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SQL Server 2005 Samples and Sample Databases April 2006 Refresh
April 20, 2006 / 2 Comments »
Download the April 2006 refresh of the SQL Server 2005 samples and databases.
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SQL Server 2005 SP1 Released
April 20, 2006 / No Comments »
SQL Server 2005 SP1 was released yesterday. Kudos to Microsoft for releasing SP1 on time! As the conventional wisdom goes, one should postpone deployment of production applications until the first service pack has been released. Well, that time has come to pass. May your SQL Server 2005-based solutions be successful!
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SQL Server 2005 SP1 Due in a Couple Weeks
April 13, 2006 / No Comments »
Microsoft is planning to ship the SP1 version of SQL Server 2005 by the end of the month, according to an April 6 letter that Microsoft senior vice president Paul Flessner, wrote to customers. In the same letter, Paul Flessner announces a new SQL Server Edition, the SQL Server Evywhere Edition, that will be used for occasionally connected applications.
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Microsoft to Acquire ProClarity
April 5, 2006 / No Comments »
It looks like the OLAP browser I've been dreaming about may not that be that far away. I hope that ProClarity will make make their browser more modular so it can be embedded in Windows Forms and web applications. Here is another interesting link about the acquisition.
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Implementing Data Security in a Report Model
March 18, 2006 / 1 Comment »
Bob Meyers (the mastermind behind the RS 2005 Report Builder) tells us how to implement horizontal data filtering in the Report Builder model – a topic which is not covered by the product documentation. I highly recommend Bob’s blog.for more Report Builder insights.
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SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 1 CTP Available
March 18, 2006 / No Comments »
Microsoft has released a Community Techology Preview (CTP) build of SQL Server 2005 SP1. The release date of the final (RTM) bits of SP1 is not announced yet but it shouldn't be that far away (most likely within a month or so).
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Public CTP of SQL Server Express To Be Available Soon
March 16, 2006 / No Comments »
Today, Microsoft announced that SQL Server Express Advanced will be available publicly instead of distributed as a private beta. The CTP (Community Technology Preview) build could be downloaded here (link will be live soon). You can post question and comments in the SQL Express MSDN Forum or enter bugs and feature requests on the MSDN Product Feedback Center.
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Prologika Forums to be Upgraded Tonight
March 9, 2006 / No Comments »
Telligent has done it again! Community Server 2.0 is out and it's too sleek to ignore. I am planning to upgrade Prologika Forums to CS 2.0 tonight. If all is well, tomorrow Prologika Forums will have a facelift and more features. I hope the upgrade process won’t last too long and won’t cause service interruptions.
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Phantom Data Extensions
March 7, 2006 / No Comments »
There are two “shy” data extensions that come with RS 2005 but you won’t see when you create a data source. The first one (SSIS data extension) enables interesting integration scenarios with SQL Server 2005 Integration Services. It allows you to author reports that use data generated by running an Integration Services (SSIS) package. The second one is the SAP data extension for integrating SSRS with mySAP Business Suite. By default, these extensions are disabled and commented in the rsreportserver.config file:<!-- <Extension Name="SSIS" Type="Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.DtsClient.DtsConnection,Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.DtsClient, Version=9.0.242.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=89845dcd8080cc91"/> --><!-- <Extension Name="SAP" Type="Microsoft.Adapter.SAP.SAPConnection,Microsoft.Adapter.SAP.SAPProvider, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35"/> --> Why are these extensions doomed to obscurity, you may ask? The reason is that they have setup dependencies. It could have been nice if the SQL Server 2005 setup program could verify these dependencies (e.g. if SSIS is selected for install) and enables the extensions accordingly so the users know about their existence but this...
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Where Is My Cartridge?
March 5, 2006 / 1 Comment »
A little known fact about the SSAS data architecture is that it uses “cartridges” to communicate with the data source. In brief, a cartridge is a XSL stylesheet that defines capabilities of a data source, as well as the rules for optimizing the SQL statements for relational querying and writing. SSAS 2005 ships with set of cartridges for Jet, SQL 70, SQL 2000, Oracle, Teradata, and DB2, which can be found in the \Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.2\OLAP\bin\Cartridges folder. Vendors can plug in (server restart required) cartridges for other data sources if needed. One gotcha is when the UDM uses multiple data sources in a single data source view. This scenario requires that the primary data source must be SQL Server because behind the scenes the server uses the SQL Server-specific OPENROWSET statement to extract data from the secondary data source(s). The problem with this approach is that it effectively bypasses...
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