December 2006 Entries
Amazon has kindly let me know that, based on some of my previous purchases (notice the classic use of data mining here?), I might be interested in Edward Melomed's soon to be released book Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services. Edward is a program manager on the development team at Microsoft and he and a few of the other co-authors joined Microsoft as part of Microsoft's aquisition of OLAP Services from Panorama back in the SQL Server 7.0 timeframe, so hopefully this book should have a few insights ......
A few of us that worked on the Analysis Services Stored Procedure project http://www.codeplex.com/ASS... were having a discussion on email the other day and the issue of trying to override some of the built-in functions with a different implementation came up. (specifically some of the Excel functions) My first attempt at this was to register an assembly at the server level with a name of "Excel", thinking that when you called "Excel.Round(...)" it might call my assembly instead of the ......
Nick Barclay announced the other day that he and Adrian Downes have been writing a book! The Rational Guide to Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager 2005 is due out in the mid January 2007 timeframe. It sounds like it should be a good read, and will even include a chapter on some of the upcoming improvements to scorecarding in PerformancePoint Server (which BSM will become a part of in mid to late 2007). Congratulations Nick, from all accounts writing a technical book of this nature is no easy ......