Parameterising Calculated Measure Definitions
I'm currently holed up in my hotel room somewhere in Sweden facing up to the fact that I've barely started work on my presentation for SQLBits on Saturday. It's on the subject of using Analysis Services as a data source for Reporting Services, and as it happens one of the tips I'll be talking about came up at work today - handling parameterised calculated measure definitions - so I thought I'd blog about it too.
RS reports commonly use calculated measures in the WITH clause to get around that annoying problem that RS needs to know about its column names in advance. If you're creating a parameterised report which allows your users to choose which columns appear when it renders, you might be tempted to write your query something like this...
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