Bryan Brandow (photo, right), a Data Engineering Manager for a large social media company, is one of my favorite bloggers out their in regards to thought leadership and digging deep into the technical aspects of Tableau and MicroStrategy. Bryan just blogged about triggering cubes and extracts on his blog. Here is a brief synopsis. One of […]
A Star Schema is a design that contains only one lookup table for each hierarchy in the data model instead of having separate lookup tables for each attribute. With only a single lookup table for each hierarchy, the IDs and descriptions of all attributes in the hierarchy are stored in the same table. This type […]
Source: Welcome to the new MicroStrategy community! , MicroStrategy Community, September 8, 2014, http://community.microstrategy.com/t5/Community-News/Welcome-to-the-new-MicroStrategy-community/bc-p/198140#M84. We’re very happy that you are here. We read and analyzed feedback from many events and surveys concerning our current Discussion Forums and Knowledge Base. Today, we are proud to present to you the new MicroStrategy community. We’re very excited to have […]
Question Which of the following issues can result from many-to-many relationships? A. Exclusion of some attribute elements when drilling B. Multiple join paths to fact tables C. Missing values on reports including all attributes from the hierarchy D. Multiple counting when aggregating data from base fact tables E. Lost analytical capability Answer Both D. Multiple counting […]
MicroStrategy Analytics Platform received top scores for the features technology professionals need to enable business user business intelligence (BI) self-service, as well as for the effectiveness of its advanced data visualization (ADV) functionality in the recently published Forrester Wave: Agile Business Intelligence Report for Q2, 2014. According to the report, “Forrester also scored MicroStrategy highly […]
Converges on Four Products; Offers Free Upgrades to Premium Capabilities for Existing Clients BARCELONA, Spain, July 8, 2014 – MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of enterprise software platforms, today announced a new packaging structure aimed at delivering the best end-to-end customer and partner experience, making it easier than ever to acquire, deploy, […]
