You might want to look up the DATENAME() function for the month names and the DATEPART() function for the quarters. Or you might want to use a calendar table...

This is simply no valid reason to read stored passwords. Even if it were possible, providing the capability to do so would create a huge security risk.

Drew

Unlike some MS error messages, this error is fairly self-explanatory. One of your subqueries is returning multiple values and that is not allowed. Specifically, the following subquery is...

Use tally tables to count instead of rCTEs. Jeff has a good article about this: Hidden RBAR: Counting with Recursive CTE's[/url]

Drew

If you want to display the results of the CASE expression and use it in a GROUP BY, you can use a CROSS APPLY to define and alias the CASE...

UNPIVOT will not work for your query, because it will only produce one unpivoted column per statement, and you need three. You can use a CROSS APPLY to make...

Name Queries are usually defined against the OLTP source that the OLAP cube is built on. The named query will use T-SQL, but the cube will use MDX. ...

Use a CTE or derived table.

The CROSS APPLY isn't going to give you what you expect anyhow--which is probably why MS put in that error message in the first place....

First, there is a separate forum for Analysis Services. You are more likely to get an answer to your question there.

The cube browser in BIDS (Visual Studio) is a...

Consider SSRS for your reports. It has built-in functionality to automatically handle these types of reports.

Drew

dwain.c (5/29/2012)

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Datetime functions do have their issues though, like the following:

SELECT DATEADD(month, 1, '2012-02-29')

Depending on your point of view, the results this returns looks wrong, or maybe not. I...

Actually I realized that my FOR XML AUTO code didn't have the Employees node. Here is corrected code.

FOR XML AUTO

SELECT Company.Company_ID, Company.Company_Name, Employees.Placeholder, Employee.Employee_ID, Employee_Name

FROM Companies AS Company

CROSS APPLY...

Part of the problem is that you are using FOR XML AUTO. It is usually much easier to construct the necessary XML structure using FOR XML PATH with nested...

A brief overview.

In SSIS, create an ADO recordset with the managers and then use a FOR EACH ADO enumerator container to produce the Excel file for each manager. The...

Jeff Moden (5/25/2012)

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Jeff Moden (5/10/2012)

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Didn't look to see if it was mentioned before but one sure fire way to increase the performance here would be to...