Scenario: You have an Internet-facing web application that uses the Visual Studio ReportViewer control to render reports. The application takes care of authenticating the users. You want all report requests […]
Don Demsak pointed out another Silverlight-based control from Infragistics, which is currently in a CTP phase. There are actually two controls: XamWebDataChart and XamWebPivotGrid. I played a bit with it […]
Analysis Services leads the OLAP server market and it should be your platform of choice for historical and trend reporting. In the spirit of the season, here is my Top […]
Reporting Services has gone a long way for the past five years and it’s getting better. In the spirit of the season, here is my Reporting Services Top 10 Wish […]
In case you’ve missed this, the Pivot era has begun. After Excel PivotTable and PivotChart, we’ll have PowerPivot in SQL Server 2008 R2. But Pivot evolves… A co-worker showed me […]
Now that I’ve got my copy and read it, I can say a few things about the book Expert Cube Development with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services by Chris […]
R2 brings several SharePoint enhancements, including: Support for multiple SharePoint zones – Previously, SSRS supported access from SharePoint URLs in the default zone, as I explained before. Support for the […]
The major new R2 feature that debuts in CTP 3 (November CTP) of SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services is report parts. A report part is a fragment of a […]
Microsoft released Cumulative Update Package 5 for SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1 (build 10.00.2746). Among other things, if fixes an SSRS issue with printing and conditional visibility of recursive groups […]
Besides indicators, R2 adds sparklines and data bars to the arsenal of data visualization features. Sparklines are small graphics embedded in a context of words, numbers, and images. They help […]
