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What is the best references/links,cheatsheets for the MDX language? Here are a few starters that I have collected. Please share yours :) http://www.gumper.com/mdx.html http://www.sqlserveranalysisservices.com/OLAPPapers/InventoryManagement%20in%20AS2005v2.htm http://www.ssas-info.com/ssas-cheat-sheets/72-cheat-sheets/880-time-mdx-cheat-sheets I was the only one that knew MDX and had to write these documents for my poor colleagues before I left the company... It's perhaps hard to look through if you don't know what you're looking for, but the Microsoft MDX Reference is actually very good if you

I'm looking for a templating tool that allows powerful manipulation of data and report building. JasperReports is powerful, but is it the best out there? I generally don't need the ability for fancy colors or gradients, but I do need the ability to position data accurately and produce reliable, quick results. Ideally, generating a report shouldn't need to be driven by a visual tool, either, and should be entirely API based. Does anyone have real experience with any major reporting framework in a large scale application? Some of the reporting tools I've seen deal primarily with

As occurring more often something simple is not so simple in SSIS (v 2008) Situation before B.I. came in: data was loaded into linked tables in hidden excel sheets, there were macro's and manual adaptations. After : Still hidden sheets but we replaced macro functionalities with SSIS and had to unlink the table to get rid of the pop-up when opening the files: "The following data may have been lost: -Table" Since we unlinked the table (and by consequence deleted the connection) we can't address the hidden sheet anymore via SSIS: Excel Destination. Non-hidden sheets are no problem and are visible

I need help in creating a BIRT report; the situation is that I have multiple queries but the report all columns should be grouped by One column for example (Operator) Like : Operator | Expr1 | Expr2 | Expr3 | Expr4 | op1 | ## | ## | ## | ## | op2 | ## | ## | ## | ## | op3 | ## | ## | ## | ## | How can i accomplish that ? I 'm trying to make the Operator separate data set and put it in the first column and add a parameter in all quires i.e (where (operator = ?)) to get the Operator from the current row of operators column..But I can not attach the parameter value in each dataset to a the

I have installed Microsoft SQL Server 2005. This consists of the configuration tools (SQL server configuration manager, SQL Error and usage Reporting, SQL Server Surface area configuration, Reporting Services configuration) and SQL Server Management Studio. However, I don't find SQL Server Business Intelligence Development Studio. How can it be installed? Is it available online as a freeware download? It sounds like you have installed SQL Server 2005 Express Edition, which does not include SSIS or the Business Intelligence Development Studio. BIDS is only provided with the (not free) Standard,

I am using SSIS in Visual Studio 2008. I have many XML files that I need to process and place into an existing DB structure (SQL Server 2005). This is my first attempt at using SSIS and am a little stuck. I have found the XML Data Flow task, assigned it a test xml file and it's associated XSD, and mapped one node to a Database Table. My question is, how do I associate many xsd nodes with many tables? Surely I don't have to set up an XML source for each table? Here is a possible option which demonstrates how to load multiple XML files having same definition into an SQL Server table. The example