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Martin Cremer

Posted Wednesday, July 23, 2008 10:52 PM

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Posted Thursday, July 24, 2008 6:25 AM

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Wow Martin, This is a great article. Totals columns, 13 week averages, % change -- all of these have been a critical part of reporting that I felt matrix tables would be well suited for if one could only add extra columns. This really pushes our reporting capabilities ahead by light years!

Mark

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Posted Thursday, July 24, 2008 8:21 AM

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When do you think you'll have the SSAS article in a draft form?

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Posted Thursday, July 24, 2008 8:26 AM

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Really a clever way. I've been using the addition of an extra table with similar grouping as the matrix one but then I always lost the ability to export and also on sorting capability (as is that is pretty limited in a matrix report). Thanks.

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Posted Thursday, July 24, 2008 8:31 AM

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Another way to do this using more of the native function of the Matrix would be to create a grouping column, where one group value is tied to the Articles sold and another group value tied to the Target information.

Group 01 is the Articles sold.

Group 02 is the target.

The data set would look like:

grp Name Month #Sold
== ==== ===== ====
01 Franz 200801 10
01 Franz 200803 7
01 Franz 200804 12
02 Franz Target -20 (Trick:note negative Target value is need to make the "math" ok when sub totalling)

Then just set up totalling on your matrix report to provide sub totals per the group value.

Special Notes:
1) In order for the final total to come out correctly the Target data needs to go in as a negative number
2) You would have to have a special format option when displaying the "target" data to not show the negative
3) You would still need to use the techniques, described in the article, for proper sequencing and column headers and such on the final report.

Advantages:
- Your data set only has raw data in it, rather than mixing raw data and summary data.
- Much Simpler T-SQl statements
- Lets the matrix list do what it does best.

Regards All

Matteo

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Martin Cremer

Posted Thursday, July 24, 2008 8:34 AM

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Hello bteague,

I hope to have that article written within the next week.
But I do not know how long it takes for the article to be published.

Martin

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Posted Thursday, July 24, 2008 8:53 AM

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Great article ...

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Posted Thursday, July 24, 2008 9:11 AM

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Excellent. If it looks like you'll have something ready and the "posting/publishing" is delayed, can you e-mail something in the interim. :)

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Posted Thursday, July 24, 2008 9:28 AM

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This is a great article, and I must apologize -- this is the first time I went to rate an article, and I meant to give it 5 stars. Unfortunately my unfamiliarity with the process led to only crediting it with one star. Blush

If the editor could change that vote I would appreciate it. Sad

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Harit Gohel

Posted Thursday, July 24, 2008 10:46 AM

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Martin,

First of all Thank you for really good article with perfect example to show the functionality. I fully support your approch of stored functions/stored procedures to generate the result set with the calculation and just use basic functions of SSRS to display the data especially, as you wrote, while exporting report to excel.
Again it was a very good article....Keep it on.....:)

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