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Explore the latest articlesThere is an unfortunate issue with the MDX Query Designer in SSRS 2008 Report Designer and Report Builder 2.0 where changing the main dataset overwrites the parameter datasets. This is a rather annoying issue because often you need to make manual changes to the parameter datasets. However, when you make a change to the main dataset, the MDX Query Designer wipes out the manual changes…
Read articleI've uploaded the slides and code from my Reporting Services 2008 Tips, Tricks, Now and Beyond breakout presentation delivered on May 13th 2009 at TechEd 2009 North America.
Read articleThe TechEd 2009 BI Power Hour demos, which I blogged about before, are posted on the Microsoft BI Blog. Robert Bruckner has also posted the SSRS demo from the TechED USA 2008 Power Hour, which he renamed to Sea Battle.
Read articleI got the final evaluation results from my session. Out of some 15 Business Intelligence sessions, mine was the fourth most attended session with 169 people attending. Based on 35 evaluations submitted, it was ranked as the third most useful session with an average satisfaction score of 3.46 on the scale from 1 to 4. For someone who does presentations occasionally, I'm personally happy with…
Read articleToday was a long day. I started by attending the Richard Tkachuk's A First Look at Large-Scale Data Warehousing in Microsoft SQL Server Code Name "Madison". Those of you familiar with Analysis Services would probably recognize the presenter's name since Richard came from the Analysis Services team and maintains the www.sqlservernanalysisservices.com website. He recently moved to the Madison team. Madison is a new product and…
Read articleI started the day by attending the Donald Farmer and Daniel Yu's session "Creating the Right Cubes for Microsoft Excel and Excel Services" hoping that I'll get a sneak preview of Excel 2010. Alas, it was all about refining the cube definition with display folders, perspectives, hierarchies, etc. so it appears more user-friendly in Excel. Later, I learned that Office 2010 (or whatever it will…
Read articleDay 1 of TechEd 2009 is almost over with the exception of the Community Influencers Party tonight. I heard that this year they expect 7,000 attendees. This is a huge scale-down from previous years. For instance, we had 16,000 attendees at TechEd USA 2007. Economy is hitting everything hard. I thought the keynote was kind of lame. Judging by it, Microsoft has only three products:…
Read articleToday was supposed to be the birthday of the SQL Server 2008 Business Intelligence Development and Maintenance Toolkit by Microsoft Press but it's not available with retailers, such as Amazon, yet. I guess a couple or so more days as the book is finding its way to resellers. As with the 2005 version, I was privileged to work together with Erik Veerman and Dejan Sarka…
Read articleIssue: An interesting question popped today on the discussion list about overwriting the default of a cascading parameter. In this particular case, the report has two parameters: Frequency and HireDate. The HireDate parameter is dependent on the Frequency parameter. Specifically, when the user changes the Frequency parameter, custom code changes the default of the HireDate parameter. Sounds easy, right? Well, not so fast. This requirement…
Read articleAs I mentioned in a previous blog, one very important SSRS enhancement in the recently released SQL Server 2008 SP1 is Report Builder 2.0 ClickOnce. This lets you reconfigure the native and SharePoint integration modes to let the user use Report Builder 2.0 instead of Report Builder 1.0. Note that in SharePoint integration mode, installing SP1 only is not enough. That's because there are actually…
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