Sorting Dates in a PivotTable Report
Issue: You use Excel as an OLAP browser connected to an SSAS cube. You’ve defined the name of the Month attribute in the Date hierarchy in the format MMM-YYYY. While […]
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Personalized Cubes
Scenario: You need to personalize the captions of calculated members or/and KPIs of an SSAS cube. For example, a solution vendor may need to deploy a cube to multiple clients. […]
Extending Report Builder 2.0
As I mentioned in my previous blog, Report Builder 2.0 RC1 has arrived. Although perhaps too early in the game, you may wonder how you can get the most out […]
Report Builder 2.0 RC1 is Here
Thanks to Robert Bruckner’s blog, I’ve learned that the Report Builder 2.0 (previously known as Report Designer Preview) Release Candidate 1 is available for download. This should be a feature-complete […]
Where is THE Book?
A few readers are asking about the whereabouts of my book Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services, so I felt I need to write a short status report. The book […]
Nasty SSAS 2008 Bug
There is a nasty known bug with SSAS 2008, where if a query that requests two measures with Sum and LastNonEmpty aggregate functions side by side and the query uses […]
Where is Report Builder 2.0?
With the official release of SQL Server 2008, Microsoft retired the RC0 Feature Pack and added the SQL Server 2008 Feature Pack, August 2008 page. Unfortunately, the Report Builder 2.0 […]
Static Credentials
A new week comes with new issues… I ran into an interesting issue today with Windows integrated security and SharePoint. I was troubleshooting an issue on a behalf of a […]
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Feature Pack, August 2008
Microsoft released a Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Feature Pack, August 2008 page which includes a collection of stand-alone install packages that provide additional value for SQL Server 2008. Strangely, Report […]
Microsoft Has Released SQL Server 2008
Today, Microsoft announced that official release of SQL Server 2008. Build #10.0.1600.22 has been declared as a SQL Server RTM. SQL Server 2008 includes major enhancements to the Microsoft Business Intelligence […]
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