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It is a normal phenomenon that human beings take most of the simple things for granted. Take this case, one of my blog readers sent me a mail asking how to display the total on top of a stacked chart in SSRS. The first time I read it, I was almost going to blurt - just enable some property to displa......
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Recently, I was asked to design a set of reports for a dashboard in SQL Server 2008 which would all have the same report parameters passed to them. Also, the users wanted to switch between the reports frequently and hence needed a navigation panel on the left hand side preferably. The moment I heard......
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In one of my projects, I was asked to implement a drillthrough report, which had a depth of around 6 pages. After the development, I was sitting with the user who was testing the reports and I noticed that the user was frequently shifting between the sixth and the third report to change the values. ......
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To be frank, I was extremely happy when I got to work on SSRS 2008. The 2008 version has changed so much for the better when you compare to the 2005 version, be it on terms of aesthetics or developer friendliness, you just name it. Moreover, I am the sort of person who hates to say NO t......
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Recently, Bill Jelen aka Mr Excel came up with a podcast that showcased a visualization that he termed as the “100% Visualization”. I have never seen this visualization before and I am not sure whether Stephen Few would approve of it. But I found the co...
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This post is a continuation of the Row Selection Using Slicers in PowerPivot – Part 1 (so it might be a good idea to read that post before this). In our last post, we discussed the basic solution pattern for row selection using slicers in PowerPivot. In...
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A couple of months back, I had written a post on ‘Measure selection using Slicers in PowerPivot’ and this turned out to be one of my most popular ones in the PowerPivot / DAX category. It was just a matter of time before someone asked how to do the same...
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Today is Black Friday here in the US and I don’t have time to write a regular post (as I am scourging for deals online and planning to get out for shopping as soon as the insane lines outside the stores dwindle in numbers). So this is just going to be a...
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Was it fun? Oh yeah, it was. Was it perfect? Hmm, maybe not. But was it awesome? Definitely yes! Let me tell you, it was an amazing experience being a part of the whole process. SQL Saturday Charlotte was my 9th SQL Saturday of this year, but there was ...
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All right, I know most of you Microsoft BI fans would be gushing over the new announcements made in PASS Summit 2011 last week. Now onwards, Project Crescent will be officially known as Power View, SQL Server Denali as SQL Server 2012, Juneau as SQL Server Data Tools and finally, we have a mobile BI......
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