Report Builder 2.0 RTM’ed
Today, Microsoft released Report Builder 2.0 (build 10.00.1600.60) , as Robert Bruckner announced in his blog. This is a major milestone in the Reporting Services roadmap. In my opinion, Report Builder […]
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People Ready BI
At the BI Conference in Seattle, Microsoft announced the future roadmap for next BI-oriented SQL Server release, nee Kilimanjaro, that will focus on three major teams: • Self Service Analytics […]
Memory-based Dimensional Model (MDM) on the Horizon
As the news arrived today (see Mosha Pasumansky blog, Chris Webb blog, and Marco Russo blog) , the BI Conference revealed what has been brewing for a while in the […]
Cumulative Update Package 1 for SQL Server 2008
Microsoft has released the first for SQL Server 2008 cumulative update package. Among other issues, it fixes the SSAS bug with requesting measures with mixed aggregation functions which I previously […]
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 […]
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 […]
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