Yesterday, my buddy Amit Panchal and I were trying to get an x64 instance of SSRS joined to reporting farm, and had a bear of a time. Because of issues I won’t get into here, we were trying to initialize the server in the “classic” way – meaning we had exported our encryption key from one of the other nodes, copied it to the new machine and were trying to [ Read More ]
If you have taken the time to implement translations in your SSAS cube, it is comforting to know that the Analytic Grid can and will display your localized text. From what I can gather, we aren’t quite smart enough to simply read regional settings
A couple of days ago I needed to create a new DSV against a Teradata source. I found that the “lag” in the normally light-on-its feet DSV wizard was pretty bad - it took in the neighborhood of 1.5 minutes for the Add Related Tables function to ret
I saw an interesting thread today I thought I would pass along. In essence, one of my colleagues wanted to know if the twenty-ish queries behind his SSRS report would all fire at the same time, or sequentially. The answer is (of course, we’re Micr
