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Linux VMWare image of MicroStrategy 9.0 trial
Aug 10th
I was told to find about MicroStrategy pricing by MicroStrategy COE head (more on this sometime later). I just gave him reply, it is virtually free, something totally unbelievable for the actual requester .
I was requested some more information on this. So start taking a dig of something new on site. Notable change on license. It happened sometime back but didn’t post as was not that big. Previously support was available for only 25 and 100 named user, but now 50 and 75 named user licenses are also on sale. I had thought about it in the beginning, and now it is there. 
While taking a dig, I landed on this page. Now MicroStrategy is giving a ready-made Readhat Linux VMWare image of Trail version of MicroStrategy 9.0. Great! This will give a good opportunity to end user who run their servers on Linux. To download click here and select Download: Trial Linux. As usual a free MicroStrategy account is required. You just need to use your corp email address to create the account. You need to request for a 30 days trial serial key and activate the installation withing 7 days. AFAIK, all employees of companies that compete with MicroStrategy do not get access to free downloads. 
Row number as Attribute
Aug 10th
This is the statement that one can used to generate the row number as an attribute to be placed as the leftmost column on the grid.
ApplySimple(“row_number() OVER (ORDER BY #0 ASC)”, [ID COLUMN of Fact Table with maximum number of Rows])
Above statement would work for a DB2 warehouse. One need to change the statement for respective warehouse.
Resetting forgotton Administrator Password
Aug 8th
Only 3 tier MicroStrategy metadata that I can run a SQL query is client’s 
Looking forward for people who can execute the following SQL statement directly against the MicroStrategy metadata. Perfectly legal and DMCA compliant as encryption is not broken but bypassed.
UPDATE DSSMDUSRACCT
SET PASSWD = ’00000000c34abc5741b1cf54247cbc76af3b513ec911585a22b95befb7e10c14′
WHERE upper(LOGIN) = ‘ADMINISTRATOR’
If above given password doesn’t work use any of following:
9c1185a5c5e9fc54612808977ee8f548b2258d31
00000000187c9eeace8a9d2b94b7b8c21d4e1d10c911585ad5674d244057eb6f
It may be very foolish of me trying to bypass the RMD 160 encryption 
. I don’t even know if it works. Basically the above given SQL statement rests the password to “” (nothing). As I do not have any easy access, please let me know if it works for you. You may have to change the SQL syntax of the DBMS in which your metadata is stored.
Note: I’m not responsible if your metadata is redundant due to use of the above SQL statement or use of above statement bring you issues at your job. Also, this would work only in a metadata NOT having used in 2 tier configuration prior to execution of SQL statement. ie, you must connect to the metadata using a 3 tier connection before execution.
Intelligence Server SDK startup kit
Aug 2nd
I happen to know a guy or two whose curiosity for Intelligence Server SDK increased alarmingly in the last couple of months. I dedicate this article to them, and anybody who would like to get their hands dirty with some cool stuff.
But first of all, what is IS SDK? Most of the SDK guys are familiar with the Web SDK, the one which allows endless customizing to the web interface of MicroStrategy, amongst other things. Intelligence Server SDK, on the other hand, deals with reading, creating, modifying and executing objects from your Metadata. One can easily consider it to be Command Manager’s big brother who went to College. Unlike Command Manager, IS SDK is anything but user friendly. But man, it packs a serious punch if you learn how to handle it! The documentation and Tech Notes do provide all the necessary information to do just about anything, but actual examples are scarce.
IS SDK can be used via Visual Basic or C++. Since I’m by no means a pure breed programmer, I work with VBA, which is more or less like speaking English to the computer.
Enough introductions already. If you want to unleash its power, the first thing you must do is connect to a project. This apparently simple task poses enough challenges to deter many an enthusiastic programmer from going any further. I find this counterproductive and quite discomforting.
This is why I assembled a startup kit customized for VB6, which offers the code and explanations on how to connect to a project. Actually, it is the exact form that I used for Metadata Browser.
Download here:
Connection.zip
Updates and new tips may come in the future, depending on your feedback.
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