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JCirocco
Constraint Violating Yak Guru
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 Posted - 2009-09-02 : 11:04:51
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| I have been working with Reporting Services for about 5 years now but only over standard relational tables (mostly SQL Server, Oracle and AS/400) but would like to learn Analysis server and how to build a cube and report from it.Does anyone here have suggestions for books and websites to get me started?All hsuggestions are appreciated.John"The smoke monster is just the Others doing barbecue" |
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robvolk
Most Valuable Yak
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JCirocco
Constraint Violating Yak Guru
392 Posts |
Posted - 2009-09-02 : 15:16:20
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| Awsomeness, thanks! I don't mind the books. Got my start in reporting services with Brian Larson's book and it got moving in the right direction quickly.John"The smoke monster is just the Others doing barbecue" |
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savior faire
Posting Yak Master
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Posted - 2009-09-06 : 10:03:51
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| I agree that Brian Larsen's texts are very good. I used to of them for my training. In fact, that series: "SQL Server 2005 Hands ON XXXXX" are excellent, in my opinion.Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. |
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savior faire
Posting Yak Master
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Posted - 2009-09-06 : 10:06:57
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| I have fiddled with using cubes/mdx to produce ssrs reports. Larsen covers this in his SSRS book. You can fool around with this for the most part by created a data source to an SSAS server/cube and using the query builder to create the mdx expressions using drag and drop. Then reviewing/studying what was produced.I have found that this is how one can easily learn this stuff.Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. |
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JCirocco
Constraint Violating Yak Guru
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Posted - 2009-09-07 : 07:54:43
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| My big concern is creating and populating the cube. I a past life I had a 3rd party tool that used SQl/Server but their tool was used to populate the cube from a DB2/400 database so I know the concepts just not the mechanics. Thx,John"The smoke monster is just the Others doing barbecue" |
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Learning the Multi-Dimensional piece of SSRS