SSAS Reporting Action with Date Parameters
Reporting Actions in Analysis Services allows you to open a report in Reporting Services. Most of the time users want...
2014-01-22 (first published: 2014-01-20)
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SSAS – Using the Euro or Pound currency Symbol in a measure Format String
If you have a set of measures and some of them are US dollars, some are Euros, and some are...
2014-01-17 (first published: 2014-01-13)
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SSAS Dynamic KPI from a table
KPI’s (Key Performance Indicators) in Analysis Services are a great way to show visually if a measure is above or...
2014-01-09 (first published: 2014-01-06)
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SSRS Interactive Sorting a Matrix
Sorting a matrix report can be done interactively. To perform interactive sorting, your report you will need a cell to...
2013-12-30
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SSIS For Loop Skip Files
When running a For Each Loop through a set of files, sometimes you will have specific files that you do...
2013-12-30 (first published: 2013-12-23)
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Setting up Security on sub sites in SharePoint 2010
A lot of companies have several departments and want to limit the sub sites users can view. For example, the...
2013-12-20 (first published: 2013-12-16)
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SSAS – Setting Attributes as Properties for Excel
When a user is browsing your cube with excel they may not understand how to slice the data and end...
2013-12-09
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SSRS – Self Referencing Reports or Drill through to same report
When looking at a report and wanting to drill through to get more detail, we often create two reports for...
2013-12-04 (first published: 2013-12-02)
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Reverse or Mirrored Bar Chart in SSRS
There are some pretty charts out there and most of them can be done in Reporting Services. There is one...
2013-11-25
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SSIS Execute SQL error – No disconnected record set is available
If you get the error in SSIS that says:
…failed with the following error: “No disconnected record set is available for...
2013-11-18
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