The one thing I don't get with showers is why there always is water left in them. I mean, I get the physics of it, I just don't understand why I can't just press a little lever on the shower battery and make the remaining water flow out in the drain. Then I can be sure that no water will slowly go out of my shower and make a damp bathroom, chalk ...
I don't know if this is bash or an OS X feature, but nonetheless: today I discovered that there's tab-completion that takes .ssh/config into account! I on-instinct did a tab after writing part of the hostname I wanted and (boom!) there it was, auto-completed with a colon. So to SSH to my mini I did "ssh mi
What bugs me very much about working with KPIs in PerformancePoint's Dashboard is that you cannot do simple calculations. For instance, I have a sales cube that has the measures unit cost and price the unit was sold for. I would like to say that a loss (price/cost < 1) makes the KPI red, a <20% margin makes it yellow and >=20% is green. ...
One of my main gripes with Microsoft SSIS is that there is no way to reuse logic. In my data integration task I needed to do the same lookup and translation tasks (typically convert to upper case, replace " with 'N/A', look up column in side table and use the IDs from that table instead) many times, in my case when importing data from an Axapta ...
In Scott Larsons blogpost referenced in my last post he gives a short but important note: his favourite MDX resource. And I agree: a 62 article series in learning MDX. Since I've worked with SQL ...
