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• Reporting Services 2008 Dashboard Goes Live

  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... Posted Jan 05 2009, 12:44 PM by tlachev with | with no comments Filed under: Reporting Services, Business Intelligence

• Dimensionalizing Pivoted Measures

  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... Posted Dec 15 2008, 07:43 PM by tlachev with | with no comments Filed under: Reporting Services, Analysis Services, Business Intelligence

• Dundas Chart Controls for .NET Available

  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... Posted Oct 27 2008, 12:09 PM by tlachev with | with no comments Filed under: Business Intelligence

• It's Done

  A quick update on my book Applied Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services. I am happy to announce that the work on the manuscript is over and the manuscript RTM'd (released to manufacturing). The paper copy should be available on the reseller... Posted Jul 20 2008, 11:11 PM by tlachev with | with no comments Filed under: Reporting Services, Business Intelligence, SQL Server 2008

• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Feature Pack RC0, June 2008

  Today, Microsoft released an updated feature pack for SQL Server 2008 RC0. Among other things, it includes: A web downloadable installer for Report Builder 2.0 which is not included anymore with the SQL Server 2008 setup An updated version of the RS add... Posted Jun 10 2008, 07:51 AM by tlachev with | with no comments Filed under: Reporting Services, Analysis Services, Business Intelligence, SQL Server 2008

• BI Salary Survey

  Not sure how much your BI expertise is worth? The 2008 TDWI Salary, Roles, and Responsibilities Report TDWI survey may help. Posted May 20 2008, 02:46 PM by tlachev with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: General, Business Intelligence

• Intelligencia Query

  Chris Webb, a fellow MVP and MDX guru, who's blog is a must-read for all SSAS junkies, was kind enough to let me take a look at the Intelligencia Query product he's been working on for a while with Andrew Wiles. Chris announced the product back... Posted May 14 2008, 10:37 PM by tlachev with | with 9 comment(s) Filed under: Reporting Services, Analysis Services, Business Intelligence

• Applied Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services

  This is not an April's fool joke. I am excited to make an early announcement about my next book , Applied Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services, which has been keeping me busy lately. There are many exciting features coming up the next (third... Posted Apr 01 2008, 10:48 PM by tlachev with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Reporting Services, Business Intelligence

• Applied Microsoft Analysis Services 2005 Goes E-Book

  I happy to announce my book "Applied Microsoft Analysis Services 2005" is now available as an Adobe PDF e-book. The first retailer that Google Alerts reported to sell it is Diesel Ebooks . It should soon pop up on all popular ebook retailer... Posted Mar 27 2008, 08:16 AM by tlachev with | with no comments Filed under: Writing, Analysis Services, Business Intelligence

• The Rational Guide To Planning with Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007

  I have to admit that my preoccupation with Reporting Services and Analysis Services don't leave me much bandwidth nowadays to tackle other Microsoft BI (far less third-party) offerings. One of the products I know I need to catch up is the planning... Posted Mar 15 2008, 06:46 PM by tlachev with | with no comments Filed under: Business Intelligence

• Relational Guide to Monitoring and Analyzing with Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007

  As you know, business scorecards are the latest BI craze. Nick Barclay was kind enough to send me a copy of his new book Monitoring and Analyzing with Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 by Rational Press which he co-authored with a co-worker... Posted Dec 15 2007, 10:59 PM by tlachev with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Business Intelligence, Microsoft Office

• Radius Producer "Produces" No-nonsense SSAS Support

  In my opinion, the biggest challenge the Microsoft BI initiative faces today is the inadequate support for Analysis Services. The premimum Microsoft reporting tools claim to support SSAS but they all take an idependent view about what features they should... Posted Nov 20 2007, 10:04 PM by tlachev with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Business Intelligence

• SQL Server 2008 November CTP Is Out

  The November CTP (CTP5) of SQL Server 2008 is out . Here are the most significant BI-related highlights that caught my attention. Reporting Services The standalone Report Designer has undergone a major facelift. It now sponsors a shiny Office 2007 ribbon... Posted Nov 19 2007, 01:14 PM by tlachev with | with no comments Filed under: Business Intelligence, SQL Server 2008

• July CTP of SQL Server 2008 Is Out

  July CTP of SQL Server 2008 (Katmai) is out . On the BI side of things: New SSRS Report Engine "Improvements represent the two major infrastructure changes for Reporting Services. Reporting Services enhances the processing engine and rendering extensions... Posted Jul 31 2007, 10:35 PM by tlachev with | with no comments Filed under: Business Intelligence

• TechEd 2007 US Memoirs

  I am back from an one-week vacation to Clearwater, Florida followed by TechEd 2007 US in Orlando. Overall, nothing earth – shattering on the BI arena from TechEd 2007. Product groups are between releases so most of the content was SQL Server 2005-based... Posted Jun 09 2007, 11:30 PM by tlachev with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Reporting Services, Analysis Services, Business Intelligence