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Explore the latest articlesTwo very useful features of Reporting Services (version 2000 and above) are snapshot execution and report history. Snapshot execution allows you to cache the report execution. Optionally, you can keep the cached reports in history, e.g. if the user wants to keep a copy of the report for historical analysis. Once a report is enabled for snapshot execution, you can generate the history snapshot by…
Read articleThe newly released CTP7 of Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals (aka DataDude) now supports bi-directional schema updates. Once you generate the scripts from your database schema, you can choose either the database or the scripts as a source of changes and commit the changes to the target. Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals requires Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition.
Read articleThe second CTP (Community Technology Preview) build of the forthcoming SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 was released today. Besides bug fixes, SP2 includes major BI features and enhancements including: Reporting Services SharePoint 2007 integration – this one is a true enzilla (enhancement Godzilla) and deserves a separate post. Suffice to say that unlike the previous Explorer and Viewer webparts, SP2 will allow you to…
Read articleMicrosoft Corp. today announced the completion of the 2007 Microsoft® Office system code and confirmed its release to manufacturing (RTM).
Read articleIn UDM, the cube space is defined by attribute hierarchies. Dimensions are just logical containers of attribute hierarchies. It will be great if the next release of SQL Server (Katmai) could expand further on the attribute nature of UDM and solve some nagging issues that modelers currently face. Let's consider an example. Say, you have Geography and Customer dimension tables (see the AdventureWorksDW database). It…
Read articleOne of the most useful features of the SSRS 2005 Report Builder is the ability to generate reports on the fly. As long as there is a navigational path in the model, the end user can click on a drillthrough-enabled attribute to see more details. This feature is officially called infinite drillthrough. Sometimes, the automatic drillthrough reports may get in the way. For example, there…
Read articleSome late code changes to the ProgressTracker CRI sample featured in my MSDN Magazine article "Jazz Up Your Data Using Custom Report Items In SQL Server Reporting Services" have introduced a bug that causes ProgressTracker to ignore changes to the CRI color and border style whent the reoprt is rendered. To fix: Open the ProgressTrackerRenderer.cs (or ProgressTrackerRenderer.vb if you use the VB.NET version) Locate the…
Read articleI learned today that my MVP award has been renewed. This will be my third year as an MVP for Windows Systems – SQL Server.
Read articleOne of the coolest SQL Server 2005 feature is .NET CLR objects. When use wisely, CLR integration can solve many nagging problems with T-SQL. For example, you cannot pass columns from an outer SQL statement to a TBF even though it returns one row. Or, for some obscure reason, you cannot use dynamic execution (EXEC statement) inside a scalar –valued function. Yet, you may need…
Read articleMicrosoft has released several cool Business Intelligence-related webcasts that target the forthcoming Office 2007. The webcasts are taken from the corresponding breakout session delivered at the Microsoft Office System Developers Conference 2006.
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