Nevron Charting for Reporting Services
Reporting Services charting not enough? Nevron Software has released a Nevron Charting for Reporting Services which I haven’t personally tested yet. According to the vendor, here are the major features […]
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Applied Reporting Services 2008 Online Training Class with Teo Lachev
Some of you shared with us your frustration with training budgets cut in half. Many of you couldn’t attend industry conferences this year. Many of you asked how we can […]
Cumulative Update 3 for SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1
Microsoft released today a Cumulative Update 3 for SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1. Among other things it fixes the Report Builder 2.0 ClickOnce deployment issue on x64 which I […]
Excel Page Numbering Issue
An issue was reported about page numbering and exporting reports to Excel with Reporting Services 2008. Specifically, if the page header or footer uses a placeholder for the page number, […]
Google – The Best Thing that Ever Happened to Microsoft
On a different subject, you’ve probably heard the news: Google will release an operating system called Google Chrome OS which will challenge Windows and instill fear into the Microsoft camp. […]
How to Test SSRS MDX Queries in SQL Server Management Studio
I often need to capture an MDX query that a report sends to Analysis Services and execute it in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS). I usually do this to understand […]
Maintaining State in Reporting Services 2008
Sometimes, more advanced reporting needs may require maintaining state using custom code. Recently I had to implement a rather involved report consisting of two sections: a detail section that used […]
Suppressing Auto-generation of MDX Parameter Datasets
There is an unfortunate issue with the MDX Query Designer in SSRS 2008 Report Designer and Report Builder 2.0 where changing the main dataset overwrites the parameter datasets. This is […]
Transmissions from TechEd USA 2009 (Day 3)
Today was a long day. I started by attending the Richard Tkachuk’s A First Look at Large-Scale Data Warehousing in Microsoft SQL Server Code Name “Madison”. Those of you familiar […]
Transmissions from TechEd USA 2009 (Day 2)
I started the day by attending the Donald Farmer and Daniel Yu’s session “Creating the Right Cubes for Microsoft Excel and Excel Services” hoping that I’ll get a sneak preview […]
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