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Tag Archive: SSRS

  • Map Postcodes in SSRS Reporting Services

    March 5th, 2012 in Blog, Reporting Services

    I was asked the other day for some help on how to plot data by postcode on an SSRS spatial map. I’ve done this a few times, initially for a presentation I gave back in 2010 and most recently a couple of weeks ago when I wanted to analyse the SQLMidlands membership. It occurred to me that despite posting a number of blogs using spatial data, I’ve not done one on the basics of plotting postcode data. So here we go… Scenario You…

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  • OLAP Cube Documentation in SSRS part 3

    September 29th, 2010 in Analysis Services, Blog, Business Intelligence, Reporting Services, SQL Server

    This is the 3rd and final post in this series of blog posts, showing how you can use SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), DMVs and spatial data to generate real time automated user guide documentation for your Analysis Services (SSAS) OLAP cube. Part 1 – Creating the DMV stored procs Part 2 – Create the SSRS reports Part 3 – Use spatial data and maps to create a star schema view Download Source Code UPDATE: I presented a 1…

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  • OLAP Cube Documentation in SSRS part 2

    September 27th, 2010 in Analysis Services, Blog, Business Intelligence, Reporting Services, SQL Server

    In my previous post I described how to create a number of stored procedures that use Dynamic Management Views (DMVs) to return the metadata structure of an SSAS 2008 OLAP cube, including dimensions, attributes, measure groups, BUS matrix etc. In this post I’m going to use those procs to create a set of SSRS 2008 reports that will serve as the automated documentation of your cube. I’m going to make the following assumptions:…

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  • OLAP Cube Documentation in SSRS part 1

    September 25th, 2010 in Analysis Services, Blog, Business Intelligence, Reporting Services, SQL Server

    Being a business intelligence consultant, I like to spend my time designing data warehouses, ETL scripts and OLAP cubes. An unfortunate consequence of this is having to write the documentation that goes with the fun techy work. So it got me thnking, is there a slightly more fun techy way of automating the documentation of OLAP cubes… There are some good tools out there such as BI Documenter, but I wanted a way of having more control over…

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  • Clearing SSRS Query cache

    April 7th, 2010 in .Net, Blog, Reporting Services

    When developing SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) reports, BIDS caches the query results when you preview the report. This cache is then used next time you run a preview. This has the benefit of speeding up report development, but it does cause a problem when you want to test changing data. A simple way of forcing the cache to refresh is to open the folder containing the .rdl report files, and delete the corresponding .rdl.data files. The…

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