I have to admit that my preoccupation with Reporting Services and Analysis Services don’t leave me much bandwidth nowadays to tackle other Microsoft BI (far less third-party) offerings. One of […]
February CTP is out. It brings the much anticipated integration with Visual Studio 2008 and the new BIDS Report Designer. Download the February CTP here: http://www.microsoft.com/sql/2008/prodinfo/download.mspx Updated Books Online for […]
Enterprise Edition of Analysis Services 2005 and 2008 supports semi-additive functions, such as LastNonEmpty, LastChild, and so on, to facilitate working with semi-additive measures, such as account balances and inventory […]
Francois Ajenstat, Director of Product Management for Microsoft SQL Server, tells us that SQL Server 2008 will be released in Q3 2008 while Release Candidate (RC) is expected in Q2. […]
SharePoint always has a trick up its sleeve to surprise the innocent. I have to admit that I continue to be baffled by this technology. Not that I know too […]
Visual Studio 2008 embraces the exciting new world of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) for communicating with services. However, pitfalls await the unwary. I’ve recently tackled invoking the Reporting Services Web […]
The Microsoft CAT team has released a new whitepaper Analysis Services Many-to-Many Dimensions: Query Performance Optimization Techniques. “Many-to-many dimension relationships in SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services (SSAS) enable you to […]
As he posted here, Brian Welcker (Group Program Manager of Reporting Services) is leaving the Reporting Services team and moving to the Microsoft Healthcare Solutions Group. Brian did so much to […]
As you know, business scorecards are the latest BI craze. Nick Barclay was kind enough to send me a copy of his new book Monitoring and Analyzing with Microsoft Office […]
There could be 1001 reasons why IE asks you for credentials when you access a website configured for Windows Authentication and none of them has to do with Reporting Services […]
