SSRS #75 – Use RunningValue() Function and VB Script to capture discrete dates
Drill-down report is a common design
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2014-11-14 (first published: 2014-11-11)
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MDX #44–How to find all the calculated measures
Calculated measures are visually identifiable
If you have access to a cube, it’s quite easy to find all the calculated measures.
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2014-11-13
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MDX #43–Find a MDX Calculation Script
Finding out MDX calculation scripts is a common task
A co-worker recently asked me what the calculation for a calculated measure...
2014-11-12
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Book Review: Why You Should Read Expert Cube Development With SSAS 2012 Cover to Cover
Expert Cube Development with SSAS 2012 Multidimensional Models was published earlier this year by Packt Publishing. It’s the second edition...
2014-06-15
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MDX #41–Remove employees with less than $100,000 sales
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2014-05-30
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SQL #54–Casting numbers with white spaces as Integer will fail
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2014-05-30
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DAX #2 – Installing AdventureWorks DW Tabular Model SQL Server 2012
OK, first thing first. We all know the famous Adventure Works multidimensional sample project. To learn the tubular mode/DAX, we...
2014-05-09 (first published: 2014-04-30)
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SSRS #74 – 2008 Cascading bug when you have a middle parameter
Some SSRS reports have a large number of parameters
I recently had a chance to help a co-worker to modify...
2014-05-09
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SQL #53 – Keyboard shortcut Alt + F1 works now in SSMS 2012
Keyboard shortcut Alt + F1 works now
SSMS has a rich set of keyboard shortcuts that works by default. But in SSMS...
2014-04-30
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DAX #1 – Learning DAX
I recently attended a virtual training of Tabular and Power Pivot for Developers taught by Kathy Vick at Pragmatic Works....
2014-04-25
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Question of the Day
Checking Identities
The DBCC CHECKIDENT command is used when working with identity values. I have a table with 10 rows in it that looks like this:
TravelLogID CityID StartDate EndDate 1 1 2025-01-11 2025-01-16 2 2 2025-01-11 2025-01-16 3 3 2025-01-11 2025-01-16 4 4 2025-01-11 2025-01-16 5 5 2025-01-11 2025-01-16 6 6 2025-01-11 2025-01-16 7 7 2025-01-11 2025-01-16 8 8 2025-01-11 2025-01-16 9 9 2025-01-11 2025-01-16 10 10 2025-01-11 2025-01-16The docs for DBCC CHECKIDENT say this if I run with only the table parameter: "If the current identity value for a table is less than the maximum identity value stored in the identity column, it is reset using the maximum value in the identity column. " I run this code:
DELETE dbo.TravelLog WHERE TravelLogID >= 9
GO
DBCC CHECKIDENT(TravelLog, RESEED)
GO
INSERT dbo.TravelLog
(
CityID,
StartDate,
EndDate
)
VALUES
(4, '2025-09-14', '2025-09-17')
GO
What is the identity value for the new row inserted by the insert statement above? See possible answers