Late last week I stumbled into a really informative conversation around how 2005 reports are “automagically” upgraded to 2008. Thought I’d post the broad strokes here in FAQ format for everyone’s use. Thanks to Robert Bruckner who contributed most of the information! Q: If I upgrade my instance of SSRS 2005 to 2008, what happens to the reports in reportserver database? Do they get automatically upgraded? A: Reports in [ Read More ]
With the RTM of SQL 2008, it looks like a slightly older version of the add-in has been removed from microsoft.com. Unfortunately, all of the search engines (including Live) are pointing at the old, dead page. If you search for the add-in directly
The SQLCAT team just released a very interesting technical note which compares the relative “scalability goodness” of Reporting Services 2005 to 2008. You can read the article just as well as I can, but here’s the executive summary, and the results
Some people love to review logs. For an even smaller group, log reviewing becomes a compulsion. For those of you who fall into either bucket (or even for people like me who only look at logs if my server is spinning in circles like Regan from the Exo
I saw an interesting thread today I thought I would pass along. In essence, one of my colleagues wanted to know if the twenty-ish queries behind his SSRS report would all fire at the same time, or sequentially. The answer is (of course, we’re Micr
