July 2009 - Posts

• QueryUnit Binaries Released

  Due to several requests I’ve also released the binaries of QueryUnit: http://queryunit.codeplex.com/ Enjoy! Read More... Posted Friday, July 31, 2009 6:16 PM by Davide Mauri | 0 Comments Filed under: Unit Testing, Agile, QueryUnit

• QueryUnit Proof-Of-Concept code released

  I’ve released the source code of QueryUnit . As usual the project is hosted on Codeplex: http://queryunit.codeplex.com/ Here you can read a very quick guide to start to test it http://queryunit.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?title=Proof-Of-Concept Remember Read More... Posted Thursday, July 30, 2009 4:55 PM by Davide Mauri | 2 Comments Filed under: Unit Testing, QueryUnit

• Agile BI Development: QueryUnit is born!

  Having a developer background I’m used to work trying to apply an Agile approach to projects. In these last years I focused my work primary on BI projects, and so I tried to apply an Agile approach also to them, since I really believe that Agile is the Read More... Posted Monday, July 27, 2009 7:29 PM by Davide Mauri | 7 Comments Filed under: Unit Testing, Agile, Business Intelligence, QueryUnit

• Custom Aggregations Values in SQL Reporting Services with Tablix Filters

  In these last days I’ve been working on a BI solution for a logistic company. One report I have to create has a particular behavior that can make life a little complex if you’re using Reporting Services: the value used in rows and column totals is not calculated in any way, but is just taken from the database (SSAS in this case), just like any other cell value. Read More... Posted Friday, July 24, 2009 4:20 PM by Davide Mauri | 1 Comments Filed under: Reporting Services

• SSIS Package Parameters

  With the latest release of DTLoggedExec , I’ve also added a nice functionality to make package runtime configuration a little easier, introducing the concept of “Package Parameters”. I’ve now updated the documentation adding details on how to use this Read More... Posted Friday, July 24, 2009 1:31 PM by Davide Mauri | 0 Comments Filed under: Logging, DTLoggedExec, SSIS, Integration Services

• Here I am

  Yes, here I am. I’ve finally decided to move my blog here, where a lot of friends already hosts their blogs. Here I really feel “at home” :-). But for all those who don’t know me, who I am? Well, here’s a brief introduction. My name is Davide Mauri, I Read More... Posted Friday, July 24, 2009 1:28 PM by Davide Mauri | 1 Comments