Musings on Data
A blog for data, apis, and all things Power BI by Lukasz Pawlowski.
Some time ago I saw news that the New York Public Library has published its digital collection on...
Date: 06/19/2016
I'm helping some journalists get up to speed with Power BI and walking them through how to load...
Date: 04/17/2016
Recently I helped a few reporters get their first taste of building reports using Power BI. Power BI...
Date: 04/09/2016
Recently a retweet from @olivier_matrat came through my twitter feed and it struck a chord. It was...
Date: 08/25/2015
Today we're visiting London, UK. In previous posts, I've looked at data from Seattle and Chicago....
Date: 08/08/2015
One common question I get is how to do date filtering in Power BI. In a previous post, I showed how...
Date: 08/08/2015
Folks, Spread the word. Dawn, our amazing event coordinator, has put together an 'A' list of quick...
Date: 05/03/2015
One question I get from time to time is how to filter to the last week's worth of data automatically...
Date: 03/05/2015
Living in Seattle, it’s quite fun to keep track of what’s happening through data. The...
Date: 02/22/2015
Power BI Designer Preview is a standalone tool for building reports for Power BI. I'm using it...
Date: 02/19/2015
This week I'm working to create a measure to count the total commits in a repository. I thought it...
Date: 02/16/2015
Scott Hanselman has a great blog post showing how he got up and running with Power BI using the...
Date: 02/04/2015
I've not written a blog post in far too long. Now with the preview of Power BI as a free service...
Date: 02/03/2015
Wow. We just RTM’ed SQL Server 2008 R2. Check out the official web site SQL Server 2008...
Date: 04/22/2010
Problem: You may have learned about sparklines or you want to add a chart to your Tablix. You...
Date: 12/21/2009
In SSRS high availability is achieved through a Scale-out deployment that is placed behind a Network...
Date: 10/28/2009
This post is intended for ISVs or Product Development organizations who are planning to integrate...
Date: 07/02/2009
We have seen multiple customers with issues when customizing the Security Extension Sample (2005,...
Date: 05/08/2009
Over the years, we have seen a number of IIS related issues that cause trouble for users who deploy...
Date: 02/04/2009
Recently I have had little time to devote to blogging, but I did want to pass along a couple of...
Date: 01/23/2009
Denny Lee and I presented on Wednesday at the SQL PASS Community Summit 2008 on Building SSRS 2008...
Date: 11/21/2008
As part of this blog, I comment about Notification Services. I wanted to provide you the following...
Date: 09/09/2008
We've just released SQL Server 2008 (it feels great by the way!) and there have already been many...
Date: 08/07/2008
In a previous post, I talked about issues with repeated login prompts when trying to access either...
Date: 07/18/2008
Much has been said up to now about the scalability work the Reporting Services team has done in the...
Date: 07/14/2008
I’ve seen customers run into authentication issues using the SQL Server 2008 February CTP of...
Date: 03/27/2008
Hi everyone - I've been away from my blog for a little while. However, now again I have some time to...
Date: 03/18/2008
Update 5/3/2010: With time and experience, we learn. So of course an easier way exists to do what...
Date: 09/18/2007
I wanted to provide a quick note on how to scale test Reporting Services. Partially I'm posting this...
Date: 09/05/2007
This post is about a consequence of the calling ReportViewer.Reset() method related to revaluating...
Date: 08/24/2007
A while ago I wrote a blog post to explain how to monitor subscription status. You can read it here:...
Date: 08/01/2007
Just adding a quick note about the new MSDN Home Page for Reporting Services. It has links to many...
Date: 05/25/2007
It seems there is a ton on confusion about how to programmatically use multi-value parameters....
Date: 04/25/2007
Reporting Services is an example of a system that both handles interactive user load and schedule...
Date: 04/05/2007
With the coming change to Daylight Savings Time in the United States, you will need to update your...
Date: 02/13/2007
A customer came to the SQL Server Customer lab to investigate a problem with one of the feature I’m...
Date: 01/31/2007
Per user snapshots? Or multiple snapshots for a report each with different parameters at the same time
I've received questions in the past about whether the report server supports per user snapshost -...
Date: 01/12/2007
It's been a little while since my last post. I wanted to provide additional information related to...
Date: 11/15/2006
The question sometimes comes up for how to get out of the gate fast when ramping up on Reporting...
Date: 08/08/2006
There are a couple of threads on the Reporting Services MSDN Forumn and newsgroup about IE 7 Beta 3...
Date: 07/12/2006
Some folks have run into a problem using SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services now that Visual Studio...
Date: 05/23/2006
(Originally I thought this post should be titled: SQL 2005 SP1 Tattered my Report Server Database –...
Date: 05/18/2006
Some folks have asked me what happens when I upgrade my RS 2000 to an RS 2005 deployment with...
Date: 02/20/2006
Often people take a look at their report execution times and wonder how to optimize it. They readily...
Date: 02/13/2006
I'm famous - no seriously, you can watch a video on Reporting Services and Notification Services upgrade on Microsoft.com
Wanted to share with you the following link. This is a presentation I gave a little while ago on...
Date: 01/25/2006
While posting on the Reporting Services forum, I came across a post by some folks looking to know...
Date: 12/30/2005
In RS 2000, users had a lot of grief to get RS to work on the same computer as Windows SharePoint...
Date: 11/21/2005
I've received several emails from folks reading my blog asking for direct assistance with various...
Date: 11/21/2005
I've started getting questions like the following: Given a report developed on SRS 2000 can that...
Date: 11/08/2005