SSRS Style Templates
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 […]
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Absolute Tabular KPIs
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 […]
Excel Timeline Slicers
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 […]
Applied BI Semantic Model Course Available
Due to the popular demand, I’m adding a new 5-day Applied BI Semantic Model training course to our training classes. This course reflects the growing need of BI developers to […]
Power View Can’t Load Power Pivot Models
Scenario: You have created an SSRS application in SharePoint and specified that the application pool would use a specific domain service account that is designated to SSRS. When you attempt […]
Where is Power Pivot for SharePoint?
In the process of configuring Power Pivot for SharePoint, you need to run the Power Pivot Configuration Tool, which the documentation explains well here and here. What it doesn’t tell […]
Atlanta MS BI Group Meeting on Jun 30th
Join us for our next Atlanta MS BI Group meeting tomorrow, Monday, June 30th, to learn about implementing BI for financial reporting. You’ll also get a glimpse of the newly […]
Microsoft Azure Machine Learning
Yesterday, Microsoft announced Microsoft Azure Machine Learning, previously known as project Passau. Your humble correspondent has been participating in the Preview Program. Basically, Microsoft Azure Machine Learning is a service […]
Optimizing Arbitrary Shaped Sets
I’m working on optimizing a fairly large cube (2.5 TB) with some 25 billion rows in the fact table. The customer was complaining about long-running queries. Most queries would specify […]
Partition Bug with Visual Studio
There is a glaring bug with Multidimensional and Visual Studio 2012 and above. When attempting to add a new partition, the Partition Wizard finishes without error but no partition is […]
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