The need for a stand-alone Report Designer is real. True, developers, including myself, enjoyed the VS.NET Report Designer. But novice users were overwhelmed with the complexity of the VS.NET IDE […]
This is my first blog about SSRS 2008. The July CTP (CTP4) of SQL Server 2008 (aka Katmai) includes the new hosting model of Reporting Services. Gone is the dependency […]
I’ve come across a good best practices article about scaling out SSAS by Denny Lee and Nicholas Dritsas. It describes how to set up a load-balanced scalable querying environment for Microsoft […]
July CTP of SQL Server 2008 (Katmai) is out. On the BI side of things: New SSRS Report Engine “Improvements represent the two major infrastructure changes for Reporting Services. Reporting […]
If you have a cube with large dimensions you may have come across the following error: The expression contains a function that cannot operate on a set with more than […]
From the latest MS press release “In anticipation for the most significant Microsoft enterprise event in the next year, Turner announced that Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and Microsoft […]
I was setting up Reporting Services 2005 today on a clean Windows XP machine and I came across the infamous error: The report server has encountered a configuration error. See […]
I spent a couple of hours today trying to get SSRS 2005 working on Vista. I was getting the infamous IIS 500 error when browsing the Report Manager (http://localhost/reports) and […]
I came across this little gem which I haven’t noticed so far. A nice summary of the 10 things you should do to optimize the UDM query performance. The best […]
SQL Magazine published the first part of my article Protect UDM with Dimension Data Security in its July issue. This article explains the fundamentals of dimension data security. I am […]
