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	<title>Erika&#039;s BI Blog</title>
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		<title>MSBIC &#8211; the B stands for Beignets!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mmmmmmm beignets.
This year I went to the Microsoft BI Conference in food heaven, New Orleans.  In between stuffing my craw with crawfish, I went to a bunch of sessions and actually learned a thing or two!  A very productive week, indeed.
The theme of the conference was definitely PowerPivot.  It&#8217;s here, it&#8217;s free, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Treatise on the ALL() Function in DAX &#8211; or &#8211; &#8216;Is it all er nuthin&#8217; with you?&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With all the hubbub surrounding PowerPivot, I have been given the task of learning DAX: not an easy task when the product is still pre-release and there aren&#8217;t any step-by-step books on hand!  With a list of functions and a vague understanding of how they work, plus powerpivotpro&#8217;s very helpful posts, I decided to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://erikasblog.datainspirations.com/?p=58</link>
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		<title>Running Totals over Arbitrary Sort in MDX</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few months ago I was sitting in on an MDX class Stacia Misner was teaching.  The students were playing with their MDX and wanted to know if it was possible to have a calculation that would show the running sum over products, ordered by the gross profit margin; i.e. we would list the product [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://erikasblog.datainspirations.com/?p=44</link>
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		<title>Calculating Non-Numerical Medians in MDX</title>
		<description><![CDATA[MDX offers many powerful statistical functions, however they have their limitations.  One of the things I&#8217;ve had to learn this past year is what types of statistical functions are available, and what they can and can&#8217;t do.  And when they can&#8217;t do what I want, I&#8217;ve had to come up with alternatives.
One such case of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://erikasblog.datainspirations.com/?p=36</link>
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		<title>Passing Multi-Value SQL Parameters to an MDX Query in Reporting Services</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love String Manipulation   .
To kick off this blog with some real content I&#8217;m starting small.  I recently did some reporting work where I changed the main dataset queries from using a relational database to using a cube.  It sped up performance and resolved a lot [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://erikasblog.datainspirations.com/?p=26</link>
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		<title>Welcome!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to my blog!

A little bit about me:  I joined Data Inspirations in June 2008.  I graduated on a Friday in Boston, flew to Vegas on Saturday, and started work on Monday!  Initially all I could do was data entry, but in the ensuing time I&#8217;ve learned enough T-SQL, MDX, SSRS, SSAS, SSIS, and Sharepoint [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://erikasblog.datainspirations.com/?p=4</link>
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