Hanging up my blue badge and moving to Tableau Software. You can read about my adventures at the company and with the product at Tableau Love

My Personal site is here http://russellchristopher.me The Business Intelligence site for Russell Christopher is here: http://performancepointblog.com

http://performancepointblog.com/2009/08/omg-sql-server-2008-r2-ctp2-hits-the-streets/

http://performancepointblog.com/2008/08/where-did-the-reporting-services-2008-add-in-for-sharepoint-go/

Cross posting again! http://performancepointblog.com/2008/07/proof-positive-that-ssrs-2008-is-superior-to-ssrs-2005/

Cross-posting: http://performancepointblog.com/2008/06/sql-reporting-services-what-does-that-thread-pool-pressure-warning-mean/

I had $140 burning a hole in my pocket and saw a great domain name was available, so I've purchased 2 years of hosting for the next incarnation of this blog - performancepointblog.com . The content will be similar to what you've seen here, but with a...

Here’s an interesting behavior I saw being discussed that you may run into when launching the PPS add-in for Excel when you have (or not) language packs installed: The PerformancePoint Add-in for Excel could not be loaded. The language pack for the...

Today I needed to write a bit of code to create a model on a SQL 2005 Report server which was running in Sharepoint integrated mode. Boy, what fun I had! After creating my web reference, I got this error: Custom tool error: Unable to import WebService...

Today I was playing around with stacking SSAS on top of Teradata. Essentially I have AdventureWorks DW moved over into Teradata and I’m trying to build a dumbed-down version of the AdventureWorks cube against it. Things went fairly well while my partitions...

While working on a KPI in PPS, I found that after binding an Actual and Target to my cube I couldn’t see values for these metrics after adding the KPI to Scorecard and updating. The indicator image these metrics showed was “No Data”. I broke out...

File this under "reclaim a few second of your life". If you build semi-complex pivots in the SSAS browser, you probably get annoyed when you have to rebuild them time and time again after you close the cube designer. Well, Yossi Elkayam has written the...

Just a quick update on my status – as of 1-May, I’ll be changing my focus a bit. For the last 7-8 years, I’ve been an Application Development Consultant in the Services organization here at Microsoft. Well, on Thursday I’ll be moving over to the Communications...

Disclaimer: the post below was written after 24+ hours traveling to India - I was pretty much (very much) out of my mind at the time... I just spent more than a few minutes messing around with the “SQL Server Report” report viewer in PerformancePoint...

I’ve been slacking a little bit in terms of blogging, but now that CTP6 is out with a bunch of new stuff I can “officially” talk about, I suspect I’ll be a bit more active. Today while building a VPC image of CTP6, it occurred to me how small improvements...

Today I was a lurker in a "news to me" conversation about the SSRS file share delivery provider – thought I’d pass this interesting (to me) tidbit along. When using the file share extension on a box which was NOT part of a domain, the user kept on...

If you need to build a very complex query that returns a matrix with dynamic columns and rows from T-SQL, you might want to take a look at this new project posted on CodePlex : SQL Server 2-D Matrix Builder http://www.codeplex.com/SQL2DMatrixBuilder...

For those who play around with custom assemblies in SQL Reporting Services, it’s pretty common knowledge that it is not necessary to add a <CodeGroup> element for your custom assembly in RSPreviewPolicy.config in order to use it while previewing...

I was curious what would happen when I opened an RDL file created by PerformancePoint in Report Designer, so I tried it. Here is what I discovered: 1. For whatever reason, PPS exports RDL using the SSRS 2000 RDL spec (xmlns= http://schemas.microsoft...

Today I started playing around with the ability to export/deploy PPS scorecards to SSRS: It’s actually a pretty cool piece of work! I did run into one problem up which I’m documenting here to save someone else some time. I wanted to deploy my report...

The Microsoft Knowledge Base article 941749 explains (among other things) how to remove PerformancePoint Dashboard Designer. However, it appeared to me that the steps (“Method 1” and “Method 2”) were semi-cosmetic : We’re really not explicitly told how...

A new version of the ReportViewer controls has been dropped for use w/ Orcas-created applications. From what I understand, you can also use these in 2005 as long as you remove the old 9.0 references and replace them with references to these brand-spanking...

Just got an invite from Microsoft Connect to download the November CTP of SQL 2008....you can, too! http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=3BF4C5CA-B905-4EBC-8901-1D4C1D1DA884&displaylang=en

Last week I worked with a customer who wanted to give users the ability to create and subscribe to alerts for changing KPI Values. This is a pretty standard scenario, and one we covered with BSM 2005. However, with the “loss” of Notification Services...

Shout-out to my homies Chris and Thanh. Depending on how you set up the impersonation settings on your Analysis Services cube’s data source to Oracle, you may run into the following error when trying to process: Login failure: Unknown username...