PASS Business Analytics Conference Sneak Peek
The PASS Business Analytics Conference (BAC) will be in San Jose, CA on May 7-9. You can get a jump…
Creating Multi-column Labels in Reporting Services
A reader recently asked for some help creating a “4-up” sheet of labels. She referred to one of the recipes…
Superbowl 2014
They say that a picture is worth a thousand words. This one is worth at least $3,000 or the cost…
Power BI Contest
Be sure to get your vote in the for the Microsoft Power BI Contest. 67 entries were submitted by the…
A Conference Call in real Life
When a colleague sent this to me last week, my first impulse was to SPAM it by email to just…
PASS Business Analytics Conference Discount by January 18
Fellow Oregon SQL members and blog readers Are you considering attending the second annual PASS Business Analytics Conference in San…
Mastering Reporting Services Expressions – SQL Server Pro eLearning Series
I will be presenting a series of three online sessions for the SQL Server Pro Magazine eLearning series titled “Mastering…
Analysis Services 2012 Cookbook Published
I’m please to inform you that our new Analysis Services 2012 book is now available for download and purchase. The…
Have a Very Spatial Holiday
When I was a kid, we would cut Christmas trees and snowflakes out of construction paper and tape them to…
Reporting Services & MDX Queries – Video Tutorials
Working with multiple clients lately, mentoring report development on SSAS (mostly Tabular and some multidimensional), this prompted me to create…
The Best Places to Trick or Treat Using Power Map
The US just celebrated Halloween where costumed children walk door-to-door collecting candy from strangers, or perhaps from familiar neighbors. My…
Notes from PASS 2013
It’s Wednesday morning, October 16, and Quentin Clark, Vice President of Data Platform, is on stage here at the PASS…
Importance of Color and Shape in Design
“Studies show that 33% of color blind workers have less energy at work during flu season” I have…
Images, charts, indicators and sparklines in a tablix stretch and degrade report performance
This fact is probably not documented very well but this is an important factor in SSRS visual report design… The…
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. …