I’ve just learned that I’ve been selected to present at TechEd 2006 US in Boston! I've been honored to present Reporting Services for three consecutive years at TechEd. This time, I will change things a bit and instead of focusing on the development area, I will talk about integrating Reporting Services...
Nick Barclay from Australia has good things to say about my book “Applied Microsoft Analysis Services in Action” . No, I didn’t sweat blood, but I have to admit that writing this one wasn’t easy! It took me almost twice as long to write it as my previous “Microsoft Reporting Services in Action” book...
Here is an interesting SSRS-SSAS integration gotcha that got me recently. Suppose that you have the following MDX query. Needless to say, this query is most likely wrong to start with. It brings the members of three dimensions even if they don’t exist with each other. The correct version should probably...
My book “Applied Microsoft Analysis Services 2005” book is a bestseller on Amazon! It is currently ranked No 94 for Computers and Internet (as of Jan 23). The book is now in its second printing (it's been available on Amazon since 12/15/2005). Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Microsoft has just published an excerpt from my book "Applied Microsoft Analysis Services 2005" on TechNet. Learn how to integrate SSRS and SSAS to build smart reports using data mining and CLR stored procedures.
SSAS 2005 can be configured for HTTP access, e.g. for Internet reporting. Here are two whitepapers with step-by-step instructions for configuring Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP for HTTP access with SSAS 2005.
Thanks for Marco Russo’s blog , I’ve learned that Microsoft has released an updated version (version 1.5) of the Excel 2002/2003 Add-in for SQL Server Analysis Services. I discussed in details how version 1.0 could be used to generate ad hoc reports from SSAS cubes in my book Applied Microsoft Analysis...