Join us tonight for a knowledge-packed meeting of Atlanta MS BI Group to learn how to optimize and automate your ETL. Presentation: Making your SSIS Fly Beyond the Sky Level: Intermediate to Advanced Date: Monday, August 25th, 2014 Time 6:30 – 8:30 PM ET Place: South Terraces Building (Auditorium Room) 115 Perimeter Center Place Atlanta, GA 30346 Overview: How fast can an ETL package…
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Now that Microsoft has decoupled SQL Server Data Tools from the SQL Server 2014 setup, the quest to find SSDT has started. You can download SSDT from the Microsoft SQL Server Data Tools page. Note that to get the BI project templates, you need the SSDT-BI install depending on the Visual Studio version you have (scroll all the way down the page to see the SSDT-BI…
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As you probably know, the SSRS Report Wizard allows users to select predefined report styles. These styles are basic "skins" that apply to report foreground and background colors. A question came in from a student as to how to modify/add styles. You can alter the existing style templates or add new ones by editing the StyleTemplates.xml file in the \Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\PrivateAssemblies\Business…
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An interesting requirement popped up during an Analysis Services class I'm teaching this week. The customer wants to implement a Tabular/PowerPivot KPI that has this pseudo logic: CASE WHEN Actual Below Goal && Below LastYearSales Then Red WHEN Actual Below Goal && Above LastYearSales Then Yellow WHEN Actual >= Goal Then Green END Although I'm using Tabular, the same calculations will work with Power…
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In an attempt to improve visualizations of Excel-based dashboards, Excel 2013 introduced a Timeline filter. Specifically designed to visualize dates, the Timeline filter works similarly to regular slicers which were introduced in Excel 2010. Similar to a regular slicer, Timeline connects at the connection level and is capable of filtering multiple reports. It supports also extended selections, such as to select multiple years. However, there…
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