Applied dimensionality

Just a quick side note — I usually use simple recovery mode in Ms SQL installations because: application databases become inconsistent during administration tasks so having a backup of database in a middle of GTP crash doesn’t give you anything, you’ll have to roll back to GTP start time. So backing up before and after [...]

Okay, it has been almost half-a-year (oh, dears) since the last decent post on this blog. Russian one has suffered as well, I must note. Reasons vary, but mostly it’s that I’ve been, you know, busy-busy. As I now start to reflect on it, it’s always a point of view thing and a question of [...]

Just a quick tip: read this cognoise thread thoroughly — really in-depth discussion.

Go check the download page. One wonders, what’s that 64-bit BI server is all about — they’ve really pushed the report server further, or that’s just compatability release.

Why am I writing this? Well, sometime it helped and we now have allocation tables in administration links. Although I’m sure my post didn’t have any impact, some deem hope remains I’m going to repost this into Communities and into Insight. And, maybe, we can create some noise by voting for these enchancements in Insight [...]

With so-long waited new Contributor client, with expand\collapse and nest dimensions features. And a lot, lot more. ActiveX free ) Actually, as long as I’m with cognos ep (since adaytum 2.4), contributor was always the same good-old-rigid tool, so it’s a revolution indeed. Well, with a huge lot of bugs inside, it’s time, gentlemen, to [...]

I already wrote some notes on choosing dimension for publish in this post. Today I just want to add some of points: 1 If you’re up to publishing some serious amount of data, variant with adding a dummy dlist with 1 item and using it as dimension for publish seems a very bad idea.  You’re [...]

2 excellent Proven Practices documents were published today, describing how to speed up publising (cognos.com login is required): – using oracle – using ms sql server Same old “If you are loading data, drop indexes” roams

A lot of work stops me from investigating it further, but I’ve experienced some errors in admin links (dlinks) from cognos package when data contained double qoutes (“). I guess, this is due to the fact that package links generate an xml mapping file (source to destination) which contains lines like and this file is [...]

There are some situations when you definitely need some way of recognizing new input from user. These are rather rare occasions, but when it’s nice to have such a tool is sack. One of the applications was discussed in this communities topic. By the way, I’m spending much time on communities these days (it’s a [...]