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Almost Forgot
I was up this morning, starting to work on my desktop. I rebuilt it yesterday, or started, with Windows 7 RTM (from Windows 7 RC) and wanted to get it done. I had a couple items for work to finish … Continue reading
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Don’t Make Me Work, VIA Rail
I got an email the other day from Canada’s VIA Rail, advertising "Discover Canada by Train" and the chance to save up to 70%. When my son was younger he loved trains, and one of the videos he had was … Continue reading
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Warming up Analysis Services with Preallocate
With Windows Server 2003 many people found that Analysis Services (SSAS) was slow to get going sometimes. So a preallocate setting was introduced that allows you to specify the initial memory setting that SSAS will get when it starts. This … Continue reading
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A True Sense of Community
We have a thread in our forums that many of the participants refer to as "The THREAD." It’s a long running thread that started with a simple question: Are the posted questions getting worse?" What was initially a rant about … Continue reading
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