Here is the presentation I gave on the topic of the Parent Child Dimension at the BI User Group meeting. I tried to summarize most of what I could find on the subject and I hope it helped you learn something new about how this sort of design can aid you in your work.
You can download the presentation here: The Parent Child Dimension PDF
For more details on future meetings and presentations that were already given, please check Ronen Chenn's blog, Yossi Elkayam and Eran Sagi's blog or the Israeli SQL Server site.
It was a pleasure seeing you all and I hope to see you again.
I'm lecturing at the coming BI User Group meeting on Wednesday, June 24th 2009. My lecture will be on the Parent - Child Dimension: the flexibility in design and the cost in cube performance. I'll be going over the basic Parent- Child Dimension and show how we can gradually enhance it. Mostly, I hope you can learn from the lecture how the Parent - Child Dimension may be relevant to your work.
The program for the evening is:
17:30 - 17:45 Gathering
17:45 - 18:45 Ella maschiach - Analysis services ,The Parent - Child Dimension - best practices.
18:45 - 19:15 Q&A
19:15 - 19:30 Break
19:30 - 20:30 Pini Yakuel - The CVM - An Innovative model for customer Lifetime Value maximization ( Extreme Data mining Session)
20:30- 21:00 Q&A
About the lecturers:
Ella Maschiach - a BI Project Manager in the Tel Aviv Municipality.
Pini Yakuel, M.Sc. Engineer, CEO and CO-Founder of Mobius Solutions, an Israeli company that supplies innovative analytical solutions, which enable companies to implement a customer-centric business approach.
I hope to see you in the coming BI User Group meeting.
My blog is 2 years old. Yeah, I know! He's already started walking and talking a bit. It's so strange to see him grow...
Still, I admit that coming to write this post, I couldn't help but think to myself that this time around I don't want to talk about my blog, even though it is his birthday (please forgive me blog). Instead, I'd like to talk about the man who made me start all of this (and a lot of other things as well) - my big brother, Adlai Maschiach.
My brother is 7 years my eldest. Which I guess means (at least) 2 things:
- He got to experience a lot of things and learn a bit more than I did, for a certain point in time.
- I'm his kid sister ;)
I'll elaborate on point number 2 before I address point number 1.
One of my favorite photos of us both is when I was just a baby. You see my brother sitting on the sofa in the living room looking lovingly at a big white ball that he's holding in his hands. That big white ball is me. Little did my brother know that that innocent looking white ball would grow up to be an annoying little sister! Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!...
As a kid, I saw it my life mission to annoy my brother. It didn't have to be in new ways all the time. Sometimes, even using old tricks that would annoy him would be enough to be filed under "fun" for me.
Luckily enough I grew up. And then we simply became good friends. And as good friends, I also got to hear his view on things, his opinion on different subjects and get some advice.
A very good advice he gave was to open this blog. Then, he gave me yet another good advice - to keep writing posts in this blog (which, BTW, is harder than just opening a blog!). Though it required quite a bit of nudging on his part at the beginning, I admit I now enjoy writing and keeping this blog more than I have ever imagined. It has opened me to new people and places in so many ways.
Adlai, I think I am constantly in awe of your knowledge in so many fields - you know ASP .Net, VB .Net, Reporting Services, Integration Services, Silverlight, MOSS, InfoPath, WCF, SQL Server Management, ESB and Biztalk (and if I missed something it's quite simply because I can't keep up with you!). You have already gotten recognition from Microsoft for all the help you've been giving at their Visual Studio forum. Quite a few people have already approached me and told me (knowing that I am your kid sister) of how your webcasts have helped them learn and evolve in their work. You manage to keep two blogs (and another one) with a world of knowledge and data in them, and in between you even managed to put a project on Codeplex! I think I have something else I need to learn from you - time management :)
Adlai, I hope I can, in my little corner, do as much and help as many as you have in your work and day to day life.
Adlai - Thank You, from your kid sister.
Oh and... Happy Birthday Blog :)