The Rational Guide to Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager 2005
Nick Barclay is telling us that the book The Rational Guide to Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager 2005 that he co-wrote with Adrian Downes is out! You can use BSM […]
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Designing SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services Cubes for Excel 2007 PivotTables Whitepaper
A bit outdated announcement perhaps but the Office team has released a Designing SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services Cubes for Excel 2007 PivotTables whitepaper. Instead of pestering you with how-to […]
Excel Web Access Drill-through to SSRS Report
I’ve been having fun lately with a dashboard page which has an Excel Web Access (EWA) web part connected to a PivotTable report. The PivotTable report is nothing to brag […]
Report Viewer SP1 Redistributables
As I mentioned in a previous blog, Visual Studio 2005 SP1 includes updated versions of both the WinForms and ASP.NET versions of the Report Viewer control. Microsoft has just released […]
Roll Your Own UDM Schema Generator
Documenting the UDM schema is a common requirement but to the best of my knowledge neither Microsoft nor third-party vendors provide schema generators. While you are waiting for a commercial […]
Get More Out of SQL Server Reporting Services Charts
One must-read SSRS resource which I missed was the excellent article “Get More Out of SQL Server Reporting Services Charts” by Robert Bruckner from the Reporting Services dev team. Now […]
MVP Summit Is Over
MVP Summit is over and I am back in Atlanta. I had great time meeting other MVPs, MS employees, and learning about the future in MS terms. I posted pictures […]
2007 MVP Global Summit
Joining some 2,000 other MVPs from all around the world, I am heading tomorrow for Seattle to participate in the annual MVP Global Summit. It’s time to shake hands, take […]
Report Builder and Text-based Calculated Members
Although not a common practice, UDM supports defining text-based calculated members. For example, here is an useless but valid text-based calculated member: Create Member CurrentCube.[Measures].[Hello] As “Hello”; Much to my […]
SQL Server 2005 SP2 Refresh
The initial release of SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 (SP2) contained an issue that caused maintenance plan cleanup tasks to remove data before the specified cleanup interval. Install this […]
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