There was a huge discussion thread about the BIDS-Visual Studio integration story in the SQL Server 2008 timeframe where customers complained that BIDS got married with Visual Studio. This required […]
After covering the cool new stuff in R2, it’s time to talk about the uncool. One R2 change that really vexes me is RDLOM. RDLOM, short for Report Definition Language […]
User Access Control (UAC) is a feature of Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows Server 2008 that prevents you from running applications with administrator rights even if you are a […]
Two new data providers will be included in the SQL Server 2008 R2 release of Reporting Services, Microsoft SQL Azure and Microsoft SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse, that will let […]
Here is another one of those “by design” issues (see the Not All Calculated Members Are Born Equal blog for another recent gotcha) that are not documented but can sure […]
When Report Builder 2.0 shipped , it introduced local and server preview modes. If the report uses local references only, such an embedded data source(s), Report Builder 2.0 executes the […]
A couple of Report Builder enhancements in SharePoint 2010 integration mode caught my attention. First, Report Builder 3.0 now launches by default when the Open in Report Builder action is initiated […]
Here is a little gem for developers programming Reporting Services. SQL Server 2008 R2 brings a new web service endpoint, ReportService2010, which merges the functionalities of the ReportService2005 and ReportService2006 […]
Scenario: Mount base and differencing VHD disks using Windows Virtual PC on Windows 7 x64. Dude, did you run out of BI stuff to talk about? I didn’t but I […]
You can use the Microsoft Connect website to find most requested features. Unfortunately, the search doesn’t let you specify a product so the search results may be related to other […]
