Russell Christopher's Semi-Useful BI Musings

I just finished watching an online demo of a great new Reporting Services report designer called "Radius". It's a new report designer created by the folks at 90 Degree Software, and I think it’s going to be a home run. It has a number of things going...

Here is an interesting tidbit I picked up today that concerns the Report Viewer controls. Mohammad Farooq, one of our fine support folks, noticed that the same report exported as PDF from our Report Viewer control was a different size depending on...

OK, I admit it -- For years, I really didn't like SharePoint. I thought it was silly -- SharePoint sites were things that people started on a whim (like those "blog whatchamacallits") and then quickly abandoned. Collaboration? Yeah, whatever -- just attach...

I spent this week "beta testing" a BI class that will soon be made available Microsoft partners and those who want to develop on our platform. I was quite impressed by the material and instructors -- If you hear about and/or have the opportunity to attend...

I ran into this problem a few months ago and never figured out "why". However, a few days ago I saw a discussion that clued me in. Anyway, the HTML Toolbar (the thinger that allows you to do paging, searching, exporting, etc. in your reports) is responsible...