DQ & MDM Book Available to Download

If you’re looking for a resource on the Data Quality and Master Data Management features in SQL Server 2008 R2,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...