Showing a 100% Progress Gauge in Power View
What I’m going to show you is not rocket science. This one gets filed under the category of “well, duh. …
Category: SQL Syndication
DAX: Returning the Nth Selected Value in a Slicer
A client came to me with a challenge this week that, although simple in concept, posed an interesting challenge that…
We’ve Got The Power: “Power BI”, New Microsoft BI Suite Announced
Power BI: a new suite of Business Intelligence tools Over the past few months, teams at Microsoft have made several…
BI Industry, Microsoft BI Platform, MVP Community, SolidQ, SQL Server Pro Magazine, SQL Syndication, SQLServerPedia, SSRS Administration, SSRS Design
SQL Server Pro Article: Custom Programming to Enhance SSRS Reports
I’m very excited to see my first feature article published in SQL Server Pro Magazine titled Custom Programming to Enhance…
Book Review: Instant Creating Data Models with PowerPivot How-to
I recently had the opportunity to review a pre-published copy of the “Instant” series book “Creating Data Models with PowerPivot…
Time to Complete the 2013 BI Survey
It’s that time of year again… end of the school year, graduation, Fathers’ Day and of course; time to take…
BI Industry, Microsoft BI Platform, MVP Community, PowerPivot, SolidQ, SQL Server, SQL Syndication, SQLServerPedia, SSAS Administration, SSAS Design, Tabular Models
Taking the Tabular Journey
A Getting-Started and Survival Guide for planning, designing and building Tabular Semantic Models with Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services.…
Mastering Reporting Services Expressions, March 26
As part of SQL Server Pro eLearning series, I’ll be presenting three 75 minute sessions on March 26th on using…
BI Industry, Microsoft BI Platform, SolidQ, SQL Syndication, SQLServerPedia, SSAS Design, SSRS Design, Tabular Models
Visual Studio 2012/SSDT Addition for BI Project Version Compatibility & Themes
We can now use Visual Studio 2012 to create and edit SQL Server BI projects! Woo Hoo. In the past,…
BI Industry, Microsoft BI Platform, MVP Community, PASS, SolidQ, SQL Saturday, SQL Server, SQL Syndication, SQLServerPedia
SQL Server Community World Tour with GeoFlow
When I started playing with GeoFlow, I just had to find a way to do something interesting with it. This…
BI Industry, Microsoft BI Platform, MVP Community, PASS, SQL Server, SQL Syndication, SQLServerPedia
Speaking at the Business Analytics Conference, April 1-12 in Chicago
The email message earlier today said “Please note that the official schedule will be released tomorrow, February 6th, so please…
Database Lifecycle Management for Azure SQL Database
DLM 1.0 Released Today When “SQL Azure” first became available a couple of years ago, I played with it, created…
BI Industry, Microsoft BI Platform, SolidQ, SQL Server, SQL Syndication, SSRS Administration, SSRS Design
Reporting Services 2012 BI Training
Just wanted to get the word out that our SSRS 2012 training course is available. Are you looking for expert…
Is Self-service BI Threatening IT Professionals’ Livelihoods?
(this is another follow-up to Chris Webb’s post on “Why Corporate BI and Self-Service BI Are Both Necessary”) There is…
Debugging Parameter Dependencies in Reporting Services
Creating a report with two datasets that reference the same pair of parameters, I’m seeing the following error: The Value…