An interesting issue popped up yesterday regarding the calculated member syntax. I had to multiply negative amounts in a financial cube for certain account categories that had negative amounts. The cube also had a Many:Many relationship between financial accounts and account groups which may be related to the issue. So, I had the following scope assignment: CREATE MEMBER CURRENTCUBE.[Multiplier] /* Old Style*/ AS [Financial Account].[Financial…
Aggregates of aggregates is a new feature in SQL Server R2 Reporting Services. It can be better understood by the sample Aggregates.rdl report ([View:https://prologika.com/CS/cfs-file.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Blogs.Components.WeblogFiles/blog/2474.aggregates.rdl]). It shows sales grouped by year and quarter. The Year group subtotals use the Sum aggregation function to sum the quarter sales. The report footer total averages the year subtotals. Prior to R2, authoring such a report would require dividing the…
Readers have been asking about a revised edition of my Applied Microsoft Analysis Services book for version 2008. First of all, I'd like to thank all my readers who bought and liked the book. This book has been a great success and it really exceeded my expectations in any way! It has great reviews on Amazon and it has sold over 10,000 copies to date,…
Continuing my intrepid journey in the SQL Server 2008 R2 land, I will discuss the new features of the recently-released CTP3. In this blog, I'll talk about the first new feature that caught my attention – BIDS support for 2008 and R2 projects. After hearing the outcry from many developers about project compatibility, in R2 Microsoft has decided to support both SQL Server 2008 and…
Microsoft announced release on SQL Server 2008 R2 November CTP (CTP3) with a build number of #1352.12. MSDN, TechNet Subscribers and TAP customers can download the SQL Server 2008 R2 November CTP today. Non-subscribers will be able to access the CTP on Nov. 11th. This should be a feature-complete build that includes all SQL Server R2 functionality. Reporting Services The new Reporting Services features include:…
Reporting Services supports an Aggregate function to retrieve aggregated values directly from the data provider if the provider supports this feature. The Aggregate function is especially useful with retrieving data from Analysis Services because it may be difficult if not impossible to recreate aggregated values on the report, such as when the cube script overwrites the server aggregates. It's easy to use the Aggregate function.…
New OS (Windows 7 in this case) and new issues when trying to connect to Analysis Services on a remote server. I installed Windows 7 and added it to a corporate domain. I can use SSMS to connect to some SSAS servers but there was one server (the most important of course) which refused the connections with the following dreadful message which I am sure…
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An interesting "issue" popped up today. I did a fresh install of Windows 7 on my brand new HP 8530w laptop, which is a great laptop BTW. I install SQL Server 2008 followed by SP1 only to find that the Web Service URL and Report Manager URL don't show up in the Reporting Services Configuration Manager. The report sever would run just fine on http://localhost/reportserver…
After retiring Office Web Components (OWC), which can hardly can pass the web test as it is implemented as an ActiveX control, Microsoft left developers with no web-based browser for Analysis Services. True, for those who can afford the hefty price tag, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) supports server-side Excel spreadsheets that render to HTML. However, while Excel rules the Windows-based OLAP browser space, HTML-based…
