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I’ve just learned that I’ve been selected to present at TechEd 2006 US in Boston! I've been honored to present Reporting Services for three consecutive years at TechEd. This time, I will change things a bit and instead of focusing on the development area, I will talk about integrating Reporting Services and Analysis Services. As of now, the main topics I am planning to include are: 1. SSAS…

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Nick Barclay’s Review

Nick Barclay from Australia has good things to say about my book “Applied Microsoft Analysis Services in Action”. No, I didn’t sweat blood, but I have to admit that writing this one wasn’t easy! It took me almost twice as long to write it as my previous “Microsoft Reporting Services in Action” book. For the most part, that was because Analysis Services is a focal…

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SQL Server Express Advanced Services Beta Announced

Euan Garden (Product Unit Manager for SQL Server) tells us that SQL Server Express Advanced Services (which includes Reporting Services Express) has reached a beta stage. I emphasized the importance of choosing the right RS edition in one of my previous blogs.

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When (null) is not NULL

Here is an interesting SSRS-SSAS integration gotcha that got me recently. Suppose that you have the following MDX query. Needless to say, this query is most likely wrong to start with. It brings the members of three dimensions even if they don’t exist with each other. The correct version should probably be to cross-join the attribute hierarchies which is what the MDX Query Designer does…

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Building Report-enabled Applications with the New ReportViewer Controls (Part 1 of 2)

DevX has just published Part 1 of my article Building Report-enabled Applications with the Windows Forms ReportViewer. Part 2 (ASP.NET ReportViewer) should be out by the end of February. Reporting is an integral part of every complete application. The Report Viewer controls greatly reduce the development effort required to report-enable .NET applications. Part one of this two-part article shows you how you can leverage the…

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Logging Report Builder Queries

As you probably know, the RS 2005 Report Builder lets business users create ad-hoc reports. Behind the scenes, the Query Translator converts the report metadata to the native queries supported by the relational data source (SQL Server and UDM with RS 2005 only). If you want to see the underlying queries, you have two choices: 1. You can use the SQL Server Profiler and examing…

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TechEd 2006 Europe Announced

TechEd 2006 Europe will take place in Barcelona, Spain (7 -10 November 2006). Barcelona is one of the cities I always wanted to visit and I hope I will be able to make it. Summer could have been much better for a fiesta, of course ...

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