Thx Brian.   He wont be updating.   I appreciate your response.   A sandbox is my next choice but i want to go down this path first.

...and I just pointed ssdt/ssrs to a 2016 tabular model and there is no assistance building dax.  Just mdx.  And nothing that looks like any improvement in 2016 when it...

I installed ssdt 2015 and went thru the steps one might follow to create a cube driven report over a 2012 tabular model.  I believe I am now simulating ssrs 2016...

Hi, I think now and then I'm guilty of these things.  What does "bump a post" mean?  I understand cross posting.

thx ssc guru.  I wont be able to install dev 2016 for quite a while because of the OS prereqs.  I'm on W7 now.  However,  I am taking steps to...

Thx Steve and pietlinden.  I already hooked power bi (pbi) up to the model directly and saw positive results both visually and performance wise.  I'm not a big fan of...

Thx Steve.  All contributions are welcome.  Below is a picture of the star.  I am not committed to the star, tabular, ssrs, power bi, excel, tableau, column store index, multidimensional etc.   I'm...

repairing (without uninstall) just vs2010 from the installer didnt do the trick. Back to the drawing board.

yes, unless I'm missing something. It seems like the pipes (if they really are delimeters) are just part of one big data "column" to your process.

I've used...

can you store the proc names in a table, direct them with exec and params via appropriate query to an ado data set, loop thru the ado data set building...

its looking more and more to me like vs's list of "add in/macros security" paths isnt turning up the necessary xml file where the key to finding system.data (framework's...

sure.

When indicating conn mgr is new in edit mode on destination component in data flow, "the new connection manager could not be created. Additional Information: The DbProviderFactories...