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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

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

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

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