Donald Farmer explains in this one minute video how report data feeds (“the orange button”) are simply great data sources for further analysis in PowerPivot. You get the benefits of both, Reporting Services as platform with all its reporting and management...

Chris Alton’s whitepaper on Reporting Services SharePoint Integration Troubleshooting is now available on MSDN. It provides a great set of configuration tips, diagnosis, and troubleshooting instructions. The following two older Reporting Services 2005...

A small stand-alone MSI for Report Builder 3.0, August CTP, is now available for download here: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=160384 Download packages for SQL Server 2008 R2 August CTP are available here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads...

In a previous post , I demonstrated how to use a SQL Server spatial query as source for geospatial visualizations.  ESRI Shapefile is another type of spatial data supported in Reporting Services Maps in SQL Server 2008 R2 August CTP. There are a...

SQL Server 2008 R2 August CTP includes map visualization functionality in Reporting Services , as briefly described yesterday. In this posting, I’m going to provide an introduction of how to use spatial data and Bing Maps with Reporting Services...

The August CTP download is available for MSDN and TechNet subscribers. The public download is now also active here . The Data Platform Insider blog provides an overview of what's new in this first public CTP release for SQL Server 2008 R2. If you are...

Reporting Services 2005 with Matrix In a matrix in Reporting Services 2005, accomplishing multiple or different subtotal calculations at the same grouping level was difficult, but possible. If you wanted to accomplish custom subtotal calculations in...