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If you’re looking for a resource on the Data Quality and Master Data Management features in SQL Server 2008 R2,...
2011-06-01
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Let’s Get Visual – The Art of Report Design
Paul Turley
Mentor, SolidQ
This article is based on my session at TechEd on May 18th, 2011
Report styles vary depending on the...
2011-05-23
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Correcting Image Distortion in PDF Reports
I’ve seen a few cases where reports exported or rendered to PDF have distorted charts and images. We’ve played with...
2011-05-05
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Designing Reports with Custom MDX Queries – part 2
…continued from part 1:
Building a Report
For the remainder of this article, I will demonstrate query and report design techniques by...
2011-05-04
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Designing Reports with Custom MDX Queries – part 3
Start at part 1
…continued from part 2:
Handling Parameters
When an MDX query is created using the graphic query designer, parameters can...
2011-05-04
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Gartner BI Magic Quadrant 2011
It’s often true that “a picture is worth a thousands words” but sometimes a picture can be such an effectively...
2011-04-23
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Designing Reports with Custom MDX Queries – part 1
This article is the first in a three-part series
On the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) forum for Reporting Services and other...
2011-03-27
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Take-aways from the 2011 Microsoft MVP Summit
Every year, Microsoft brings a couple thousand specialists from every corner of the globe together for a few days to...
2011-03-07
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StreamInsight: A new way to think about analyzing data
Last night’s Oregon SQL user
group meeting was very enlightening. Mark Simms form the SQLCAT team came
down from Redmond to talk...
2011-02-17
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Can I Add Controls to a Reporting Services Report?
I see this question on the forums all the time and thought it was worth a repost here.
Just this week,...
2011-02-14
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Question of the Day
The Empty Aggregate
I have this table in a SQL Server 2025 database:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[CustomerOrder] ( [OrderID] [int] NULL, [CustomerID] [int] NULL, [total] [money] NULL ) ON [PRIMARY] GOWhat is returned from this code? (answers are for the sum and then the count)
SELECT SUM(total) AS sum,
COUNT(total) AS count
FROM dbo.CustomerOrder;
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