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William E. Pearson III posted on November 11, 2010 07:27
BI Architect Bill Pearson continues an extended examination of parameterization within Analysis Services reports. In this, Part 3 of the article, we continue to get hands-on practice creating a parameter within the graphical user interface, and then examine the construction that Reporting Services 2005/ 2008 / 2008 R2 performs behind the scenes.
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William E. Pearson III posted on November 07, 2010 19:36
BI Architect Bill Pearson continues an extended examination of parameterization within Analysis Services reports. In this, Part 2 of the article, we continue to get hands-on practice creating a parameter within the graphical user interface, and then examine the construction that Reporting Services 2005/ 2008 / 2008 R2 performs behind the scenes.
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Javier Guillen posted on September 07, 2010 14:50
PowerPivot and DAX are a powerful technologies, but there is still a good amount of work that can be done with traditional cube functions. In its current version, PowerPivot lacks the concept of dimension hierarchies; however very customized Excel reports that leverage cube hierarchies can still be built using MDX enabled cube functions. This approach goes beyond the limiting nature of traditional pivot tables by enabling power users to transverse dimensions using custom formulas that are a mix of MDX with traditional Excel functionality.
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William E. Pearson III posted on July 05, 2010 20:10
Join BI Architect Bill Pearson as he introduces Attribute Discretization into his extended examination of the dimensional model within the integrated Microsoft Business Intelligence solution.
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William E. Pearson III posted on May 12, 2010 10:58
Business Intelligence Architect Bill Pearson launches a new subseries surrounding components of the SQL Server Analysis Services 2008 / 2008 R2 dimensional model. In this two-part article, we introduce dimensions, and then focus upon property settings for Database Dimensions.
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William E. Pearson III posted on April 30, 2010 07:09
If you encounter the error “Could not find the Database Engine startup handle” when attempting to install SQL Server 2008 R2, the cause may not lie with SQL Server, but with WinZip. This document describes issues I encountered in attempts to install SQL Server 2008 R2 on a Windows 7 machine, and my conclusion that the issue lay with flawed setup files, as extracted from the downloaded SQL Server 2008 R2 Developer .iso file by the WinZip extraction utility.
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