SSRS: Display Series on SSRS Chart Based on Parameter Value
I recently modified an SSRS report to display average run times for various SQL Agent jobs over the past 30,...
2013-08-09 (first published: 2013-08-05)
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Salvo(z) SQL
SSAS Data Mining – Time Series Algorithm
At TechEd 2013, I attended a few sessions on the topics of Data Mining and Predictive Analytics. I thought I’d...
2013-06-19
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TechEd 2013–Favorite Sessions
At TechEd 2013, I attended many excellent Business Intelligence / Data Platform sessions and thought I’d share an overview of a...
2013-06-11
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Sum Result of SSRS LookupSet Function
SSRS provides several built-in Lookup functions: Lookup, MultiLookup and LookupSet. Lookup returns a single value while MultiLookup and LookupSet return...
2013-05-27
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SSAS Event Type Calculation Dimension
Calculation dimensions in SSAS are used to store calculations that can be applied to any measure in the cube. For...
2013-05-22
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Count Weekdays in MDX
I recently implemented an MDX expression to count the number of weekdays in a given timeframe. This logic is likely...
2013-03-25
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Implementing a ‘Time Calculations’ Dimension in Tabular via DAX
A common request from business users is ‘Time Intelligence’ functionality in an SSAS cube. For example, users may wish to...
2013-03-11
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Introduction to the SQL BCP Utility
SQL Server BCP is a command line utility that bulk copies data between instances of SQL Server and data files. ...
2013-03-04
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PerformancePoint ‘Named Set’ Filter
PerformancePoint provides several options to create filters. One of the options available is ‘Named Set’. Within SSAS cubes we can...
2013-03-01 (first published: 2013-02-25)
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Configuring PerformancePoint Data Source for Time Intelligence
PerformancePoint provides functionality to map several time dimensions across multiple data sources to a ‘Master Time Dimension’. Data sources that...
2013-02-18
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The Empty Aggregate
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Question of the Day
The Empty Aggregate
I have this table in a SQL Server 2025 database:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[CustomerOrder] ( [OrderID] [int] NULL, [CustomerID] [int] NULL, [total] [money] NULL ) ON [PRIMARY] GOWhat is returned from this code? (answers are for the sum and then the count)
SELECT SUM(total) AS sum,
COUNT(total) AS count
FROM dbo.CustomerOrder;
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