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  • Blogging and Saving Money at the Same Time
    I enjoy blogging. I enjoy passing on the information that I have gathered over the years. I also enjoy doing this while watching television. Currently I subscribe to Directv, but that is all about to change. This blog is about blogging in general, but mor
    Author: briankmcdonald briankmcdonald     Date: 11/9/2010     Section: Blog
  • SSRS -- Optional Parameters
    I'm running SSRS 2008 R2, but I'm a total beginner. I've watched a bunch of Pragmatic Works webinars and done some reading. I am trying to figure out how to make OPTIONAL parameters in my reports. I found this blog with a suggestion for doing this in 2005
    Author: lduvall lduvall     Date: 7/18/2011     Section: Forum
  • SQL Server Reporting Services - URL Parameters
    To pass a report parameter through to another report via a new browser: On the Navigation tab for the report objects properties add the following javascript command to the Jump to URL expression box: ="javascript:void(window.open('http://SERVER NAME/Repor
    Author: domhorton domhorton     Date: 1/19/2011     Section: Blog
  • SQL Azure
    I recently received a Mail from Microsoft Associate to participate in the 50GB preview for SQL Azure (find my tweet here ) I've been doing quite a bit of poking around on it which resulted in me blogging my findings on it. One of the most fundamental chan
    Author: nitya nitya     Date: 5/2/2010     Section: Blog
  • Cost of Duplicate Elimination
    Hi, I am blogging after a long time now. By the way today's topic is about 'Duplicate Elimination' and why one should avoid it. One might be tempted to place DISTINCT after every SELECT, on the theory that it is harmless. In fact, is very expensive to eli
    Author: pratmicro_20 pratmicro_20     Date: 7/12/2010     Section: Blog
  • Pragmatic Works Foundation Class October 2011
    Hello to all that may read this. This is my first time blogging, so please bear with me. Actually, this is a homework assignment. I was chosen/invited to join the October 2011 Pragmatic Works Foundation Class. It's going to be an exciting week and I promi
    Author: SQLTiger SQLTiger     Date: 10/25/2011     Section: Blog
  • SSAS Dimension Properties : Misc and Source
    Previously I’ve blogged about both Basic dimension properties ( here ) and Advanced dimension properties ( here ), so today I’d like to finish off this initial set by blogging about the misc and source sections of the properties of an attribut
    Author: ChrisSchmidt ChrisSchmidt     Date: 3/4/2013     Section: Blog
  • Hey, >> PragmaticWorks authors / bloggers << -- a writing question for you
    Something that I admire about the Pragmatic Works employees that I read on here - you all seem to have very concise writing styles. Are you hired already having strong written communication skills? Do you have additional training for that? Do you "just" p
    Author: KeithHyer KeithHyer     Date: 10/26/2011     Section: Forum
  • MDX Puzzles: Encounters of the Fourth Kind - Answer
    Since this week is Thanksgiving and I was busy as mess on Friday, I figured I would wait to post the solution to last week's MDX puzzle until today and take a week off from blogging while I celebrate Thanksgiving with the family. To solve Encounters of th
    Author: DustinRyan DustinRyan     Date: 11/22/2010     Section: Blog
  • SSIS Component Development Resources
    I'm interested in ( maybe blogging ) developing SSIS components using C#. Has anyone else looked into doing this and if so, what good resources have you found regarding it? Here are a few that I have found and would welcome any additions. MSDN: http://msd
    Author: KeithHyer KeithHyer     Date: 8/16/2011     Section: Forum
  • Keep up with the good work...blogging
    I just wanted to thank you for all your wonderful posts, for today I was able to continue working on my assignments for SSRS and Service Analysis because of your wonderful "how-to" blogs. The "savior" blog for me today was: Help! I Can’t Connect to
    Author: nube07 nube07     Date: 12/25/2011     Section: Blog
  • How can we find the distinct count of all the Hierarchy and attribute members from all the dimensions.?
    Hello all, Firstly ,Happy New Year 2012 :) to all our BIDN’s Family and others too.!!! In order to start this year blogging, I would like to post another blog which might be helpful to the one who works in SSAS. Last time, I was just trying for some
    Author: Anil Anil     Date: 1/2/2012     Section: Blog
    tags : DMV
  • SSAS Compare, a cool tool for Microsoft Business Intelligence professionals.
    Hello BIDN Family, It’s been long time gap and I was really missing my blogging time part. Through this blog I would just want to share the new tool developed by the Red –Gate called SSAS Compare . which I think , SSAS Compare is one of the co
    Author: Anil Anil     Date: 6/12/2012     Section: Blog
    tags : SSAS Compare
  • Why I blog
    Knowing how to do something in the various parts of the SQL Server stack can be a challenge when first starting out.  Knowing when to do something is a step up from that challenge, and requires experience on top of knowledge.   Thankfully t
    Author: TomLannen TomLannen     Date: 1/7/2012     Section: Blog
  • My first anniversary on BIDN
    I have been introduced to the Business Intelligence concepts thanks to my manager way back in 2007. I have started working from DTS days and I have built a datawarehouse all by myself of which I was proud of. Then later on with the introduction of sql ser
    Author: indupriya indupriya     Date: 2/23/2011     Section: Blog
  • Foundation class by PragmaticWorks! Blog Post: #1
    My name is Mitchell Pearson and I'm currently in the Foundation class presented by PragmaticWorks. First of all I would like to thank Brian Knight and the team at PragmaticWorks for presenting this class. The class is very fast paced and covers a lot of m
    Author: MitchellPearson MitchellPearson     Date: 8/2/2012     Section: Blog
  • SQL Server Training
    Hello, It's my first time blogging and just wanted to introduce myself and briefly explain how wonderful the first day of training was. Our instructor Sherri and CEO Brian Night were very welcoming and informative about the foundative, career paths, and t
    Author: TJMF TJMF     Date: 10/24/2011     Section: Blog
  • PowerPivot?
    stirone, I am reviewing and starting to play around with PowerPivot. It is an Add-on to Excel 2010 and should not have any factor on changing the existing pivot table functionality. What it does is allows power users to pull data in from various sources w
    Author: bretupdegraff bretupdegraff     Date: 12/9/2009     Section: Forum
    tags : Excel
  • It Gave Me Permission
    I am new to the blogging world, point in fact this is my first blog, although not so new to the IT world. I attended a great webinar this morning hosted by Brian Knight from Pragmatic Works. The webinar was all about branding, www.pragmaticworks.com/resou
    Author: TonjaB TonjaB     Date: 2/23/2010     Section: Blog
  • calculation - not sure what to do
    With Member PRE as ([Measures].[Internet Sales Amount],parallelperiod([Date].[Calendar].[Calendar Year],1)),format_string="currency" select {[Measures].[Internet Sales Amount],pre} on 0,[Date].[Calendar].[Calendar Year].&[2007] on 1 from [Adventure Wo
    Author: gurucb gurucb     Date: 9/2/2011     Section: Forum
  • Thank You to the Community subtitled: The Power of Twitter
    As I begin my journey down the ol' blogging trail I wanted to make my inaugural post about something that has been a vital component of my personal and professional growth -- The SQL Community. Without the open nature of this great community I would not b
    Author: JeffRush JeffRush     Date: 7/21/2010     Section: Blog
  • Catching Up
    Hey there gang ! – It’s been a while since I’ve written and I apologize. It’s shameful I know. I just completed quite the first quarter, logging over 54,000 travel miles. I’m tired ! It is such an exciting time right now at Pragmatic Works. We are growing
    Author: AdamJorgensen AdamJorgensen     Date: 5/10/2010     Section: Blog
    tags : misc.
  • Life of a Developer :)
    Hey Guys Just wanted to share my experience here with all the blogging people on the web. It has been quite a fascinating journey of getting myself into the world of Development. Truly speaking, I never wanted to get into programming in early age of my sc
    Author: priti1desai priti1desai     Date: 12/16/2010     Section: Blog
  • The Great Pragmatic Works Task Factory Round Up
    Over the last month or so, I?ve been blogging about my companies (Pragmatic Works) cool suite of SSIS (SQL Server Integration Services) add in tools called Task Factory. I did this mostly to learn about the various components, and decided to video the who
    Author: arcanecode arcanecode     Date: 9/6/2011     Section: Blog
  • Two more analytical functions: PERCENTILE_CONT and PERCENTILE_DISC
    I’ve been blogging a lot lately about the new analytic functions introduced with SQL Server 2012. I have two more to talk about: PERCENTILE_DISC and PERCENTILE_CONT. Previously, I covered CUME_DIST and PERCENT_RANK . Those two functions give you a p
    Author: KathiKellenberger KathiKellenberger     Date: 12/11/2012     Section: Blog