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Report Builder 2.0 RC1 is Here

Thanks to Robert Bruckner's blog , I've learned that the Report Builder 2.0 (previously known as Report Designer Preview) Release Candidate 1 is available for download. This should be a feature-complete build of Report Builder 2.0, which is scheduled for official release in October. IMO, Report...

Posted to Prologika (Teo Lachev's Weblog) (Weblog) by tlachev on 08-25-2008
Nasty SSAS 2008 Bug

There is a nasty known bug with SSAS 2008, where if a query that requests two measures with Sum and LastNonEmpty aggregate functions side by side and the query uses NON EMPTY (which all OLAP clients use by default), the server forces the measure with the SUM function to display empty. Steps to repro...

Posted to Prologika (Teo Lachev's Weblog) (Weblog) by tlachev on 08-15-2008
Where is Report Builder 2.0?

With the official release of SQL Server 2008, Microsoft retired the RC0 Feature Pack and added the SQL Server 2008 Feature Pack, August 2008 page . Unfortunately, the Report Builder 2.0 link got dropped along the way. Microsoft is aware of this issue and is planning to add a release candidate page for...

Posted to Prologika (Teo Lachev's Weblog) (Weblog) by tlachev on 08-13-2008
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Feature Pack, August 2008

Microsoft released a Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Feature Pack, August 2008 page which includes a collection of stand-alone install packages that provide additional value for SQL Server 2008. Strangely, Report Builder 2.0 is excluded and nowhere to be found since the RC0 page has been taken offline. Update...

Posted to Prologika (Teo Lachev's Weblog) (Weblog) by tlachev on 08-07-2008
Microsoft Has Released SQL Server 2008

Today, Microsoft announced that official release of SQL Server 2008. Build #10.0.1600.22 has been declared as a SQL Server RTM. SQL Server 2008 includes major enhancements to the Microsoft Business Intelligence Stack, some of which I have mentioned in my previous posts. Note that if you have Visual Studio...

Posted to Prologika (Teo Lachev's Weblog) (Weblog) by tlachev on 08-06-2008
Rules Have Changed

An interesting question has pop up on the Katmai RS 2008 discussion list today about how to implement a "green bar" group-level report that alternates background color for all rows in a group instance instead of doing this for each row. I attach the report sample I posted. What makes it interesting...

Posted to Prologika (Teo Lachev's Weblog) (Weblog) by tlachev on 08-05-2008
It's Done

A quick update on my book Applied Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services. I am happy to announce that the work on the manuscript is over and the manuscript RTM'd (released to manufacturing). The paper copy should be available on the reseller sites and brick and mortar stores around the publication...

Posted to Prologika (Teo Lachev's Weblog) (Weblog) by tlachev on 07-20-2008
Automating Report Deployment

Here is an awesome tip courtesy to the Craig Guyer's I Command Thee blog . You probably know that Visual Studio supports project configurations. In BIDS 2008, you can automate report deployment with configurations. For example, the following command deploys the solution using the settings of the...

Posted to Prologika (Teo Lachev's Weblog) (Weblog) by tlachev on 07-12-2008
SQL Server 2008 Available on August Price List

Courtesy to Francois Ajenstat, Director of Product Management for Microsoft SQL Server, we know that SQL Server 2008 is on the August price list. What this probably means according to my interpretation is that the SQL Server 2008 RTM date is close. More than likely, SQL Server 2008 will be released in...

Posted to Prologika (Teo Lachev's Weblog) (Weblog) by tlachev on 07-09-2008
Textbox on Steroids

One of the new features in Reporting Services 2008 that debuted in the SQL Server 2008 RC0 build is the enhanced textbox report item. In previous releases, if you wanted to mix static and dynamic expression-based text, you either needed multiple textboxes or a Visual Basic expression to concatenate strings...

Posted to Prologika (Teo Lachev's Weblog) (Weblog) by tlachev on 06-19-2008

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