Speaking at TechEd 2009 USA
One of my TechEd 2009 session proposals got approved. The session is tentatively named Reporting Services 2008 Tips and Tricks, How-to, and Beyond. I am planning to cover solutions to […]
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Hacking MDX Query Designer Parameters
[View:/CS/cfs-file.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Blogs.Components.WeblogFiles/blog/simpleparameters.zip]Continuing our intrepid journey in the land of SSRS-SSAS integration, after we’ve figured out how to retrieve the cube metadata, we are ready to tackle another unchartered territory: query parameters. […]
Report Builder 2.0 ClickOnce
One important change that Service Pack 1 for SQL Server 2008 (public CTP available here) will bring is ClickOnce deployment of Report Builder 2.0. By default, however, Report Manager or […]
Reporting Services Tracer
To make a humble contribution to open source, I’ve just uploaded the Reporting Services Tracer (RsTracer) project to CodePlex. RsTracer helps you trace the URL and SOAP traffic to/from a […]
Retrieving Cube Metadata in Reports
An interesting question popped up on the discussion list the other day about how to retrieve a list of the cube measures so the report author can display them in […]
Named Set Subtotals in Excel
So many SSAS browsers, so little resemblance… And each browser has an independent view of which SSAS features it cares about and how it will go about implementing them. For […]
Business Intelligence is Fifth Hottest IT Skill
ComputerWorld ranks BI as the fifth hottest IT skill.
Implementing Cube Settings
I had to tackle an interesting requirement the other day. A cube had a number of KPIs defined but the threshold values that were used to define the “good”, “bad”, […]
Reporting Services 2008 Dashboard Goes Live
Thanks to the Robert Bruckner’s blog, I’ve learned that Microsoft has published the Reporting Services 2008 Information Aggregator. It is a cool dashboard page that aggregates a variety of resources […]
SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 is Out
Yesterday, Microsoft released SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3. Reporting Services Report Builder added support with Teradata. Note that some manual configuration is required to turn things ‘on’ as well […]
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