You can use the Microsoft Connect website to find most requested features. Unfortunately, the search doesn't let you specify a product so the search results may be related to other products. For example, searching on reporting services may bring in results from Analysis Services and reporting. Nevertheless, it was quite interesting to find the top voted suggestions. For example, the following query shows the top…
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Scenario: You have an Internet-facing web application that uses the Visual Studio ReportViewer control to render reports. The application takes care of authenticating the users. You want all report requests to the report server to go under a single (trusted) Windows account. There are at least two approaches to implement this scenario: Basic Authentication You can configure ReportViewer for basic authentication by implementing the Microsoft.Reporting.WebForms.IReportServerCredentials…
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Don Demsak pointed out another Silverlight-based control from Infragistics, which is currently in a CTP phase. There are actually two controls: XamWebDataChart and XamWebPivotGrid. I played a bit with it and it looks great. I liked the Excel-like paradigm with the metadata pane on the right and the PivotChart and PivotTable synchronized. As I've been saying – give me a Silverlight-based Excel Pivot and I…
Read articleAnalysis Services leads the OLAP server market and it should be your platform of choice for historical and trend reporting. In the spirit of the season, here is my Top 10 Wish List for Analysis Services. All items are related to regular cubes and none to PowerPivot which I am yet to try. Improved client support – No 1 on my list has nothing to…
Read articleReporting Services has gone a long way for the past five years and it's getting better. In the spirit of the season, here is my Reporting Services Top 10 Wish List revised from three years ago. This list is based on my work, so your priorities may differ. Improved Analysis Services integration – Since its debut in SSRS 2005, the MDX query designer hasn't changed.…
Read articleIn case you've missed this, the Pivot era has begun. After Excel PivotTable and PivotChart, we'll have PowerPivot in SQL Server 2008 R2. But Pivot evolves… A co-worker showed me today a glimpse of the Pivot future which I guess is the Microsoft Live Labs Pivot. Since grids and charts are not cool anymore we now have pictures and animation. It's hard for me to…
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Now that I've got my copy and read it, I can say a few things about the book Expert Cube Development with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services by Chris Webb, Alberto Ferrari, and Marco Russo. As mentioned in another post, the authors (all MVPs and prominent SSAS experts) don't disappoint and you won't go wrong picking up this book. The book is somewhat small…
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