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Double Nickels on the Dime (Leaving the Reporting Services Team)

The rumors are true. I will be leaving the Reporting Service team after 7 years and SQL Server after 10 years. Here is the message that I sent to my team: It first dawned on me about 3 months ago that I had been in the same position for close to 10 years, Read More...
Posted Wednesday, December 12, 2007 10:49 PM by bwelcker | 7 Comments

Transmissions from the Satellite Heart (What's up with Report Builder?)

Hopefully, you have gotten a chance to work with the latest CTP of SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services . But if you have, you may be a bit puzzled by the report design options in the CTP. Specifically: Report Builder looks just like it did in SSRS 2005. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 11, 2007 1:33 PM by bwelcker | 5 Comments

Tribal Thunder (SharePoint White Papers Available)

After many months of working on getting them posted, I'm excited to let you know that two whitepapers on the integration between SQL Server Reporting Services and SharePoint are now available. SQL Server 2005 Integration with Microsoft SharePoint Products Read More...
Posted Monday, December 10, 2007 11:29 PM by bwelcker | 1 Comments

Everybody (Why Leave IIS?)

If you have gotten a chance to try an early build of SQL Server Reporting 2008 Reporting Services, you know that one of the changes in the product is the removal of the Internet Information Services (IIS) dependency. I have gotten some questions about Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 04, 2007 12:34 PM by bwelcker | 6 Comments

Younger Than Yesterday (ReportViewer in VS 2008)

As most of you probably know by now, Visual Studio 2008 is now available. What you might not have noticed is a new version of the ReportViewer control and local /embedded report editing experience. Included with VS 2008 are the following new features: Read More...
Posted Monday, November 26, 2007 9:04 AM by bwelcker | 4 Comments

Laser Guided Missiles (Report Localization through Parameters)

As localization is not a built-in feature for Reporting Services, people have tried a a variety of techniques for localizing reports. One technique is to use the LocID propertie to create a version of the RDL in each language. Another approach is to have Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 11, 2007 8:09 AM by bwelcker | 2 Comments

Attachment(s): Product Line Sales Localized.rdl

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 | 0 Comments
Attachment(s): Product Line Sales.rdl

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 | 1 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

At the End of Paths Taken (Modifying Where Clause when All Parameter Values are Selected)

With the return of “Select All” in Service Pack 2, all multi-value parameters allow the user to pick all of the available values. But what if you want to remove the predicate from your WHERE clause instead of generating a long set of values in the IN Read More...
Posted Saturday, May 19, 2007 1:32 PM by bwelcker | 1 Comments
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Attachment(s): Select All.rdl

Sky Blue Sky (MS BI Conference Notes)

Wow, what a show! I spent this week recovering from the first ever Microsoft Business Intelligence Conference . Conferences in downtown Seattle are always fun because I live in Seattle and don't have to cross the bridge to get to the Microsoft campus. Read More...
Posted Saturday, May 19, 2007 9:53 AM by bwelcker | 1 Comments
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