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Month: May 2008

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BI Salary Survey

Not sure how much your BI expertise is worth? The 2008 TDWI Salary, Roles, and Responsibilities Report TDWI survey may help.

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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 in April which is now selling as a commercial offering. Now, lots of things have been said about the…

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SSAS HTTP Connectivity and SharePoint

Scenario You won't enable SSAS HTTP connectivity via a SharePoint site. Issue You followed the instructions in the Configuring HTTP Access to SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services on Microsoft Windows Server 2003 whitepaper but you get " Failed to start monitoring directory changes" error when you try to access the SSAS server by its pump URL, such as http://www.adventure-works/olap/msmdpump.dll. Solution Ignore the step where you…

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Sharing Lost Reports with Web Users

Scenario You need to configure a SharePoint site integrated with Reporting Services for Internet access. In our case, the end users would authenticate with Windows security by using local Windows account created on the web server. Issues Report URLs reference the machine NetBIOS name and fail to execute with "The path of the item '<path' is not valid. The full path must be less than…

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