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I have always been inspired by a particular quote from Arthur C Clarke - “The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible”. The more you think of it, the more you make sense out of it. If you decide in your mind that something is impossible, you will ne......
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As a BI consultant specializing in SSRS, I have had lots of frustrations and hard times because of Excel. Every now and then, I have some or other business user coming up to me and asking for some feature which is there in Excel but not in SSRS. If you have been following my blog, you would already ......
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<p align="justify"><font color="#000000" size="2">Christmas time is one of my most favourite times of the year – the time when you can just lay back, relax, enjoy some quality time with your family and catch up with your old friends. While this Christmas time has been a little hectic for me consider......
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Today morning, I was reading an old post on Clearing SSRS Query cache by Alex Whittles (blog | twitter). That is when I decided to try out something and opened up my most recent project to find some rdl.data files. Surprisingly, I did not find a single rdl.data file although I had more than 10 repor......
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<p align="justify"><font color="#000000" size="2">Over the short span of my career, I have seen many people get burnt out and change their careers from technology to some other field. It is easy to get disillusioned with a job that requires you to sit on a chair the entire day and "code" t......
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I am worse than a child when it comes to colours and no wonder, spend a lot of time on the aesthetics whenever I am preparing an Excel sheet or a PowerPoint presentation. For me, this is rather a way to indulge the child within me than to make it more presentable to the audience. The joy that you ge......
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Now this one was in the coming for quite some time. All of us who have tried to implement cell security would have had some or the other woes to relate with performance. At least for me, the MDX query which I had beautifully tuned to come out in 2 sec suddenly became an embarrassment in the form of ......
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Recently, I was asked to implement security on a set of sensitive measures, such as profit and all calculated measures on top of them as part of the cube development. It looked like a very straight requirement and I never thought I would have so many sleepless nights over it for the next 2 months. ......
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Sometime in January, visualization expert Stephen Few expanded on Tufte’s idea of Sparklines and came up with this new visualization called Bandlines. Bandlines use horizontal bands of color in the background of the plot area to display information abou...
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Sometime during the last month, I saw an image of an Archimedean Spiral and was wondering whether I could recreate the same in SSRS. The Archimedean Spiral is actually a scatter line chart (a combination of scatter chart and line chart). I have over 6+ ...
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