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June 2007 - Posts

Marquee Moon (Field References in Page Headers and Footers)

One of the questions that I get often is about putting database fields in their SSRS report page header and/or footer. Note that putting fields in the page header and footer is not the same as putting a data region in these sections. Because of the impact Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 19, 2007 11:57 PM by bwelcker | 1 Comments
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Personal Best (The BI Survey)

Some of you may be familiar with Nigel Pendse’s OLAP Report . This year, the survey is broadening to include more BI functionality and is being renamed "The BI Survey". If you have some time, take a moment and fill out the survey . We (and the other BI Read More...
Posted Saturday, June 16, 2007 12:26 PM by bwelcker | 2 Comments

When I Was Born for the 7th Time (Thoughts from TechEd)

Last week I attended TechEd in Orlando, Florida . Here are my thoughts on the event. This year was TechEd's 15th anniversary. I realized on the way down that I was attending my 10th consecutive TechEd. When I started attending, TechEd was about 2,000 Read More...
Posted Saturday, June 16, 2007 11:46 AM by bwelcker | 1 Comments

Gone Glimmering (Fix for Visual Studio Hang)

I am very happy to announce that a fix has been released for the notorious "Visual Studio cannot shut down because a modal dialog is open" bug. I know that many of you are getting this daily when using the SQL Server 2005 Report Designer. You can read Read More...
Posted Friday, June 08, 2007 2:48 PM by bwelcker | 3 Comments
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Perfect Prescription (OneNote is Really Cool)

I think that you might be surprised how long it takes people within Microsoft to adopt new software. While there are some software that we are "strongly encouraged" to adopt <g>, what applications we use on a day to day basis is generally up to Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 06, 2007 2:56 PM by bwelcker | 2 Comments
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Dreamy (Reporting Services at TechEd)

Unlike previous years, I decided not to attend the first day of TechEd. This means that I missed BobMu's keynote but you can read about the details from many of the TechEd bloggers . If you read the press release from TechEd today, we announced the official Read More...
Posted Monday, June 04, 2007 9:28 AM by bwelcker | 2 Comments

Tago Mago (New Version of Radius)

I wanted to give some props to my friends at 90 Degree Software (Vancouver, Canada) on the latest release of their report authoring tool, Radius . Radius is a report design tool based on the Reporting Services Report Definition Langauge (RDL). If you Read More...
Posted Saturday, June 02, 2007 10:12 PM by bwelcker | 1 Comments
 
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