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Explore the latest articlesAn interesting question popped up on the discussion list the other day about how to retrieve a list of the cube measures so the report author can display them in a report parameter. Solution 1: If you just need a list of measures but not the measure metadata, such as display folder, etc., you can use the following (not trivial, ok hacky) query, which I…
Read articleSo many SSAS browsers, so little resemblance... And each browser has an independent view of which SSAS features it cares about and how it will go about implementing them. For example, Excel 2007 will let you use named sets on rows or columns but not as a filter. The cube browser and Report Builder let you use them in the filter area but not on…
Read articleComputerWorld ranks BI as the fifth hottest IT skill.
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I had to tackle an interesting requirement the other day. A cube had a number of KPIs defined but the threshold values that were used to define the "good", "bad", and "so-so" status ranges had to be defined as configurable values at any level of the organization dimension and KPIs. I settled on implementing a measure group that intersects the organization dimension and a new…
Read articleThanks to the Robert Bruckner's blog, I've learned that Microsoft has published the Reporting Services 2008 Information Aggregator. It is a cool dashboard page that aggregates a variety of resources related to Reporting Services, such as training content, white papers, blogs and more. I'm proud to be featured as an MVP J The page also includes to my most recent books and training videos I've…
Read articleYesterday, Microsoft released SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3. Reporting Services Report Builder added support with Teradata. Note that some manual configuration is required to turn things 'on' as well as you need to install the .Net provider from Teradata.
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Issue You have a table with pivoted measures, such as: Use the following statement to create and populate the table: CREATE TABLE pvt (VendorID int, DateID int, MaturityAmount1 int, MaturityAmount2 int, MaturityAmount3 int, RepricingAmount1 int, RepricingAmount2 int, RepricingAmount3 int); GO INSERT INTO pvt VALUES (1,1,4,3,5,4,4, 100); INSERT INTO pvt VALUES (2,1,4,1,5,5,5, 100); INSERT INTO pvt VALUES (1,2,4,3,5,4,4, 200); INSERT INTO pvt VALUES (2,2,4,1,5,5,5, 200); INSERT…
Read articleA common issue when setting up Reporting Services integration with SharePoint is that the SharePoint add-in is not installed properly although the setup program doesn't indicate any issues. More than likely, the culprit is that the person who installed the add-in is not SharePoint Web farm administrator and Site Collection administrator. As a first stop for troubleshooting SharePoint integration issues, you should examine the add-in log…
Read articleMicrosoft has released the Cumulative Update 2 build (build number 1779) for SQL Server 2008. The update is not publicly available as of now. It has to be released individually based on whether you are running into a bug fixed in the build and it is password-protected. Among other things, it fixes the freeze issue associated with opening SSAS projects in BIDS.
Read articleIssue: You author an SSRS report that connects to a cube. You want to create a calculated member that uses a report parameter. For example, the Selector calculated member in the following query returns 1 if a given employee has exceeded 1 million in sales for the dates specified by the user in the report parameter. WITH MEMBER [Measures].[Selector] AS SUM ( StrToSet(@DateCalendar), iif([Measures].[Reseller Sales…
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