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Starting Fresh.

I’m creating a Demo MicroStrategy Development install for the new place. The ultimate goal, I think is to get away from the in house development, which can be tedious, and move towards the fully SOA solution.

I already have SQL Development Server on my laptop, so I’m going to be using that as the Metadata/Statistics/History Database. I have to fun of bridging to a Teradata Database for the actual project…which is going to be interesting, considering I’ve always used SQL normalized data warehouses, so this will be a welcome change.

I’m using Windows 7 on a Dell Latitude E4300 Laptop, P9600 @ 2.53 gHz and 4 gigs of RAM. So, it should be fine for Demo Purposes.

First off, I forgot how quick the install process is (all things considered), as well as how simple the interface is for defining your various data sources. Make sure also to install the Tutorial if you’re new to the process. You can learn more from the Tutorial and Analytics projects than any manual that MicroStrategy provides, at least for me. Based on my new job functions, I’m becoming increasingly interested in the statistical modeling capabilities of MicroStrategy.

As a side note: if you want to waste some time, and you have an error on your Intelligence Server when you try to start it that states:

“Failed to start service Error Code: -1 Error Message: StartUpManager::StartUpManager():LoadServerDef failed. Return Code: 0×80041404′”

Here’s a hint for you…maybe you’re like me, and you gave the ODBC access to your MetaData read only…which is stupid. I admit it.

On with the development!! I’ll post as I see fit.