Hello! I can’t believe it has been almost a year that I haven’t blogged. I’ve been maxed out on projects and found it difficult to dedicate the time.
My current project, which I have been at for over 6 months, is a data warehouse implementation. I’ve enjoyed getting into the meat of AS 2005 and cementing my data warehouse design knowledge – with the help of Kristian Wedberg, Dan Perrin and Howard Pull. We used Panorama for the front end.
Proclarity came in to demo to us at one of our community days. By co-incidence, it was 2 days before the big announcement. I must say I was impressed with their product (before the acquisition). I’d only ever really used Panorama in the past or created my own AS client, so it was an education. Proclarity seemed quite bug free and with a consistent UI. They also assured me that the pasting of direct MDX will work! (something I’ve never managed to get working properly with good old Panorama)
I’ll be doing my SQL Server Development Tips and Tricks presentation at Developer Developer Developer Day in Microsoft Reading early June. Should be fun and I’m looking forward to getting back in the swing of it.
I spent a couple of days reading MDX Solutions 2nd Edition this week. This is a great book – even better than the first edition! Congrats to Chris Webb for this.