Its taken me a while to get caught up on the SSIS 2012 but this blog brought up an interesting point. I remember many issues with the old Data Sources or moreso the Data Source Connection Manger that used to be available.

In your blog you state “The real solution to that problem is to use configurations” to which I whole heartedly agree. What I was a bit confused on though while from a design time perspective this Project connection manager seems like an improvment, is it an improvement from the standpoint of applying configurations in different enviornments? Is there any concerns or issues that should be taken into account when using SSIS configurations with the new Project connection manager?

Thanks!

Requires SQL 2012

5 different Microsoft reporting tools

PowerView – End Users
If they can click a button than they can use PowerView
End User Tool
Dashboards
Everything just talks to each other and there’s no need for developer work
Create fancy reports off of data models
SSRS – Report Designer & Report Builder – Developers
Customizable
Developer Tool
Static Report
PowerPivot – Developers & End Users Combined
Power User Tool
Need to create relationships
In Memory OLAP
Ad hoc
Excel –
End User Tool
PivotTables
Ad hoc Reporting Tool
Performance Point – Dashboarding tool as part of SaharePoint
Developer Tool
Score cards
KPIs

what is power view?
ad hoc reporting tools…excel pivot tables on crack

his decision matrix on when to use which tool

http://devinknightsql.wordpress.com/2012/03/01/choosing-the-right-microsoft-reporting-technology-part-1-report-services/

do the same things they can do in pivot tables, but bring in images and charts

tool is targeted towards end-users

devinknightsql.com

download excel 2013 to see excel 2013 power view, released to manufacturing fall 2012

requires silverlight 5

can use BISM tabular model or standard multi-dimensional cubes (new feature)

optimizing a data source for power view may deoptimize it for other reporting tools and other olap clients

excel 2013 has power pivot on it all ready without a download

he recommends watching 7 steps to getting kerberos right session (i think it’s chuck’s session)

DAX is supposed to be as easy as Excel formulas

DAX has really good intellisense

the scatter chart animation was a really cool demo – about 60 minutes in

the filter at 1:04 is also pretty cool

click to interact inside powerpoint is way, way cool…way better than using screenshots of reports

drillthrough to MOLAP might be in the next release

MOLAP cubes relationships will come through

for suppose, I have a situation where I am dividing 2 fields from the dataset. and i should avoid divide by zero. for which I have used 2 approaches.

1.written a custom code as below

Public Function getresult(denominator As Double, numerator as Double) As double
If denominator=0 Then
Return 0
Else
Return numerator/denominator
End If

End Function

and added caluculated field having expression
=Code.getresult(Fields!numerator.Value,Fields!denominator.Value)

2 added a calculated field having expression
=iif(Fields!denominator.Value=0,0,Fields!numerator.Value/Fields!denominator.Value)

In this two scenario’s which is the optimized approach.(considering large data/ production server).

will vbcode impacts the performance of the report.

Thanks