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I've uploaded the slides and code from my Reporting Services 2008 Tips, Tricks, Now and Beyond breakout presentation delivered on May 13th 2009 at TechEd 2009 North America.
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The TechEd 2009 BI Power Hour demos, which I blogged about before, are posted on the Microsoft BI Blog. Robert Bruckner has also posted the SSRS demo from the TechED USA 2008 Power Hour, which he renamed to Sea Battle.
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I got the final evaluation results from my session. Out of some 15 Business Intelligence sessions, mine was the fourth most attended session with 169 people attending. Based on 35 evaluations submitted, it was ranked as the third most useful session with an average satisfaction score of 3.46 on the scale...
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Today was a long day. I started by attending the Richard Tkachuk's A First Look at Large-Scale Data Warehousing in Microsoft SQL Server Code Name "Madison". Those of you familiar with Analysis Services would probably recognize the presenter's name since Richard came from the Analysis...
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I started the day by attending the Donald Farmer and Daniel Yu's session "Creating the Right Cubes for Microsoft Excel and Excel Services" hoping that I'll get a sneak preview of Excel 2010. Alas, it was all about refining the cube definition with display folders, perspectives, hierarchies...
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Day 1 of TechEd 2009 is almost over with the exception of the Community Influencers Party tonight. I heard that this year they expect 7,000 attendees. This is a huge scale-down from previous years. For instance, we had 16,000 attendees at TechEd USA 2007. Economy is hitting everything hard. I thought...
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One of my TechEd 2009 session proposals got approved. The session is tentatively named Reporting Services 2008 Tips and Tricks, How-to, and Beyond . I am planning to cover solutions to common questions and challenges that span the three phases of the reporting lifecycle: authoring, management and delivery...
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My breakout TechEd session BIN305 - Applied Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services is scheduled for June 4 at 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM in room S320 A. That's right – let's talk reporting right after the keynote! I hope to see some of you there.
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Microsoft has just let me know that my proposal for a TechEd 2007 breakout session has been approved. I've been honored to present Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services for four consecutive years at TechEd. This time, I will share practical lessons and tips harvested from report-enabling a real...
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TechEd 2006 US is over. Given the fact that VS.NET 2005, .NET 2.0, and SQL Server 2005 have matured, there weren’t many earth-shuttering announcements and cool demos. Anyway, here are some of the most interesting BI highlights written in the plane on my way home. Brian Welcker told us that RS SP2 (CTP...
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I am gradually tuning to the TechEd wave. I am leaving for Boston on Monday. I hope those of you who will attend TechEd will stop by to my session “Building Reporting Solutions with Reporting Services and Analysis Services”. I’ve already uploaded the slides and code to my website . The presentation is...
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I’ve just learned that I’ve been selected to present at TechEd 2006 US in Boston! I've been honored to present Reporting Services for three consecutive years at TechEd. This time, I will change things a bit and instead of focusing on the development area, I will talk about integrating Reporting Services...
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SQL Pass 2005 was a great show. It had about 2,000 attendees, which is great si nce you don’t feel disconnected in the TechEd crowd of 13,000 people. I did a “RS Tips, Tricks, and Gotchas” presentation with Bruce L-C whom I finally had a chance to meet. I think the presentation went...
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Everyone was rushing in the morning to see Steve Ballmer’s keynote. He said there are some 11,000 folks at the conference. No wonder, all ice creams would disappear even before arrival! Here is some statistics that got posted on the TechEd site: Feeding the Masses What does it take to feed 13,000...
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Well, I have to admit that I will miss the echo of the drums and buzz surrounding TechEd Europe 2004. There are many new and exciting things coming for developers next year which means a lot of reading too J My favorite session (besides DAT354 which I presented of course) was Scott Guthrie’s one...