Transcend T-SQL Limitations with SQL Server 2005 CLR Objects
One of the coolest SQL Server 2005 feature is .NET CLR objects. When use wisely, CLR integration can solve many nagging problems with T-SQL. For example, you cannot pass columns […]
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Office 2007 Business Intelligence Videos
Microsoft has released several cool Business Intelligence-related webcasts that target the forthcoming Office 2007. The webcasts are taken from the corresponding breakout session delivered at the Microsoft Office System Developers […]
The Many-to-many Revolution
One of the major UDM enhancements that transcends the boundaries of traditional OLAP is flexible dimension relationships, including many-to-many, referenced, and fact relationships. Marco Russo, who helped me tremendously with […]
Long Lines
You will probably never run into this issue unless you have very wide tables but here it is. If use the RS table region and the table has many columns […]
Ampersands Gone Wild
Thanks for the Geoff’s feedback on the discussion list, today I was able to demystify one of the SSRS-SSAS integration “gotchas” that has been pestering me for quite some time. […]
Jazz Up Your Data Using Custom Report Items In SQL Server Reporting Services
As I mentioned in a previous post, one of the most exciting (but not well known and documented) extensibility areas of SSRS 2005 is custom report items (CRI). Read my […]
Cizer.Net Reporting 4.0 Released
Cizer Software today announced the release to market of Cizer.Net Reporting 4.0 – a web-based report designer for Microsoft Reporting Services. According to the company "both Standard and Enterprise editions […]
BI Market Share Report
The latest research by IDC shows Microsoft is ahead of the pack in terms of growth in the business intelligence (BI) tools market. Microsoft ranked fourth in the overall market […]
Dundas Map for Reporting Services
Tuning again on the Dundas wave, the same company announced the pre-release availability of the Dundas Map for Reporting Services 2005. Designed as a custom report item (new extensibility feature […]
Dundas Chart for OLAP Services
If you are on a lookout for a web-based smart chart that can browse SSAS 2005 cubes, don’t look further. Enter Dundas Chart for OLAP Services! Despite the name (what’s […]
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