In Search of Aggregations
The other day I decided to spend some time and educate myself better on the subject of aggregations. Much to my surprise, no matter how hard I tried hitting different […]
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To Partition or Not – This is the Question
As Analysis Services users undoubtedly know, partitioning and aggregations are the two core tenants of a good Analysis Services data design. Or, at least they have been since its first […]
Fixing Indicator Images
Indicators, a new feature of Reporting Services 2008 R2, let you show images for state values on your reports and avoid using custom images and expressions. Sean Boon’s recent blog […]
Upgrading To Report Viewer 2010
Visual Studio 2010 ships with updated ReportViewer controls which Brian Hartman discusses in his blog. One issue I recently run into with the Visual Studio 2008 ReportViewer ASP.NET control with […]
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Feature Pack Available
Microsoft released the Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Feature Pack. Among other things, it includes Report Builder 3.0, Reporting Services SharePoint Add-in, and PowerPivot for Excel.
Atlanta.MDF Presentation
My presentation “What’s New in Reporting Services 2008 R2” for the local Atlanta.MDF group went well last night. We had some 80 people attending and I had some great questions. […]
Online Analysis Services 2008 Class on May 17th
There is still time to register for the online Applied Analysis Services 2008 class run on May 17th. No travel, no hotel expenses, just 100% content delivered right to your […]
Synchronizing Reporting Services Groups
One new R2 feature that I discovered while reading the Reporting Services Recipes book, is group data synchronization. Consider the following report (download the two sample reports here): In this […]
Book Review – Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services Recipes
This is a review of the latest addition to the long repertoire of Reporting Services books – Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services Recipes (ISBN: 978-0-470-56311-3). When you learn a new […]
Scope Assignments and Missing Members
The Analysis Services server parses the cube script on deploy and complains in case of missing dimension members. You can use the IsError() function to handle missing members, such as […]
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