SQL Server 2008 was released to manufacturing (RTM) today (see press release ). You can download it on MSDN Subscriber Downloads and TechNet Subscriber Downloads . Either search for SQL Server 2008 or navigate under Servers then to SQL Server 2008...

You may have heard by now that the report processing engine of Reporting Services 2008 works significantly different underneath the covers, compared to previous releases. While I plan to dive into more technical details in future postings, I wanted to...

A Reporting Services report can contain multiple dataset definitions. By default, datasets are executed in parallel . Now, in some situations you may not want this parallel query execution behavior - for example: Your data source system cannot handle...

Report Builder 2.0 RC1 is now available on Microsoft Download Center. Use this link for download . RC1 delivers improvements in the following areas compared to RC0: Easy to use wizards for creating table, matrix and chart data regions. Support...

If you had Visual Studio 2008 RTM (or a Beta of SP1) already installed on your machine, the installation of SQL Server 2008 requires to install the final SP1 build of Visual Studio 2008 as a prerequisite (explained in more detail here ). The good news...