Hi friends, I'm really happy to say that SQL Server 2008 was released on Wednesday! This is by far our highest quality and most feature rich release, and I'm looking very forward to hearing any and all feedback about the product. Here is some more information...

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I recently wrote a whitepaper highlighting a great tool by one of our partners: SoftArtisans OfficeWriter. OfficeWriter is a design tool and custom rendering extension that lets you use Excel and Word documents as report layout templates. This differs...

Many Reporting Services users ask this question: "I'm rendering to a physical page format (PDF, Image, Print) and for some reason a blank page gets inserted between all of the other pages in the report. Thank you, Reporting Services, for the free pages...

One issue that continually vexes users of the SQL Server Reporting Services Excel rendering extension is that of merged cells in the Excel output. Merged cells can be a problem because Excel's sort functionality is very particular about the way cells...

Hello, I'm Chris Baldwin. I'm a Program Manager on the SQL Server Reporting Services team. I primarily work on the report rendering area of the product where we're all very hard at work making sure that your reports look the way you want them to and behave...