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Found this interesting presentation online “SSAS Implementation Best Practices“. Presenter was: Nicholas Dritsas, SQL Server Product Group Customer Adivsory Team. It is PDF document that contains power point sildes.

My notes from 2007 Microsoft Business Intelligence Conference:

• SP2 has a lot of performance improvements for processing and querying. Upgrade ASAP.
• Attribute relationship is important. I have heard that at least 10 times in different sessions.

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Just came back from Microsoft BI conference. I would say it was better than I expected and most likely I’ll come back next year. My experience: 

• There were not enough technical sessions. That is the biggest complaint from my side to conference organisers.
• I wish they handed out session slide print-outs before each session.
• There were very good chalk talk and break out sessions that made it all worth while. But I do not believe they were recorded on DVD. I hope they will do this next year.
• I met a lot very interesting people. Many of them were from my blog roll list.
• I have heard many interesting stories on how others are implementing Analysis Services projects and their solutions to different problems.
• Microsoft employees were available to answer questions in partner pavilion. I liked that very much. I had a few consultations with them that were very very helpful for me.

There is new (I believe) paper published by Microsoft today: 2007 Microsoft Office System Business Intelligence Integration with SQL Server 2005 here:

http://www.microsoft.com/sql/techinfo/whitepapers/sqlplusofficebi.mspx

Published date is today, but internally document says Jan 31th, 2007. Anyway, I have not seen this paper before.

Welcome new Analysis Services blogger – Ramunas Balukonis.

http://www.ssas-info.com/RamunasBalukonisBlog/