Thanks to the Robert Bruckner's blog , I've learned that Microsoft has published the Reporting Services 2008 Information Aggregator. It is a cool dashboard page that aggregates a variety of resources related to Reporting Services, such as training...
Yesterday, Microsoft released SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3. Reporting Services Report Builder added support with Teradata. Note that some manual configuration is required to turn things 'on' as well as you need to install the .Net provider from...
Issue You have a table with pivoted measures, such as: Use the following statement to create and populate the table: CREATE TABLE pvt ( VendorID int , DateID int , MaturityAmount1 int , MaturityAmount2 int , MaturityAmount3 int , RepricingAmount1 int...
A common issue when setting up Reporting Services integration with SharePoint is that the SharePoint add-in is not installed properly although the setup program doesn't indicate any issues. More than likely, the culprit is that the person who installed...
Microsoft has released the Cumulative Update 2 build (build number 1779) for SQL Server 2008. The update is not publicly available as of now. It has to be released individually based on whether you are running into a bug fixed in the build and it is password...
Issue : You author an SSRS report that connects to a cube. You want to create a calculated member that uses a report parameter. For example, the Selector calculated member in the following query returns 1 if a given employee has exceeded 1 million in...
On Friday, Microsoft released chart controls for Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5. These are re-tooled Dundas .NET chart controls which are now baked in the .NET framework. This is important because you can add the same stunning Dundas chart features to your...
I've been involved recently in a quest to optimize an SSAS 2008 long-running query that would return the 12-month history of a KPI. Since the KPI was displayed on a dashboard page alongside other KPIs and charts, it was important to optimize the query...
Today, Microsoft released Report Builder 2.0 (build 10.00.1600.60) , as Robert Bruckner announced in his blog. This is a major milestone in the Reporting Services roadmap. In my opinion, Report Builder 2.0 is one of the most important and exciting features...
At the BI Conference in Seattle, Microsoft announced the future roadmap for next BI-oriented SQL Server release, nee Kilimanjaro, that will focus on three major teams: • Self Service Analytics • Self Service Reporting • Sharing, Collaboration & Management...
As the news arrived today (see Mosha Pasumansky blog , Chris Webb blog , and Marco Russo blog ) , the BI Conference revealed what has been brewing for a while in the Microsoft BI nest. Project Gemini, which one may call Memory-based Dimensional Model...
Microsoft has released the first for SQL Server 2008 cumulative update package. Among other issues, it fixes the SSAS bug with requesting measures with mixed aggregation functions which I previously reported .
Issue: You use Excel as an OLAP browser connected to an SSAS cube. You've defined the name of the Month attribute in the Date hierarchy in the format MMM-YYYY. While months are sorted in an ascending order in Excel, descending sorting doesn't...
Scenario: You need to personalize the captions of calculated members or/and KPIs of an SSAS cube. For example, a solution vendor may need to deploy a cube to multiple clients. Instead of maintaining separate cube definitions, the vendor may prefer to...
As I mentioned in my previous blog , Report Builder 2.0 RC1 has arrived. Although perhaps too early in the game, you may wonder how you can get the most out of Report Builder 2.0 and extend it when the built-in features are not enough. As Report Designer...