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GBN 2008 Conference Evaluations
I have been asked by a few different folks about evaluations for the conference, both from an attendee perspective and for speakers as well. For previous conferences conference attendees filled out...
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Designer XI 3 New Feature: Extended Prompt Syntax
The @Prompt() function has been around for a very long time. There have been subtle changes made to it over the years to support some of the new Web Intelligence extended options but they were not...
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Designer XI 3 New Feature: Class Restrictions
Designer has provided the option to create “stub joins” in a universe for quite a few years. A stub join is a permanent where clause on a table that appears as a small stub rather than a full join...
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Designer XI 3 New Feature: Database Delegated Measures
A Brief Overview of Measure Objects A universe has three basic types of result objects: dimensions, details, and measures. Measure objects are analytical values like dollars or quantities. Measure...
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Designer Essentials Webcast Scheduled November 18
The presentation that I did for the 2008 GBN conference earlier this year has been scheduled for a webcast that will be hosted on the GBN web site. Registration is required, but it’s fairly simple. If...
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Webinar is Done, Whew!
Earlier today I delivered my GBN Conference presentation to an audience over the web. It was… interesting. I have done web presentations before but never to an audience of this size. I didn’t have time...
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Context Versus Alias Overview
In an attempt to complete the blog posts related to my GBN Conference presentation from 2008 before the upcoming conference in 2009 kicks off I bring you Context Versus Alias: The Smackdown Cage Match....
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Time-Sliced Measures Part I: Defining the Problem
During the 2008 GBN Conference in Dallas I delivered a presentation related to universe design. The last third of the presentation demonstrated a solution for time-sliced measures that I have used on a...
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Time-Sliced Measures Part II: Time Slice Calendar Table
In the first post in this series I defined what time-sliced measures are and why they can be useful in a universe. I also shared the design requirements for a particular project I was on. The...
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Time Sliced Measures Part III: Making Measures
In the first post in this series I defined what time-sliced measures are and why they can be useful in a universe. In the second post I described a special calendar table that was designed and built to...
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