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This fact is probably not documented very well but this is an important factor in SSRS visual report design… The use of rectangles is very much a core part of Reporting Services report design and a difference in behavior is expected. Cells in a tablix will grow vertically to accommodate… Read more
What I’m going to show you is not rocket science. This one gets filed under the category of “well, duh. That was easy …now that I see how to do it.” Power View sets the maximum value for a chart series based on the maximum unfiltered axis value; pretty simple… Read more
A client came to me with a challenge this week that, although simple in concept, posed an interesting challenge that I hadn’t solved before using a tabular model and DAX. She had cost information for several hospitals in a PowerPivot model. Using an Excel pivot table published to a SharePoint… Read more
Power BI: a new suite of Business Intelligence tools Over the past few months, teams at Microsoft have made several new Business Intelligence tools available for preview; some only privately and some to the public. The entire suite will soon be available for either public preview or release under the… Read more
I’m very excited to see my first feature article published in SQL Server Pro Magazine titled Custom Programming to Enhance SSRS Reports; How to write a custom assembly and use it to build a dynamic report dataset. The article was posted online in April and featured in the July printed… Read more
I recently had the opportunity to review a pre-published copy of the “Instant” series book “Creating Data Models with PowerPivot How-to” by Leo Taehyung Lee, published by Packt Publishing. This is a short, concise book; only 46 pages long. Quite honestly, if I had picked up this book for myself,… Read more
It’s that time of year again… end of the school year, graduation, Fathers’ Day and of course; time to take the annual BI Survey! The survey is an annual report conducted by Business Application Research Center (BARC), an independent software industry analyst, comparing the industry BI tools rated by thousands… Read more
A Getting-Started and Survival Guide for planning, designing and building Tabular Semantic Models with Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services. by Paul Turley This post will be unique in that it will be a living document that will be updated and expanded over time. I will also post-as-I-go on the… Read more
As part of SQL Server Pro eLearning series, I’ll be presenting three 75 minute sessions on March 26th on using Expressions to enhance report capabilities. The sessions are online with live chat from 11:00 to 4:30 Eastern Time. Register today to get in on the early-bird discount. the cost for… Read more
We can now use Visual Studio 2012 to create and edit SQL Server BI projects! Woo Hoo. In the past, if you wanted to develop and maintain BI projects in the same development environment as other Visual Studio projects, you had to install multiple versions of Visual Studio. This may… Read more
When I started playing with GeoFlow, I just had to find a way to do something interesting with it. This is a short world tour with visits to a few SQL Server community members and leaders around the globe talking about their SQL Server communities. GeoFlow is a new BI… Read more
The email message earlier today said “Please note that the official schedule will be released tomorrow, February 6th, so please do not share your schedule until that time.” Well, what does that mean, exactly? It means that it’s midnight right now and time to tell the world…. We are going… Read more
DLM 1.0 Released Today When “SQL Azure” first became available a couple of years ago, I played with it, created a few databases and then quickly left it behind but in the last few months I’ve found some really good uses for “Microsoft Windows Azure SQL Database”. I just wish… Read more
Just wanted to get the word out that our SSRS 2012 training course is available. Are you looking for expert training on SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services? SolidQ now offers a SSRS training course with focus on designing report solutions for Business Intelligence and SharePoint integration. Not using SharePoint? Private… Read more
(this is another follow-up to Chris Webb’s post on “Why Corporate BI and Self-Service BI Are Both Necessary”) There is little doubt that the movement toward self-service BI is going to change the climate for some IT professional who specialize in BI – but the question is “how?” and “how… Read more
Creating a report with two datasets that reference the same pair of parameters, I’m seeing the following error: The Value expression for the query parameter ‘DatesYear’ contains an error: The expression references the parameter ‘DatesYear’, which does not exist in the Parameters collection. Letters in the names of parameters must… Read more
There has been an active discussion thread on Chris Webb’s blog about the similarities & differences between various Microsoft BI & reporting tools. This is becoming a very popular topic and I thought I’d post my reply to that thread here. I encourage you to read the entire post on… Read more
I’m impressed with the current generation of semantic modeling technology from Microsoft. I’ve had the opportunity to use both PowerPivot and SSAS Tabular Models on a handful of client projects and have had very good results so far. The xVelocity in-memory aggregation and data compression engine seems to be everything… Read more
I had a really good experience presenting a session at the SQL Saturday BI Edition in Dallas this weekend about Power View and PowerPivot. I’ve posted the presentation online and it’s ready for viewing here: Power View and PowerPivot – High-octane Self-service Reporting. (this presentation is the shell slide for… Read more
(article published on the MVP Award Program Blog) I really enjoy this topic. One of the reasons, I suppose, it’s such a hot topic is that a lot of people believe that there is a perfect ad hoc reporting solution out there, just barely beyond the current set of capabilities… Read more
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