For links to SQL Server samples on CodePlex click here
The event on September 17, 2011 in Kalamazoo was a great
success!
Look for a 2012 event near you.
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Microsoft's SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence resources |
Webcasts, Demos, Guided Tours, and other resources. |
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Analysis Services links
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Also: OLAP & Data Mining links |
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MSDN Creating a Data Warehouse |
MSDN SQL Server Developer Center. Includes the following subtopics:
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MSDN: Introduction to Cubes (SQL 2005) |
Nice introduction and sample cube diagram.
Defines Facts, Measures, Dimensions, Aggregates, Hierarchies, and more.
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SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services Guided Tours |
From www.Microsoft.com/sql, three presentations:
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A TechNet resource. Also applies to SQL 2008. I thought this gave insight into various backup strategies. |
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Using Analysis Services data in Excel Services part 1 - Preparing the AD for Kerberos |
A SharePoint blog by Ton Stegeman |
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Reporting Options for Analysis Services Cubes: MS Excel 2003 and More |
A Databasejournal.com article, relates to SQL 2000. |
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An MSDN reference. I wish there was something like this for SQL 2005 & 2008! |
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A link from Mosha Pasumanskey's website. |
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A Microsoft resource. |
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SQL Mag Instant Doc #99908, by William Sheldon. |
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A whitepaper by T.K. Anand. |
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Use of the "MembersWithData" property of an Attribute in SSAS and the "NonLeafMembersHidden" value. |
This is part 1 of a series from Bryan C. Smith at Hitachi Consulting (as of July 2007). Make sure you read part 2 which finishes the discussion. |
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Addendum
Introduction to Microsoft Courses 2791A and 6234A, |
A PowerPoint presentation (saved as a web page) that I created.
Drat, neither PowerPoint 2007 nor 2010 can save .mht files any more. |
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Lessons Learned: Deploying ProClarity 6.3 on SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services |
An interesting article from the Microsoft Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS) Business Intelligence team in the UK. |
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Links to articles and tutorial webcasts. |
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A Microsoft resource listing all the dialog boxes in BIDS on behalf of SSAS. Just in case you weren't already sure that Analysis Services and Cube design are a handful. |
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XMLForAnalysis website |
Brief reference. |
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Microsoft's XML for Analysis (XMLA) Reference |
An MSDN reference. |
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SQLMag (October 2007) by Teo Lachev, Instant Doc #96763 (and 95998). His blog is found at Prologika. |
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From Artis Consulting by Greg Galloway. Interesting case study. |
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Kimball University: The 10 Essential Rules of Dimensional Modeling |
From the IntelligentEnterprise website. |
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How To Enable User-Defined Hierarchies in SQL Server Analysis Services |
Excellent article by Ray Barley at MSSQLTips.com regarding Cube design. |
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Articles by Craig Utley (SQLMag) Analysis Services
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by Craig Utley, who operates LearnMicrosoftBI.com, which has quite a number of [free] BI related video presentations. |
| Sins of SQL: The Time Table | A SQLServerCentral.com reference providing an alternate suggestion on how to create a Time Dimension table, by Steve Gray. |
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Handling Weeks that Overlap Years in a Date Dimension in a SQL Server Data Warehouse |
By Ray Barley at MSSQLTips.com. |
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A SQLServerCentral article by Adam Jorgensen. |
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Introduction to Cube Storage |
By William Pearson, at the DatabaseJournal website, September 2009. |
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By Shahfaisal Muhammed at SQLServerCentral.com. I thought this was an excellent look at partitioning, thorough, and with screenshots! |
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Linked Objects and the Linked Object Wizard (LOW) topics
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MSDN and TechNet resources. |
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Just a little reference that I made. |
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Introducing the SQL Server 'MDX in Analysis Services' Series |
A web series by William Pearson, begun in December 2002, which is SQL Server 2000 oriented, found at www.DatabaseJournal.com. |
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The Unpopular
SELECT Statement |
A SQLServerCentral.com article by Vincent Rainardi, complete with a restorable cube and other resources to help someone get started with MDX. |
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An app for evaluating MDX queries and expressions written by Mosha Pasumanskey. |
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From SQLBits.com by Ashwani Roy; a 218MB Windows Media file; download PowerPoint slides available. |
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MSDN Webcast: Creating Analytical Multidimensional Expression (MDX) Queries (Level 200) |
You can download and view offline this 64 minute presentation. |
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Data Mining & DMX |
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Data Mining website section of Microsoft's SQL Server 2005 website |
Don't forget to spy the Data Mining Datasheet. |
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SQLServer Data Mining (SQLServerDataMining.com) |
Resources website. Quite the resumé of contributors! |
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Microsoft Download, available 12/2005. |
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Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Data Mining Add-ins for Microsoft Office 2007 |
Microsoft Download, available 8/6/2008 |
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An outstanding SQLShare.com (formerly JumpStartTV) multimedia presentation. |
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An outstanding SQLShare.com (formerly JumpStartTV) multimedia presentation. |
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Using the Excel Add-in for SQL Server Analysis Services (Excel 2002 & 2003) |
From the Microsoft Office website. |
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www.SQLServerDataMining.com website. |
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An Microsoft TechNet reference. |
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From Visual Studio Magazine by, John Charles Olamendy Turruellas. |
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Using SQL Server Data
Mining Add-Ins for Office 2007 to Predict Database Growth Trends - Part 1 Using SQL Server Data Mining Add-Ins for Office 2007 to Predict Database Growth Trends - Part 2 |
By Kun Lee at MSSQLTips.com. |
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Data Mining Model Viewers video. |
From SQLServerCentral.com by Brian Knight. Really nifty. |
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KDNuggets website |
"Data Mining Community's Best Resource". |
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DataMiningLab website Check out the "Top Ten Data Mining Mistakes" YouTube video from Dr. John Elder bookmarked on the home page. It's about five minutes long. |
"Data Mining Community's Best Resource". |
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A Newsweek article on the success of NetFlix, partly because of their data mining usage. |
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From the Kimball Group. Don't forget to see my library books. This book has a dedicated support website. Check out the tools page, which, among other things, has a link to a date dimension tool kit. |
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Michelle Poolet's series of SQLMag articles on Data Warehousing
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Integration Services links |
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Various Control Flow Tasks |
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A blog post from Matt Masson of Microsoft's SSIS Team. |
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Working with Precedence Constraints in SQL Server Integration Services |
A Simple-Talk post by Robert Sheldon. |
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Sending scheduled SQL query results via HTML e-mail using SSIS |
A SQLServerCentral article by Paul Clancy, 2/20/09. |
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Using Analysis Services Processing Task & Analysis Services Execute DDL Task in SSIS |
By Ashish Kumar Mehta at SQLServerPerformance.com. |
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The intro article (Part 1) of a ten part series on the SQL 2008 SSIS Data Profiling Task
And here's another
article on the Data Profiling Task |
by MVP "SSIS Junkie" Jamie
Thomson at EMC.
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A description of the BULK INSERT Task, and its usage. |
Found at the SQLYoga blog, by Tejas Shah. It includes screen captures, which I always like. |
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Containers |
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An Example of Using the For Each Loop Container to Perform File System Tasks |
By Rafael Salas. |
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From SQLServerCentral.com by Paul Clancy. |
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From Simple-Talk.com by Robert Sheldon. |
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From SQLIS.com by Darren Green. |
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From BIDN.com by Tom Lannen. This is actually Part II of a series. |
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How To Get the List of Files from an FTP Server in SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) 2005 |
From MSSQLTips.com by Ray Barley. Involves the use of the FTP Taks, variables, and the Script Task. |
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Event Handlers |
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From DatabaseJournal.com by Marcin Policht. |
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A blogpost on the some of the weirdnesses of Event Handlers. |
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A blog post by Jamie Thomson, which introduces this YouTube video. |
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A blog post by Jamie Thomson. |
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Script Tasks |
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From SQLServerCentral.com Supplies the code to accomplish many typical tasks that Script Tasks would be used for. |
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by Robert Sheldon at Simple-Talk |
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From DatabaseJournal.com by Marcin Policht. |
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Interesting article on a "gotcha" working with variables in the SSIS 2008 Script Component |
by Josef Richberg at SQLServerCentral.com |
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But see also Keelio, a third-party provider of SSIS Add-ons. |
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A blog post by Jamie Thomson with contributions by some others. |
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From SQLServerCentral.com Stan Kulp. Contains a technique for loading XML (file or files) using variables and a For Each Loop container. |
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A blog post by Jamie Thomson. |
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Accessing SharePoint Lists with SQL Server Integration Services SSIS 2005 |
From MSSQLTips.com by Ray Barley. Requires a download of components from CodePlex.com. |
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From MSSQLTips.com by Hal Hayes. This clever technique uses a For Each Loop container. |
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From MSSQLTips.com by Daniel Calbimonte. |
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Working with Property Expressions in SQL Server Integration Services |
From Simple-Talk.com by Robert Sheldon. |
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From Simple-Talk.com by Robert Sheldon. It's not so much a cribsheet as it is a list of SSIS changes in SQL 2008. |
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Huuuuuge pile of links to SSIS Tips |
...found at MSSQLTips.com |
| By Blesson John, at SQLServerCentral.com. It deals with 64-bit to 32-bit issues. | |
| By PragmaticWorks. | |
| From the SSISTalk.com website. | |
| SQL Mag Instant Doc #101918, by Shaunt Khaldtiance. | |
| From the BI Polar blog. | |
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Third party SSIS Add-on vendors:
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| www.Dougbert.com |
"Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services and more by Douglas Laudenschlager". |
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From SQLServerCentral.com by Mark Murphy. Comparisons to two other incremental load methods are compared in related articles. |
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Introduction to Change Data Capture (CDC) in SQL Server 2008 |
From Simple-Talk.com by Pinal Dave. |
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An MSDN resource found within a SQL Server forum. |
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Measuring
and Understanding the Performance of Your SSIS Packages in the Enteprise
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An MSDN resource. |
| Dynamic ETL with SSIS | From SQLServerCentral.com by Sarah Doriss; introduces some very interesting concepts of abstraction when loading flat files. |
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An MSDN resource with code samples and good descriptions. |
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Building Packages Programmatically
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Check out the BIMonkey website. |
A blog site by James Beresford, a consultant in Sydney, Australia. His BI specialty is SSIS. |
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From Simple-Talk, by Nigel Rivett. |
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An MSDN resource. |
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From AgileBI.com by John Welch. This also deals with package validation issues. |
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From SQLBlog.com by "SSIS Junkie", a.k.a. Jamie Thomson. This is an editorial on why the author doesn't use Checkpoint files. |
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"ETL Framework for SSIS 2008 - Part 1" "ETL Framework for SSIS 2008 - Part 2" |
By James Miller at
BITRACKS. Especially read the opening two paragraphs of Part 1. |
| A blog post by James Snape. | |
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SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) 10 Quick Best Practices |
An MSDN resource. |
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From SQLCat.com, with several authors and reviewers. "CAT" stands for "Customer Advisory Team". Lots of other resources out at the site, too. |
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Conditional Set-Based Processing: Moving Towards a Best Practice for ETL |
From SQLServerCentral.com by Mel Sansone. Talks about improving reliability and durability with bulk loads. |
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From SQLServerCentral.com by Zach Mattson. |
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Reporting Services (SSRS) links |
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General SSRS References |
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By Bill Pearson at Simple Talk. |
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| SQL Server Reporting Services Product Samples |
Found at CodePlex.com. Found here are sample databases, reports, report model samples, extension samples and more. |
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Data-Driven Subscriptions
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SQL Server 2005 Report Design: Best Practices and Guidelines |
A whitepaper (Word doc) from Microsoft, authors Brian Welcker and Chris Hayes. |
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For those coming from Business Objects / Crystal Reports
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Excellent checklist created by a firm in Sydney, Australia. |
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From MSSQLTips.com by Rob Fisch. |
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ASP Alliance's links to SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services |
From ASPAlliance.com |
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A Microsoft TechNet resource. |
| A TechNet resource for SQL 2008. | |
| A Microsoft MSDN resource. | |
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How to: Configure a Report Server on a Network Load Balancing Cluster |
A Microsoft TechNet resource. |
| Blog post. | |
| MSSQLTips.com. | |
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Ten Common SQL Server Reporting Services Challenges and Solutions |
By Ryan Duclos at Simple-Talk. |
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Business Intelligence
with Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services - |
A good, general look at Reporting Services by Adnan Massood at the "15 Seconds" website. Shows a number of screenshots including installation of SQL 2000 Reporting Services installation. |
| By Devin Knight, at SQLServerCentral.com. | |
| An MSDN resource, a "parent link", to other links regarding integration of SSRS into custom applications. | |
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Third party RDL development tools:
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| From the Microsoft Download Center. | |
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SCRUBS: SQL Reporting Services audit, log, management & optimization analysis |
This is an SSIS community project
found at CodePlex for reporting on SSRS report execution. The download includes a package (PKG) and several reports. |
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Script to Determine SQL Server Reporting Services Parameters, Path and Default Values |
From MSSQLTips.com by Sankar Reddy. |
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From MSSQLTips.com by Tibor Nagy. |
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How to Enable SSIS as Data Source Type on SQL Server Reporting Services SSRS 2008 R2 |
From MSSQLTips.com by Siddharth Mehta. It describes proper editing of "RSReportDesigner.config". |
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SQLMag (February 2008) by Rodney Landrum, Instant Doc #97840. |
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Scale Out SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services Farm using NLB Part 1 |
From MSSQLTips.com by Edwin Sarmiento. |
| How to: Add Cascading Parameters to a Report (Reporting Services) |
A SQL 2008 MSDN resource. I like the procedural documentation. |
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Lesson 1: Adding Parameters to Filter Reports by Date (SSRS) |
A SQL 2008 MSDN resource. |
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A SQL 2008 MSDN resource. |
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From the SQL BI Dev weblog. Also introduces the use of a Split UDF to accommodate stored procedures that support multi-value selections within a report. |
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From BIDN.com, by Mike Davis. |
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A weblog of Boyan Penev. |
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SSRS #51 – Using Parameters in SSRS – Cascading Parameter (2) See also her other post (#50) detailing seven uses of report parameters. |
A weblog of Sherry Li. |
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How to Optimize Report Parameter Dropdowns in SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) 2005 |
From MSSQLTips.com, by Ray Barley. |
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Understanding Expression References (Reporting Services) The ways that you can use expressions in SSRS:
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An MSDN resource. |
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Expression Examples (Reporting Services) This topic provides examples of expressions that can be used for common tasks in a report.
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An MSDN resource. |
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A SQLServerCentral.com resource, by Devin Knight. |
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Help with the
Use of Nested IIF() Functions (and also consider the use of custom code) |
From the Tek-Tips.com forums. |
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Using Report and Group Variables Collection References in Expressions (Reporting Services) |
An Microsoft TechNet resource describing best use of Report Variables and Group Variaables. |
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An MSDN resource. |
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Dynamically Control Data Filtering in SQL Server Reporting Services Reports |
An MSSQLTips.com resource by Ray Barley, article 1743. |
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Creating Dynamic Report Filters in SQL Server Reporting Services SSRS |
An MSSQLTips.com resource by Ray Barley, article 1897. |
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An MSSQLTips.com resource by Ray Barley. |
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An MSDN resource. There are some peculiarities in connecting to this type of data source. |
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Dashboards & Visualizations |
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An MSDN resource for SQL Server 2005 written by Robert Bruckner. A link with sample code is available as well as a Word version of the article. |
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Reporting Services 2008 R2: Geospatial Visualization – Part I |
Interesting and useful example by Dinesh Priyankara at SQLServerPerformance.com. |
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[A tutorial] By Sunil Chandurkar of SQLServerCentral.com. |
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Building
a Dashboard in SQL Server Reporting Services |
By Rob Fisch at MSSQLTips.com. |
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Display Graphics Dynamically Based on Data Content in SQL Server Reporting Services |
From MSSQLTips.com resource by Rob Fisch. |
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From SQLServerCentral.com by Sam Vanga. |
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SQL Server Reporting Services Scatter Chart for Data Correlation |
An MSSQLTips.com resource by Siddarth Mehta. |
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Excel and Charting |
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From the Dashboard Spy. The placement of this is a bit out of context, but understanding charts in Excel is well along the way to understanding them in SSRS. |
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From PeltierTech.com. |
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By Todd French at About.com. |
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Various tutorials and other resources found at ExcelCharts.com. |
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Layout & Design |
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| Setting Alternate Row Colors in SQL Server Reporting Services (a.k.a. "Greenbar") |
Reference #1, Chris Hays's Reporting Services Sleazy Hacks Weblog. Reference #2, Brian Knight, SQLServerCentral. Reference #3, see the Report Design Best Practices document (p. 13) referenced on this page. |
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Row and Column Headers on Multiple Pages |
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By Chris Hays. |
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A SQL 2008 MSDN resource. |
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Some links on Mailing Labels in SSRS:
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By Rob Fisch at MSSQLTips.com. |
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By Ray Barley at MSSQLTips.com. |
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A SQL 2008 MSDN resource. |
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By Rob Fisch at MSSQLTips.com. |
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A Microsoft Connect resource. |
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| By Adam Aspin of SQLServerCentral | |
| Let’s Get Visual – The Art of Report Design |
From SQLServerCentral.com by Paul Turley of the SQL Server BI Blog.
Excellent article on good visual report design principles. |
| Reporting Services with Style |
From Simple-Talk, by Barry King.
The article discusses overcoming the lack of a style sheets capability in SSRS. |
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Display Complex Hierarchical Data with Server-Side Pagination |
From SQLServerCentral.com, by Peichung Shih. |
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Working with Spatial Data Part IV - Developing a Geospatial Dashboard (GIS) |
A SQLServerPerformance.com reference by Siddharth Mehta. |
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From SQLServerCentral.com by Peichung Shih. References to cool mapping add-ons. |
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SQL Magazine articles by Stacia Misner
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Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services 2008 R2 |
Became available May 11, 2010. |
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Report Builder 3.0 Videos (and other resource links) |
An MSDN resource. |
| Exploring SSRS 2008 R2 Report Builder 3.0 – Report Parts |
A blogpost (SQLMusings) by Donabel (Belle) Santos from British Columbia. |
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From MSSQLTips.com by Ray Barley. |
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| Report Builder 3.0 FAQ |
A Word 2007 document by Robert Bruckner, which I located in this blogpost on Report Builder 1.0 v. Report Builder 3.0 from Ella Maschiach. |
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Drillthrough, Drilldown, Subreports, and Nested Data Regions (Report Builder 3.0 and SSRS) |
An Microsoft TechNet resource. |
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Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services |
Became available April 2009. |
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From MSSQLTips.com by Ray Barley. |
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A Series of good tutorials on Report Builder 2.0 |
From Exforsys Inc. |
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Tutorial: Adding a Parameter to a Report (Report Builder 1.0) |
An MSDN resource. |
| Report Builder 2.0 ClickOnce and SQL Server 2008 CTP SP1 Experience |
A blogpost by Dan English. bunch of links on the page related to setting up Report Builder 2.0 ClickOnce behavior. I have not read every word of the article nor tried the procedures defined therein. |
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An MSDN resource. |
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Getting Started with Data Bars in SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services |
From MSSQLTips.com by Ray Barley. The example uses Report Builder 3.0 on the Contoso DW sample (a link to this sample is found elsewhere on this site). |
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Resources on the Tablix Data Region in SQL 2008 Reporting Services |
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SQL 2008 Books Online. |
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SQL 2008 Books Online. |
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SQL 2008 Books Online. Several good subtopics:
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SQL 2008 Books Online. |
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SQL 2008 Books Online. |
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SQL 2008 Books Online. One of the sections of the article I like is entitled "Understanding Tablix Visual Cues". |
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SQL 2008 Books Online, shows the relationship of various Tablix Element Properties (in RDL) to each other. |
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A Tutorial on the Tablix Data Region
Tablix - Stepped Layout |
From ReportBuilder.com. I like the visual examples they provide. |
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How to create an SSRS DataSet using the MDX Query Editor First, create a DataSource using the "Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services" Provider. Then, create a new Report using the New Report Wizard. When you define the DataSet the MDX Query Editor will be used. If, alternatively, you use the OLE-DB Provider for Analysis Services 9.0 you will only be able to use the Generic Query Editor. |
A link on Google books, with credit going to the authors of "Professional SQL Server Analysis Services 2005 with MDX" by Sivakumar Harinath, Stephen R. Quinn. See pp. 605-607. |
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SQLMag (December 2007) by Chris Webb, Instant Doc #97290. |
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SharePoint Integration with Reporting Services |
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SharePoint / Reporting Services Integration URLs of interest:
How to:
Install and Configure SharePoint Integration on a Stand-alone Server
(Single Server scenario, TechNet) Integrating Sharepoint 2010 and SQL Reporting Services 2008 in 6 Easy Steps (The Code Project, by Raymund Macaalay) Working Together: SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services Integration in SharePoint 2010 (TechNet, by Alan Le Marquand)
Configure Reporting Services to Run in SharePoint Integrated Mode (MSSQLTips.com) |
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Microsoft SQL Server 2005 SP2 Reporting Services integration with WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 |
From the Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog. |
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From MSDN related to SQL Server 2008 R2. Also has a link to a video. |
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From MSDN by Chris Alton. Covers SQL 2008 and has links to SQL 2005. |
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A link on troubleshooting why Report Server Content Types don't show up in SharePoint |
From Prologika.com by Teo Lachev. |
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Installing Reporting Services 2008 R2 in SharePoint Integrated Mode |
From DataInspirations by Stacia Misner. |
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Integrating SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services with SharePoint 2010 |
From MSSQLTips.com by Ray Barley. |
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This is a great, free tool. "Reporting Services Scripter is a .NET Windows Forms application that enables scripting and transfer of all Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services catalog items to aid in transferring them from one server to another." |
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A SQLServerCentral.com reference by Jon Tavernier. This helps with managing underlying schema changes and the potential effects on production reports. |
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A SQLServerCentral.com reference by SQL RNNR. |
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A SQLServerCentral.com reference by Andy Owl. |
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How do you create templates for SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services reports? |
From StackOverflow.com.
The procedure is different for Visual Studio 2008. Look for a file called "report.rdl". |
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From SQLServerCentral.com by Wayne Sheffield. The article details adding new items to the "File >> New >> Project..." menu. |
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A resource website. They have some interesting projects and downloadables. |
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From www.BalancedScorecard.org, the Balanced Scorecard Institute. Pay particular attention to the "Vision and Strategy" diagram. |
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From ActiveStrategy.com. |
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| Scorecards vs. Dashboards |
From Jonathan D. Becher's blog. |
| Dashboards vs. Scorecards |
From DataWg.com. "Data Warehousing Tutorials; Business Intelligence Guide". Useful comparison of what each resource should contain. |
| Dashboards vs. Scorecards |
From ZSL.com, posted at NC.gov. Again, nice examples on the three page PDF. |
| How are Balanced Scorecards and Dashboards Different? |
From Information-Management.com
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Contains examples. Dashboards by Example" from Enterprise-Dashboard.com. |
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From ExecutionMiH.com ("MiH" = Make it happen). Some of the links on this page appear to be (temporarily?) broken. |
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Balanced Scorecard (Wikipedia definition) |
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www.OLAPREPORT.com |
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"Global coverage of the business intelligence ecosystem" |
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BIDN (Business Intelligence Developer Network) |
A service from Pragmaticworks. |
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BIDS Helper, a Visual Studio add-in... |
...that extends BIDS functionality. |
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Found at SQLServerPedia, powered by Quest. |
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Building Integrated SQL Server Business Intelligence (BI) Solutions with Microsoft Office 2007 |
MSSQLTips.com. Really cool article. |
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A SQLMag (September 2008), Dell-sponsored downloadable document by Scot Reagin. You must register at SQLMag first. |
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| BI Architecture and Design Guidelines | A link to several downloadable documents for Microsoft's community site, CodePlex, on BI Design and framework recommendations. |
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CRISP methodology website |
<This may no longer be available.> |
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My ridiculous and incomplete SSAS Study notes and terms |
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Microsoft Business Intelligence Project Booster Kit: Tools & Utilities |
Referenced at SQLServerCentral.com, by Siddharth Mehta. |
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A few links I made. |
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SQL Server 2000 DTS Package Migration to SQL 2005 |
A TechTarget resource. |
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Dan English's free Performance Point 2010 video series |
From Dan's blogsite. |
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An article, "Conducting Data Warehouse & Business Intelligence Software Evaluation" |
by Denise Rogers at DatabaseJournal.com. I found this article useful on several levels, on evaluating software, running projects, and more. |
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A whitepaper from DataBeacon. |
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From DataWarehousing Review. |
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From purplefrogsystems.com. |
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A cube explored through a browser. Click on one of the five blue box data cubes. |
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The OLAP Report and some thoughts about Gemini |
In particular, a comment on Microsoft's upcoming BI client, code-named Gemini, article updated on October 19, 2008. |
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"...provides education, training, certification, news, and research for executives and information technology (IT) professionals worldwide." |
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"Analysis Services Resource Hub". Reference website. |
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Conference. |
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From SQLLunch.com. Lots of recorded BI multimedia presentations. |
| ~Comprehensive~ list of Codeplex samples for SQL Server |
Contains samples for:
...and more. |
| Microsoft Contoso BI Demo Dataset for Retail Industry | Ficticious data warehouse backup and Analysis Services database backup. |
