I wanted to point out two Reporting Services utilities built by our MVPs and user community that you may find very useful. BIDS Helper is a CodePlex project: http://www.codeplex.com/bidshelper In past releases, the focus has been on significantly...

If you used the CSV renderer in previous releases of Reporting Services, you might want to take another look in RS 2008. We listened to your feedback: not only does CSV rendering consume significantly less resources and is faster in most cases, the CSV...

We plan to release significantly updated and improved versions of both the Winforms and ASP.NET Report Viewer controls in Visual Studio 2010 . This is going to include the long awaited local mode support for the new report processing engine , originally...

The fourth and final technical note " Reporting Services Performance Optimizations " in our series on Building and Deploying Large Scale SQL Server Reporting Services Environments is now available on SQLCAT.com. The focus of this final technical note...

You are probably now thinking, of course my report shows the right data! Ok, but is it fast (enough)? My esteemed colleague Dean Kalanquin started blogging recently. He has been working in databases for a long time, and has gained great experience...

In a previous posting, I explained the new ExecutionLog2 view in Reporting Services 2008: how to utilize it to measure report execution performance, identify report candidates for optimizations, and verify the impact of the latter. I also included two...

As an administrator of a report server, you may occasionally ask yourself the question of what kind of reports are published in terms of their particular feature usage. For example: · Usage of Custom Report Items (CRIs) You plan to upgrade from...

There are several options for monitoring performance of a report server. The fourth article in our technical note series on performance and scalability covers information for optimizing entire report servers . Besides performance counters , analyzing...