PerformancePoint Blog » SQL Reporting Services

Problem: MOSS Alternate Access Mapping (AAM) & PerformancePoint Reporting Services Reports

Russell — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 15:25:47 +0000

(This refers to MOSS 2010 and PPS V2) Today I needed to make an internal PPS demo available via the internet, so some alternate access mapping within SharePoint was in order. I added an AAM entry for my default web site, essentially converting http://foo into http://demoname.domain.com inside MOSS. When I fired up the dashboard via http://demoname.domain.com, my analytical grids/charts, scorecards and filters worked correctly. However, the PPS reports which are [ Read More ]

Creating Pivot collections via Reporting Services & SQL Analysis Services: Challenges and Solutions!

Russell — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 12:35:32 +0000

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

Can’t find ReportExecutionService?

Russell — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 12:31:37 +0000

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

Click Once Report Builder 2.0 now in SQL Server 2008 SP1 CTP

Russell — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:41:45 +0000

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 2008 Cumulative Update 1 – Something nice for SQL Reporting Lovers

Russell — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:42:56 +0000

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

Reporting Services 2008 Upgrade FAQs

Russell — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:16:47 +0000

Late last week I stumbled into a really informative conversation around how 2005 reports are "automagically" upgraded to 2008. Thought I'd post the br

Where did the Reporting Services 2008 Add-in for SharePoint go?

Russell — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:59:15 +0000

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

Proof positive that SSRS 2008 is superior to SSRS 2005

Russell — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:47:41 +0000

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

SQL Reporting Services: What does that “Thread pool pressure” warning mean?

Russell — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:22:19 +0000

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

SQL Reporting Services: The report server installation is not initialized. (rsReportServerNotActivated)

Russell — Wed, 28 May 2008 12:33:41 +0000

Yesterday, my buddy Amit Panchal and I were trying to get an x64 instance of SSRS joined to reporting farm, and had a bear of a time. Because of issues I won't get into here, we were trying to initialize the server in the "classic" way - meaning w