Dynamic Sets with SQL Server 2008 R2 and Excel 2010

Thomas Ivarsson shows in his Blog that the use of dynamic sets is much improved for the combination of SQL Server 2008 R2 and Excel 2010.

Partitioning

Teo Lachev writes in his Blog about the rules for the definition of partitions. For him partitioning is mainly a feature to improve the manageability of cubes and not to improve query performance - and I guess he's right.