Robert Sheldon Power Query Formula Language in Power BI Desktop The Power Query Formula Language (PQFL) is a functional language that drives the Power BI transformations, and allows you to... 21 September 2015 19 min read
Robert Sheldon Working with SQL Server data in Power BI Desktop What's the best way of providing self-service business intelligence (BI) to data that is held in on-premise SQL Server? Not,... 24 August 2015 24 min read
Robert Sheldon The Evolution of SQL Server BI It is sometimes hard to keep up with Microsoft's direction in Business Intelligence. Over the years, we've been presented with... 27 July 2015 14 min read
Feodor Georgiev Using R to Explore Data by Analysis – for SQL Professionals What's the best way for a SQL programmer to learn about R? It's probably by trying out various experiments with... 02 June 2015 17 min read
Feodor Georgiev Making Data Analytics Simpler: SQL Server and R R and SQL Server are a match made in heaven. You don't need anything special to get started beyond the... 28 April 2015 13 min read
Adam Aspin Mobile BI with SQL Server Reporting Services For users to get the information they need from mobile reports, we frequently have to tailor the way we design... 15 April 2015 30 min read
Kathi Kellenberger SQL Server Reporting Services Basics: Deploying Reports Having designed and tested our reports, it's time to deploy them to the Report Server, so that our users can... 06 January 2015 20 min read
Kathi Kellenberger SQL Server Reporting Services Basics: The Visual Controls The challenge of report development is to present complex data in a simple, visually compelling way. The goal is to... 03 December 2014 17 min read
Kathi Kellenberger SQL Server Reporting Services Basics: Customizing SSRS Reports While the Reporting Wizard and basic report tables will do for prototyping, very soon we'll want to add some finesse... 27 August 2014 23 min read
Kathi Kellenberger SQL Server Reporting Services Basics: Building SSRS Reports SQL Server Reporting Services is one of the most popular components of SQL Server, but it has always been surprisingly... 25 April 2014 27 min read
Scott Murray SQL Server Reporting Services Advanced Charting SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) has evolved over the years to incorporate many new data visualization capabilities. In this article,... 08 October 2013 21 min read
Rodney Landrum SSRS Reports as a Data Source in Excel 2013 DBAs are expected to know how to administer the technologies that are available with and peripheral to SQL Server. To... 26 September 2013 11 min read
Robert Sheldon Using DAX to create SSRS reports: The Basics You can use DAX to create reports from a tabular database in SQL Server Reporting Services. To do so requires... 27 August 2013 15 min read
Robert Sheldon Using Microsoft Excel to Retrieve SSAS Tabular Data Although it is well-known how to create a tabular database in PowerPivot, it is less obvious that there are several... 16 July 2013 19 min read
Robert Sheldon Using DAX to retrieve tabular data Data Analysis Expressions (DAX), originally the formula language for PowerPivot workbooks, can also be used within the MDX query window... 24 June 2013 17 min read
Robert Sheldon Getting Started with the SSAS Tabular Model SSAS Tabular models are in-memory databases that model data with relational constructs such as tables and relationships, in order to... 22 May 2013 16 min read
Holger Schmeling Developing a Report Definition Customization Extension for Multi-Language Reports When you need to present the same SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) report in eight or more different languages, or... 19 April 2013 31 min read
Richard Morris Bill Baker: Geek of the Week Bill Baker had a considerable influence on the way that SQL Server evolved to deliver reporting services and business intelligence.... 04 December 2012 8 min read
Robert Sheldon Report Builder 3.0: Adding Matrices to Your Reports It is easy to create a basic matrix in Report Builder. However, it takes some practice in order to format... 04 December 2012 18 min read
Robert Sheldon Report Building 3.0: Adding Maps to Your Reports With Report Builder and SSMS, there isn't much you can't do in the way of the common reports and visualisations.... 13 November 2012 17 min read
