What's a good screencast for an introduction to dimensional models and SQL Server Analysis Services? - business-intelligence

My team is getting ready to start using SQL Server Analysis Services on our project but none of us have a lot of experience with it. What's a good screencast we can watch to get us started?

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Autodesk Viewer on Online Server

I have implemented the Autodesk Viewer API and it is working great as long as we are in my local environment.
But the application in which the viewer has been integrated has been deployed on online server and since then there are several bugs in the viewer. It takes longer to load the file or sometimes doesn’t load it at all.
Are there more configurations required while deploying on an online server? Especially when it is a secure one (https)?
Do we need to convert our free trial to a subscription to have higher performance ?
There still is 86 cloud credits left in the free trial but we are ready to switch to a subscription if necessary.
Your help will be highly appreciated. I'm looking forward to your answers.
Kind regards,
A.
There should be no performance differences and no limitations between running your Forge-based server code locally vs publicly, or via HTTP vs HTTPS. Please send us more details about the stack you're using in an email to forge (dot) help (at) autodesk (dot) com and we'll take a look at it.

Error in Web player due to Spotfire Statistics Services

when i open dashbaord in web player i am getting following error.
"There is no URL specified for TIBCO Spotfire Statistics Services."
I have checked the box to use locally-installed Enterprise Runtime for engine.
What is the solution for this. Or do anyone have a custom url that i can use to face this issue.
Much appreciated
This is not a programming question, hence the down and close votes.
Using the terr engine on the webplayer needs to have a working spofire statistics server. Using the locally-installed terr engine only works for the client software.

What is Snaplogic?

As per Wikipedia:
SnapLogic is a commercial software company that provides Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) tools for connecting Cloud data sources, SaaS applications and on-premises business software applications.
It is surely a competitor to informatica, but it doesn't seem to be just another ETL tool. I have a rough understanding that it is used for data integration but that's about it.
Is it merely an ETL tool or does it have any other functionality? Also, what are iPaaS tools in general?
Well, the best place to learn about SnapLogic will be their website, https://www.snaplogic.com/
Here is a video of SnapLogic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYJK7bjOlA0
A simple developer friendly example:
Let's say i want to search for twitter feeds posted with a particular hashtag by a particular person and write that data into a database of my choice or into amazon S3. SnapLogic allows me to do that without learning about the Twitter API and AWS. SnapLogic takes care of the abstraction for the user so that they can focus on the business logic of things.
The demos are available in the blog: http://www.snaplogic.com/blog
A look at SnapLogic on crunchbase is not a bad idea and you could also find their competitors there.
Your other questions like what are integration platform as a service(iPaaS) tools is too basic and should just be googled.
Basically there are two types of cloud integration, iPaaS and dPaaS
Basically SnapLogic is a iPaas Tool (Integration Platforma as a Service), One of the growing online cloud based integration ETL tool.
As per the Gartner report one of leader in "Enterprise Integration Platform as a Service" refer below link
https://www.snaplogic.com/press-releases/gartner-names-snaplogic-as-a-leader-in-the-magic-quadrant
About tool and few useful links,
1.Designer
It's a canvas area to play and develop your integration pipelines.
2.Manager
Is is a main important to manage all the projects , pipelines, assets ,accounts,creating users and providing permissions, and also import and export of
projects.
3.Dashboard
Monitoring the pipelines logs and information of running pipelines and history.
Useful links:
1.Main site:
https://www.snaplogic.com
2.SnapLogic free trial:
https://www.snaplogic.com/free-trial
3.SnapLogic Documentation
http://doc.snaplogic.com/
4.SnapLogic Community
https://community.snaplogic.com/
5.SnapLogic Blog
https://www.snaplogic.com/blog
Also recently they released SnapLogic Extremem, Please have a look
https://www.snaplogic.com/press-releases/introducing-snaplogic-extreme-to-help-data-engineers-operationalize-cloud-based-big-data-integrations

Azure Website Performance - MVC Application Azure Websites

I am hoping to get some advice as to how i can figure out what is going on with some performance issues i am suffering from. I have a custom MVC application which is running on Azure Websites in West Europe datacenter. I have one of our offices trying to connect to the website from Singapore which is where the problem lies. If i connect to the website myself (from UK) the performance is fast and zippy. If our Singapore office tries to connect the performance is terribly slow. Sometimes getting to the initial homepage is slow (i.e. no database connections required for login page).
The page will sometimes just sit and "hang" there. What i want to know is how can i debug the performance issues with Azure? What kind of monitoring or performance checks can i do to see if it is a website / sql issue.
Thanks
I would suggest using Application Insights. It's easy to add to a custom MVC app, and will give you good info to help determine where exactly the issue lies.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/app-insights-detect-triage-diagnose/
The Azure New Relic add in from the market place is very useful. There is a free version which gives you plenty of detail on browser performance and basic sql profiling.
It can provide such details as shown in the screen shot below.
You can use the Support Site Extension (http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2014/12/01/new-updates-to-support-site-extension-for-azure-websites/) which would allow you to look at live event logs and HTTP traffic. There are also some more advanced tools for performance issues (i.e. memory dump, event viewer logs). For a deeper dive into debugging in Azure App Service see: https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/BRK4704.
Also as Ben said, Application Insights (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/app-insights-detect-triage-diagnose/) may help.

Build simple Vertx web server in multi Server

I'm a newbie in Vert.x and have many issue with it. There is a litle document and tutorial about it
I want to build an web service running in multi server by Vert.x. And if I do that, do I need to config anything, such as DNS...? Anyone has document about Vert.x, please share
This is a very broad and vague question, not really suited to stack exchange. However there are website tutorials available for a number of languages at http://vertxio-hornmicro.rhcloud.com/tutorials.html.
Regarding, DNS etc. I would need to know more about your setup, if you just want to develop something locally try one of the tutorials on the above link.

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