If your organization can afford SAN, here is another best practices article by Carl Rabeler from the SSAS team. The Scale-Out Querying with Analysis Services Using SAN Snapshots article “describes […]
Those of you preparing for Microsoft exam 70-445 Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence – Implementation and Maintenance may be interested to know that Microsoft Press has just published a […]
As I mentioned in my Under the Hood post, the SSRS 2008 engine has been redesigned to perform on-demand report processing for better scalability. As a result, textbox values are […]
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 […]
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” […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
In case you’ve missed it, the SSRS team has started a SQL Server Katmai Reporting Services forum and eagerly awaits your feedback.
