The more you play with big data technologies, the more you end up circling back to the basic question “How does my end user get access/value?”. Currently we’re using Amazon Redshift as a down and dirty query window on top Read More
Setup Mondrian on Mac OSX
The Mondrian documentation is terrible, and Java isn’t something you get to easily “dabble” in. My goal was to setup Mondrian on my Mac OSX machine, starting with Mondrian 3.5. While trying to set up the initial FoodMart sample dataset Read More
Analysis Services Add role members programmatically in C#
First, I don’t know why; but it seems like as soon as you add in the word OLAP or Analysis Services to your problem things just stop working as you would normally expect. Problem: I’m using NAnt as a deployment Read More
OLAP: Make XML(A) work for you
The bread and butter at work is all the magic that happens in OLAP, Microsoft Analysis Services in particular. Alot of people assume OLAP is going the way of the Buffalo, they probably also like buzzwords such as “nosql”, “bigdata”. Read More