Today was supposed to be the birthday of the SQL Server 2008 Business Intelligence Development and Maintenance Toolkit by Microsoft Press but it's not available with retailers, such as Amazon, yet. I guess a couple or so more days as the book is finding its way to resellers. As with the 2005 version, I was privileged to work together with Erik Veerman and Dejan Sarka…
Read articleIssue: An interesting question popped today on the discussion list about overwriting the default of a cascading parameter. In this particular case, the report has two parameters: Frequency and HireDate. The HireDate parameter is dependent on the Frequency parameter. Specifically, when the user changes the Frequency parameter, custom code changes the default of the HireDate parameter. Sounds easy, right? Well, not so fast. This requirement…
Read articleAs I mentioned in a previous blog, one very important SSRS enhancement in the recently released SQL Server 2008 SP1 is Report Builder 2.0 ClickOnce. This lets you reconfigure the native and SharePoint integration modes to let the user use Report Builder 2.0 instead of Report Builder 1.0. Note that in SharePoint integration mode, installing SP1 only is not enough. That's because there are actually…
Read articleSometimes, it's better just to reset. I came across an issue concerning processing a partition whose containing measure group joins a dimension via another reference dimension. Specifically, when I attempt to process the partition, the server would error out with: The binding for the 'dimension key' column is not a ColumnBinding type What made this issue interesting is that I was able to repro the…
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