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I'm attending a session about SQL Server Reporting Services 2008 where I've seen one of the mostly wanted missing features of previous versions of Reporting Services: it is the Rich TextBox component, that can embed placeholders to compose text with data Read more
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With a strange move, today Microsoft released Katmai SQL Server 2008 CTP June without making a single word about this during the keynote of Bob Muglia. Why they waited the TechEd to make this announcement without highlighting the CTP availablility during Read more
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I just attended the session named "Applied Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services" held by of Teo Lachev . Teo developed a complex solution that allow an end user to build its own reports with financial data, using Reporting Services as a back-end Read more
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Today I wrote a procedure to drop all views from a schema (and the schema itself) in SQL Server 2005. I use views to expose objects to SSAS DSV and it's useful having a cleanup code. Here's the script: DropSchema drop all the views and the schema itself, Read more
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The short answer is yes. The long answer is that Microsoft should still improve in many ways. I thought about this many times before writing this post, because I want to be constructive and I hope that my words will not be misunderstood. My consideration Read more
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BIDS Helper is an addin for Visual Studio that really improves productivity developing solutions for Analysis Services. Today I tested it and looking for its feature I encountered a page describing the "Show Extra Properties" feature... and it links a Read more
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I and Alberto have posted a suggestion on Microsoft Connect to improve aggregation wizard behavior in a future version of SQL Server. The idea is to give an aggregation usage priority to dimension attributes for each cube or measure group. If you find Read more
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David Shroyer published an interesting paper about a Different Approach to Implementing Time Calculations in SSAS . It is something I would have found the time to write since Analysis Services 2000 (I have being using a similar approach since then) and Read more
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During the Microsoft Business Intelligence Conference 2007 we distributed a free printed copy of The Many-to-Many Revolution to attendees who visited our booth. Now the same book can be ordered on Lulu.com paying only the print and shipping costs (we Read more
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The Microsoft Business Intelligence Conference 2007 has been a good conference. Not very good, probably as a result of its success. Microsoft wanted to send the message "we are serious in the BI market" with this event. From my perception, half of attendees Read more