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  • RE: ParallelPeriod Isue

    Okay, now I get what you are looking for. That is a little tricky, but it is doable as long as you have some additional information in your date...

  • RE: ParallelPeriod Isue

    For a typical year comparison at any level you would simply using the following:

    [MEASURES].[GC GSV Finance LY]

    AS (

    ParallelPeriod

    (

    ...

  • RE: Report Server Diagnostic Reports

    Here is how you can get at the RDL for the report in the Content column. Once you have done this you can query this information to look for...

  • RE: Report Server Diagnostic Reports

    Very nice article and great job on the reports. Wasn't sure if you were aware of it at all, but with the SSRS Samples on CodePlex there is an...

  • RE: how to install successfully business intelligence design studio 2005 on dev pc

    So you installed SQL Server 2005 Standard on your PC? Do you see that in your list of Services running on your PC? When you did the install...

  • RE: how to show data one level above the filter hierarchy

    Not sure how you have this setup or what tool you are using to return these results, but if you are just querying the database you could do something like...

  • RE: ssrs deployment issue

    Yeah, starting with SSRS 2008, SSRS is no longer leveraging and dependant on IIS. It leverages http.sys. You still access it the same way as you did before...

  • RE: PERFORMANCE POINT

    PerformancePoint Server (PPS) 2007 stopped being a standalone product back in April 2009 with the January 2009 announcement that Microsoft made last year (http://blogs.msdn.com/bi/archive/2009/01/23/microsoft-bi-strategy-update.aspx). Customers that have SharePoint 2007...

  • RE: Package in VS2008 does not execute as job

    You are using BIDS 2008 to create SSIS 2008 packages to deploy to a SQL Server 2005 SSIS server and that will not work. The only product in BIDS...

  • RE: When to use Analysis Services

    I wouldn't say that SSAS is an alternative to a relational data warehouse. SSAS compliments it and would be a natural progression. It does require a different skillset...

  • RE: SQL Server BI Checklist

    The typical basic steps would be:

    1) Gather Requirements

    2) Dimensional Modeling

    3) ETL

    4) OLAP Design

    5) Front-end BI Delivery

    With SSRS you are going to have to build your own drilldown functionality unless you...

  • RE: When to use Analysis Services

    Depending on how your data warehouse is setup this could really compliment what you have and provide a very robust analytical platform. SSAS provides a way to centralize all...

  • RE: Formatint numeric type in dimension

    You need to change the format of the value coming into SSAS, so you would do this either in a database view or in the data source view.

    Are you trying...

  • RE: Named Calculation or separate Dimension?

    You could also use a CASE statement and evaluate the PostalCode field like the following:

    CASE WHEN LEFT(postalcode,2) like '[A-Za-z][A-Za-z]'

    THEN LEFT(postalcode,2)

    WHEN LEFT(postalcode,1) like '[A-Za-z]'

    THEN LEFT(postalcode,1)

    ELSE NULL

    END

  • RE: Named Calculation or separate Dimension?

    If you have a FK relationship between the two tables then it sounds like you have what I would consider a snowflake design possibly. You can pull the table...

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