A great new whitepaper is available which explains which Microsoft Business Intelligence tool to use in different scenarios. This one is defintely worth your time.
Archive for the ‘SQL Reporting Services’ Category
I’m slow, missing the announcment of this release by days and days. http://bit.ly/aHk5sM
I love PowerPivot. And I really, really love the visualization in the management dashboard that allows one to see which reports are active across time. I’ve thought to myself many a time, “Self, I sure like that visualization. I wish I could show
Creating Pivot collections via Reporting Services & SQL Analysis Services: Challenges and Solutions!
While watching the keynote from the recent BI Conference, I saw a demo of the Pivotviewer Extensions for Reporting Services. This is an interesting tool that will help automate creating Pivot collections. Unfortunately, even as an Microsoft FTE I can
Proof positive you need to keep writing code or your skills atrophy. This morning I needed to write some simple code to render an SSRS report as an image using the SSRS Web Services…. In VS, I added a Service Reference to ReportExecution2005.asm
Today I installed the BI Indexing Connector for the first time (neat stuff!) and pretty quickly saw a change in the way the PowerPivot gallery renders Reporting Services reports. When installing the backend component of the connector, you are inst
Yes, it is totally possible to publish a SSRS report into your PowerPivot Gallery – In fact, the gallery invites you to do so with the “New Report Builder Report” item in the PowerPivot gallery’s silverlight application. But as my buddy George O
Last week I was in a bit of a panic when Excel Services and SQL Reporting Services (MOSS Integrated) broke on nearly all of my “demo” Hyper-V images. I could publish to Excel Services, but attempting to render caused this exception to get
If you’ve been waiting for the Click Once version of Report Builder 2.0, your wait is over (as long as you don’t mind using non-RTM bits). The SP1 CTP will allow you to launch RB 1.0 or 2.0 as Click Once applications in both Native and MOSS integr
SQL Server 2008 Cumulative Update 1 was released a few weeks ago, and contains a very nice (but not promoted) improvement around PDF rendering. For those who regularly render reports which require specific fonts and character sets (for example, tr
