Brian Larson
  


Brian Larson is chief of technology at Superior Consulting Services in Minneapolis. He's a frequent presenter on SQL Server business intelligence and the author of Delivering Business Intelligence with Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (McGraw-Hill/Osborne). Through a special arrangement with Osborne/McGraw-Hill, we invite you to preview a chapter from Brian's new book on Writing a New Script-MDX Scripting


Email address: blarson@teamscs.com

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Take Control of Your Reports with ReportViewer, Part 2 This article is only available to subscribers.  Sign up now and get instant access!

The ReportViewer control is a powerful tool for integrating reports into Windows and Web form applications. You can make it even more powerful if you're willing to write a few lines of Visual Basic .NET or Visual C# code.

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Take Control of Your Reports with ReportViewer This article is only available to subscribers.  Sign up now and get instant access!

If you need more report functionality than SSRS can offer, Visual Studio 2005's ReportViewer control might be just what you need.

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The Case of Locating National's Treasures This article is only available to subscribers.  Sign up now and get instant access!

A mysterious email message leads B.I. Powers to track down codes on National Manufacturing's reports and teach them how to use meaningful names.

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The Case of the Wicked Wrist Rapper This article is only available to subscribers.  Sign up now and get instant access!

Is foul play behind the excessive number of wrist injuries at a local manufacturing company? Can B.I. Powers convince the company's president to use Analysis Services to secure access to data?

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The Case of the All-Inclusive Collection This article is only available to subscribers.  Sign up now and get instant access!

A fanatical collector demands a report that will let her see everything in her collections. Can B.I. Powers provide the solution by modifying a Reporting Services parameter?

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The Case of the Multitudinous Dates This article is only available to subscribers.  Sign up now and get instant access!

A date with a fig lands B.I. Powers in an investigation of a mysterious fruit theft. Can Powers help the nutty culprit create a time dimension?

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The Case of the Historical Conundrum This article is only available to subscribers.  Sign up now and get instant access!

Mysterious security-log entries put B.I. Powers on the trail of a time traveler. Can Reporting Services’ history snapshots save the culprit from performing unnecessary work?

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The Case of the Out-of-Date Cube This article is only available to subscribers.  Sign up now and get instant access!

B.I. Powers turns up an OLAP cube that's dragging a company into the past. Is SQL Server 2005 behind the latency? Can Powers find a simple solution?

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The Case of the Possessed Server This article is only available to subscribers.  Sign up now and get instant access!

When mysterious SQL Server Agent jobs appear on a seemingly isolated server, a DBA engages B.I. Powers to discover the cause. Is dear departed Uncle Wally trying to contact his nephew?

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The Case of the Good Data Gone Bad This article is only available to subscribers.  Sign up now and get instant access!

The intrepid B.I. Powers is engaged to track down missing data. Is the data loss part of an international conspiracy? Or is the solution closer to home?

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Developing Familiarity with BI This article is only available to subscribers.  Sign up now and get instant access!

SQL Server 2005’s BI tools might seem intimidating to relational database developers. But three new tasks offer and easy introduction to automating data analysis and data mining.

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The Case of the Missing Link This article is only available to subscribers.  Sign up now and get instant access!

When SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services administrator Greg Parker goes missing for more than a week, B.I Powers, consulting detective, is called in to find the hapless employee.

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Reporting Services: It's De-lightful This article is only available to subscribers.  Sign up now and get instant access!

Read all about the new SQL Server 2000 tool that has customers singing Microsoft's praises. Reporting Services, slated for release to manufacturing by the end of the year, handles the complete reporting life cycle.

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