Today is my one year anniversary of blogging! If you would have told me 14 months ago that I would be writing a technical blog, I would have looked at you like you had two heads! It has gone very well and I have learned/reinforced some valuable skills such as TESTING/TESTING/TESTING, writing comprehensive documentation, and keeping my problem solving skills honed. See below for some stats from the previous year.
Parameterize a SSRS report using SSAS Data.
In a previous posting we created our first SSRS report pulling from our SSAS cube data. It ran fine, but it brought back all of the data in the database. This posting will show you how to add a parameter so only selected information is brought back. You may think of this like a WHERE clause in your SQL statements.
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Create your first SSRS report using wizard
In previous postings we have created a data warehouse, created a SSAS cube, now we are going to write a report using SQL Server Reporting Services to create a report against the cube data that we created.
Adding Time Series Dimension to your SSAS Cube
In the last article, we connected Excel to our SSAS Cube, and did some pivot table analysis. Now we are going to increase our analysis ability by adding a date dimension so the data can be further broken down.
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Connecting Excel to Sql Server Analysis Services (SSAS)
Last week we created a cube using SSAS. Now I am going to show you how your end users will connect to it using Excel and how they can use the data in a meaningful way while using their favorite tool (Excel).
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Your first BI SSAS Cube
Today we are going to create a very simple SSAS cube to show some of the useful things that you can do with Sql Server Analysis Services. In production or a real world scenario, you would do much more planning and analysis, but this article will show you the steps that you will need to complete. This is really the tip of the iceberg of things that you can accomplish with SSAS, so feel free to explore.
Load multiple files with SSIS Foreach Loop Container
You just finished your SSIS project where you needed to load a CSV file into a Sql Server database table, but now you just found out that multiple files with the same data will now need to be loaded. Using the Foreach Loop Container in SSIS makes this relatively easy.
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