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Under the Hood

One of the major themes in SSRS 2008 is scalability. A significant effort will be made to ensure that SSRS scales well with large reports. Why is this needed? Recall that in SSRS 2005 (and 2000), report processing is instance-based. This means that the...

Published Wed, Aug 29 2007 9:21 PM by Teo Lachev

Filed under: Reporting Services, SQL Server 2008
Identifying and Resolving MDX Query Performance Bottlenecks Whitepaper

Performance is the most common incentive for using Analysis Services. Yet, despite the advances in the SSAS management tools, optimizing the MDX query performance is still considered as "black magic" by many. Graphical optimization tools similar...

Published Tue, Aug 28 2007 10:21 PM by Teo Lachev

Filed under: Analysis Services
Microsoft Launches Tafiti

Microsoft launches a preview of a cool search portal dubbed Tafiti to bring the web search to a new level and give Google a run for its money. From FAQ "Tafiti, which means 'do research' in Swahili, is an experimental search front-end from...

Published Fri, Aug 24 2007 12:04 PM by Teo Lachev

Filed under: General
Charting the Future

It is old news by now that Microsoft has acquired the intellectual rights to the Dundas Reporting Services controls, including the Dundas chart, map, gauge, and calendar. At this point, it is not known if all controls will make it to Katmai but the chart...

Published Sat, Aug 18 2007 11:16 PM by Teo Lachev

Filed under: Reporting Services, SQL Server 2008
RDL Object Model on the Horizon

As I mentioned in a previous blog , SQL Server 2008 will probably include an RDL Object Model. This is great news for developers who generate report definitions programmatically. No more custom RDL object models as the one I talked about during my TechEd...

Published Tue, Aug 14 2007 6:10 PM by Teo Lachev

Filed under: Reporting Services, SQL Server 2008
How to Get Extended Properties with SSAS OLE DB Provider

Many report developers find the SSAS data provider too restrictive for authoring reports from UDM. Instead, they replace it with the native Microsoft OLE DB Provider for Analysis Services 9.0 which gives them maximum flexibility at the expense of convenience...

Published Tue, Aug 14 2007 3:01 PM by Teo Lachev

Filed under: Reporting Services, Analysis Services
SQL Server Katmai Reporting Services Forum

In case you've missed it, the SSRS team has started a SQL Server Katmai Reporting Services forum and eagerly awaits your feedback.

Published Mon, Aug 13 2007 10:10 PM by Teo Lachev

Filed under: Reporting Services, SQL Server 2008
Tablix – The Crown Jewel

One of most important enhancements coming up in SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services is the new tablix region. In fact, I dare to predict that many folks will upgrade to SSRS 2008 just to get Tablix. What's tablix anyway? Tablix = Tabl e + Matr ix So...

Published Sun, Aug 12 2007 10:34 PM by Teo Lachev

Filed under: Reporting Services, SQL Server 2008
The New Kid on the Block (aka Stand-alone Report Designer)

The need for a stand-alone Report Designer is real. True, developers, including myself, enjoyed the VS.NET Report Designer. But novice users were overwhelmed with the complexity of the VS.NET IDE environment. In addition, not all IT shops rejoiced over...

Published Tue, Aug 7 2007 7:13 AM by Teo Lachev

Filed under: Reporting Services, SQL Server 2008
The Perfect Host

This is my first blog about SSRS 2008. The July CTP (CTP4) of SQL Server 2008 (aka Katmai) includes the new hosting model of Reporting Services. Gone is the dependency to IIS and all the management headaches associated with it. Instead, the SSRS Windows...

Published Sat, Aug 4 2007 11:38 AM by Teo Lachev

Filed under: Reporting Services, SQL Server 2008
Scale-Out Querying with Analysis Services Article

I've come across a good best practices article about scaling out SSAS by Denny Lee and Nicholas Dritsas. It describes how to set up a load-balanced scalable querying environment for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services so that you can handle...

Published Wed, Aug 1 2007 4:51 PM by Teo Lachev

Filed under: Analysis Services

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August 2007 - Prologika (Teo Lachev's Weblog)

Blogs

Training

News

Syndication

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Reporting Services Links

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Blog Roll

Archives

Under the Hood

Identifying and Resolving MDX Query Performance Bottlenecks Whitepaper

Microsoft Launches Tafiti

Charting the Future

RDL Object Model on the Horizon

How to Get Extended Properties with SSAS OLE DB Provider

SQL Server Katmai Reporting Services Forum

Tablix – The Crown Jewel

The New Kid on the Block (aka Stand-alone Report Designer)

The Perfect Host

Scale-Out Querying with Analysis Services Article