Queries

Instead of showing empty report sections because a query produced no results, I wanted to add some text to explain the outcome. I turned to an option called, No Rows,…

You know how life gets busy and you never seem to have any time for smaller projects? Well, am I ever grateful to Julie Andreacola who reminded me about Visual…

What do I mean by, “Setting up security for SCCM Power BI reports?” First, in order to create and run Power BI reports, you need to access the SQL Server…

Up until now, my experience working with SCCM’s Role-Based Administration (RBA) queries showed them to be slower than the normal SQL Server views. My thoughts changed, however, when I recently…

This blog post is really meant for those who are better at writing SQL Server queries than at writing PowerShell scripts. I am one of those people, so recently I…

Have you ever watched someone use one of your reports/dashboards? I have and it is always fascinating to see how someone will review the data. If they have prior experience…

Little things do make a difference and this is especially true when it comes to SCCM reports. Oftentimes in my report writing sessions I don’t have time to show folks…

At the last Midwest Management Summit which was held at the Mall of America, I was stopped in the hallway after one of my SCCM reporting presentations. I was asked…

In this blog post I will show you how to connect Power BI Desktop to your System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) SQL Server database. During the connection process I will…

A super-cool feature with SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) is all of the available options for creating dashboards and reports! For example, did you know that you can hide an…