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Had no time to update my blog for few weeks, was really busy with work: - New BI project: This is for one of the leading banks in Sri Lanka...

This clearly shows the reality, this shows who wants to destroy the great country, Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka won again, defeating the internation...

Are you experiencing this? You might. There are different set of connection related errors with PerformancePoint 2007. If you get errors lik...

While installing the SP2 of PerformancePoint 2007, you may get an error like; Failed package requirement analysis, please refer to the log ...

If you are using PerformancePoint 2007 and you have not installed the SP2, then this is the time for installing it. As you know, it did not ...

After 30 years, His Excellency Mahinda Rajapakse, President of Sri Lanka has freed the country from LTTE terror, keeping his word. How for...

This is the first workshop organized by IronOne Technologies. It was started on last Thursday and will continue till this Tuesday. I feel bi...

As you all know, measures are identified at the analysis stage of Data Warehouse/BI project. Are all identified measures KPIs? This question...

Question arose while we were discussing BI. I asked myself, whats the hell is "Stovepipe" data mart, I was aware of the word but p...

This is my first video, had been planning for months, and somehow was able to do one. I do not know whether the quality of this lesson is ok...

We usually set the REPEATABLE READ Transaction Isolation Level in order to overcome Inconsistent analysis (nonrepeatable read) and Lost Upda...

It hit me again. This does not allow you to deploy any reports or open report manager via the browser. This is because of the invalid conf...

This error comes when we try to configure Reporting Services 2008 with Reporting Services Configuration Manager . The reason for this is fu...

Doing my presentation. Giving a prize to a winner. All prize grabbers. SQL Server crew

I am proud to announce that the SQL Server 2008 Community Launch, Kandy took place in grand scale. This was organized with some great diffic...

Can we use a different word instead of GO ? Yes, it is possible because GO is not a T-SQL statement; it is a command that is recognized as ...

We, SQL Server MVPs are organizing Community Launch of SQL Server 2008, next week in Kandy and 4th week of January in Colombo with the suppo...

Microsoft MVP award team has decided keep my MVP title for another year. Thanks Microsoft award team, Microsoft Sri Lanka, Lead Lilian Quek ...

This was another issue we came across. See the below images, They show the same index property of AdventureWorks database in 2005 instance. ...

Hi everybody, wish you all very happy, lovely, peaceful new year!

This ate few minutes from my allocated time :). I was able to successfully deploy the Analysis Services 2008 project to another server that ...

This question of raised by one of my students in my new batch, excellent question. We all know that when we use LIMITED mode, it scans only ...

I had written code filtering some records out and had assumed that it would produce the result I want. After few minutes I realized that how...

I was thinking of doing 70-448 (MS SQL Server 2008 Business Intelligence Development and Maintenance) exam and thought to take a practice ex...

Most of the time, the decision of the usage of data types, char or varchar is depending on, whether the values are fixed-length or variable-...