the members that person can … Continue reading →
Watch out, Visual Studio 2010 does not support BI
When Visual Studio 2010 was released about a year ago, I was very excited and wanted to quickly open up a SSAS project created in VS 2008 to see the new features that were available in VS 2010. So I copied … Continue reading →
New Microsoft BI Labs site
Interesting new BI site from Microsoft called “BI Labs“. This site says: “BI Labs is a collection of experimental business intelligence projects and useful applications made available from internal sources across Microsoft. These projects are prototypes and concepts, and there are … Continue reading →
DBA’s, want to earn the big bucks? Learn BI
While there are many DBA’s who do business intelligence, or BI, I believe there are even more who do not. After all, there is enough tasks for DBA’s to keep them plenty busy without dealing with BI. We have repurposed … Continue reading →
SSAS error when processing the cube
Every couple of weeks I see this SSAS error when processing one of my cubes: Internal error: Invalid enumeration value. Please call customer support! is not a valid value for this element. An error occurred while parsing the ‘StorageMode’ element at … Continue reading →
Dirty looking SQL, MDX, or DAX? Clean it up
A quick tip for you: Ever get some SQL or MDX sent to you in an email, or copied from a website, or pulled from SQL Profiler, that is difficult to understand because it’s not formatted? Well, there are a couple … Continue reading →
A quicker way than using count(*)
A quick little tip I found a couple of years ago. Ever use the count(*) syntax and it takes forever to count all the rows in a table? I had this problem when I would sometimes run counts on a … Continue reading →
The best IT job boards
There are three job boards that I use: Dice, Monster, and LinkedIn. I prefer Dice by far, since it has a ton of IT jobs on it, and it is focused solely on IT. Monster is OK, but it does … Continue reading →
SSIS package runs fine until put in a job
I see this issue pop up every now and then: A developer creates an SSIS package in BIDS and gets it to run fine. Then the developer connects to Integration Services and uploads the package to the server, and then … Continue reading →
What to blog about?
As I mentioned in my first post, I thought it would be real difficult to think of things to blog about. Turns out to be real easy. It’s just a matter of always having a “blogging mindset”. In other words, … Continue reading →
Antivirus solutions that are free
So my sister called me the other day to tell me she has a message on her laptop that said she has a virus. Those of us working in the IT industry know we are the one’s all our friends … Continue reading →
What name should I call myself?
In creating this blog, I was thinking about using some catchy name for myself. Something with “DBA” in it. However, doing a quick Google search revealed there are so many already: Cranky DBA, Rambling DBA, Goal Keeping DBA, Mean Old … Continue reading →
Welcome To Machine
Hello World. Stardate 1513.1. After reading that, if you know what I am referring to, you are a tech-head and may continue to read this blog 🙂 So, the reasons that I am blogging: 1) I really enjoy helping others. … Continue reading →