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When working with users who are browsing a cube using Excel 2010, a common requirement that I find is that the users want to create tabular or grid based reports. E.g. “I have a list of currencies, I want to display the currency code in an adjacent column...
Here's another quick tip when creating data models for use with Power View - Default Field Sets can be created in both Tabular SSAS and PowerPivot that give the user a shortcut for automatically adding multiple fields to a report. As an example, here's...
Power View includes several ways to create visualisations with images, ranging from a simple table, to the scrollable tile visualisation. In this post I’m going to explain a bit about the tile visualisation, showing how it can be used in Power View, before...
Master Data Services Collections are probably not the first feature that come to mind when you think of the MDS product. The hierarchies and member grids tend to be the core functionality, but as this post will hopefully show, MDS Collections are useful...
This is just a quick post to announce a range of SQL Server training courses, organised (and in some cases delivered) by Chris Webb . To start off there’s a SQL Server course delivered by Christian Bolton in December, followed by an Analysis Services...
As you may have already seen, Packt have released a new MDX book, namely MDX with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Analysis Services Cookbook by Tomislav Piasevoli. The book is written as cookbook, meaning that you can choose the individual ‘recipes’ that...
One question that I get asked from time to time is how to add a calculated field to an Excel Pivot Table that’s connected to an Analysis Services cube. I’ve been aware of a workaround to do this for a while, but a quick Bing :-) revealed that the common...
There was a comment on my last blog post by Peter Eb asking about whether Reporting Services 2008 R2 knows how to render SSAS KPIs automatically. The short answer is that it doesn't unfortunately, but there are only a few steps needed to get it working...
Although I didn't mention it, the inspiration for my last post was the excellent MDX Solutions 2nd Edition . Whilst flicking through the book a while back, I though it would be interesting to see how DAX and PowerPivot could handle the so called 'Common...
One of the often required calculations for users in reports is to be able to calculate a point-in-time closing balance, which is especially relevant when dealing with stock levels or financial data. In the Analysis Services world, at least in the Enterprise...
Interesting to see yesterday that XLCubed have released version 5 of their popular OLAP reporting tool. As I've mentioned before , I've always found XLCubed to be very powerful and easy to use, and therefore, in my opinion, it's definitely...
As Chris Webb has already blogged, the Analysis Services 2008 Performance Guide has now been released. Like the 2005 version, the 2008 guide contains a wealth of information and is a must read if you are trying to tune either query or processing performance...
One of the great features of PEL is that you can choose either a SQL or MDX implementation for your rules, depending on what you want to achieve. Whilst the MDX rules are much less restrictive than the SQL rules, they can sometimes run slower, depending...
Microsoft have just released Cumulative Update 8 for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2. Amongst the changes are a few fixes for small problems in Analysis Services, such as: Infinite recursion occurs in the CalculationPassValue function in SQL Server 2005...
XLCubed Version 4 was recently released, adding support for increased data visualisation via MicroCharts, as well as enhanced web publishing. I've been using XLCubed since version 1 and have always found it both powerful and easy to use. All the standard...
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