Last November, at the PASS Summit in Seattle, I presented a session on building a monitoring solution for Analysis Services, Integration Services and Reporting Services which seemed to go down pretty well. I was lucky in that the SQLCat team presented a very similar session, although just covering Analysis Services, the next day - so at least I got to present first! Anyway, I see that they've just got round to publishing their material on this subject here:
http://www.sqlbits.com/information/PublicSessions.aspx
and choose the sessions you'd like to see.
Boyan Penev recently blogged about the virtues of setting default parameters and he's right: it's a good idea to set parameter defaults. However I was with a customer yesterday who were waiting for a really long time to even open the Query Parameters dialog in the SSRS query designer. I was a bit curious as to why this was, so I ran a Profiler trace. What I found was then when I opened t...Full Article.
If you build a dimension directly off a fact table (a fact dimension), when you add it to your cube and set the relationship between that dimension and the fact table you have a choice about the type of relationship you can use: you can use either a Fact relationship type or a Regular relationship type. I've always used Fact relationships but never known whether there was anything special about them - there was in some of the early Yukon betas but the functionality got dropped before RTM.