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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
July CTP of SQL Server 2008 Is Out
July CTP of SQL Server 2008 (Katmai) is out. On the BI side of things: New SSRS Report Engine “Improvements represent the two major infrastructure changes for Reporting Services. Reporting […]
Empty Affairs
If you have a cube with large dimensions you may have come across the following error: The expression contains a function that cannot operate on a set with more than […]
SQL Server 2008 (Katmai) to Launch February 28th 2008
From the latest MS press release “In anticipation for the most significant Microsoft enterprise event in the next year, Turner announced that Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and Microsoft […]
SSRS Setup Woes
I was setting up Reporting Services 2005 today on a clean Windows XP machine and I came across the infamous error: The report server has encountered a configuration error. See […]
How to install SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services on a Windows Vista-based computer
I spent a couple of hours today trying to get SSRS 2005 working on Vista. I was getting the infamous IIS 500 error when browsing the Report Manager (http://localhost/reports) and […]
Analysis Services Query Performance Top 10 Best Practices
I came across this little gem which I haven’t noticed so far. A nice summary of the 10 things you should do to optimize the UDM query performance. The best […]
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