Sometimes you get an error message that doesn't make any sense. "PC Load Letter" is quite a good example (Office Space, a great movie, shows how users react to such messages 😉 ). Here's an interesting one that I got when using Power View in Excel 2013 based on a tabular model: System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception (0x80004005):
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Visual Studio's configuration manager is a beautiful thing to have. You set up your connection strings to dev, Â test and production (if applicable for a developer) and you can deploy easily to these environments. If you are not aware of this, try it out, it's a great feature.
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Datamarts, cubes, tabular models...they all present a dimensional model to the end user that is intuitive. At least, that should be the case. So no abbrevations in the dimensional model. Business users tend to prefer to see the data in the same way they speak about it. So a product is a product, not a
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If you are relatively new to Reporting Services, it can be difficult to keep track of all the report elements. Your report quickly gets cluttered with elements that are contained within each other. Not a lot of people seem to be aware that there is an option called 'Document outline', that makes it easy to
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Scenario 1: You're standing in front of the class. The training you're giving is going fantastic...it is your favorite subject and you can easily talk about this for hours on end. After the course your students fill in a survey about how well they like your course and the reactions aren't that great. What's going
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