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Among the many features that are compatible between Linq To SQL on desktop Windows and on...
Date: 05/27/2011
Last November I decided to leave the SQL Reporting Services team and join the Windows Phone...
Date: 05/24/2011
For IT administration of a Report Server instance, you will occasionally need to use WMI. We...
Date: 05/26/2010
I’ve seen a few people get confused over what this error message in the Reporting Services log file...
Date: 06/01/2009
When rendering reports, oftentimes the application would like to minimize as much of the non-report...
Date: 03/23/2009
This is documented behavior, but we see lots of questions on it. A good mechanism for...
Date: 02/05/2009
On one of our internal mailing lists, someone was asking trying to retrieve some HTTP Headers that...
Date: 01/09/2009
One of the criteria that the report server uses to match the provided SessionID with a stored report...
Date: 08/08/2008
The SQL Customer Advisory Team just released a Technical Note comparing SQL Server Reporting...
Date: 07/10/2008
When you install Reporting Services, we create a few directories: LogFiles ReportManager...
Date: 06/30/2008
I'm generally not a big fan of the "link dump" style blog. However, the latest post on Joel On...
Date: 03/17/2008
This is a continuation of a previous posting that I made which introduced some of the memory...
Date: 03/11/2008
Ok, it has been a little while. But I have been pretty busy lately. His name is Christopher. We have...
Date: 03/11/2008
One of the big pushes for SSRS 2008 has been to reduce the occurrence of OutOfMemoryExceptions...
Date: 12/10/2007
A pretty common pattern that I see exporting of reports through URL Access using a simple hyperlink....
Date: 10/24/2007
I guess it was an unintended vacation. We've been busy here in the Reporting Services...
Date: 09/11/2007
Today the first public release of SQL Server 2008 is shipping. Of course, Reporting Services is...
Date: 06/04/2007
EMF rendering in Reporting Services has an interesting history. When SSRS first shipped, we did not...
Date: 05/24/2007
I was poking around some other SSRS blogs from folks here on the product team, and I found this post...
Date: 03/29/2007
Reporting Services uses a temporary database for storage of objects which are, well, temporary. For...
Date: 03/21/2007
The posts about things dealing with rsExecutionNotFound seem to be what people find most interesting...
Date: 02/01/2007
I'm in the middle of reinstalling Visual Studio, and so I thought I would share an interesting story...
Date: 01/31/2007
From Miguel de Icaza's blog: https://tirania.org/blog/archive/2007/Jan-17.html I had no idea that the...
Date: 01/18/2007
This question came across one of our internal discussion aliases, and it wasn't the first time I had...
Date: 01/15/2007
You know the one. You try to render a report and you end up hitting the dreaded "An internal catalog...
Date: 12/05/2006
Recently I have had a couple of people send questions directly to me via the "Email" tab asking me...
Date: 12/05/2006
The SSRS Web Server supports two basic protocols, SOAP and URL Access. The SOAP API is great for...
Date: 11/17/2006
SQL Server Express with Advanced Services SP1 shipped a while ago and it includes Reporting...
Date: 10/30/2006
Reporting Services has a notion of a user session. This is not the same as ASP.Net's notion of a...
Date: 10/11/2006
rsReportNotReady is only supposed to be thrown when a report is configured to run from an execution...
Date: 08/30/2006
The Windows Live folks just released Windows Live Writer. It's a tool which runs on your desktop and...
Date: 08/13/2006
Steve Jones recently interviewed me for a regular column he has on sqlservercentral.com. Check it...
Date: 08/03/2006
The answer, is quite simply "No." Someone shot a post from Google Groups through my inbox this...
Date: 06/30/2006
Windows Authentication is good stuff, and rightly so many people are using it in their Reporting...
Date: 03/16/2006
Couple of changes since we shipped SQL Server 2005. I have moved from the Relational Engine team...
Date: 01/25/2006
https://blogs.msdn.com/alanga/archive/2006/01/25/517675.aspxAlan is a good friend of mine that works...
Date: 01/25/2006
The Performance Optimizations for XML Data Type in SQL Server 2005 whitepaper written by Shankar...
Date: 01/05/2006
Usually there are a couple of scenarios in which you want to take XML data and convert it into a...
Date: 12/15/2005
Ian Jose, an Architect here in SQL Engine working on the Query Optimizer, has just started a blog....
Date: 11/10/2005
XML Schema has an interesting feature where you can define a value as being "fixed". The meaning...
Date: 11/01/2005
https://microsoftgadgets.com/default.aspxThe "gadgets" folks have updated their blog to include some...
Date: 11/01/2005
A little while ago I threw out this quiz regarding XML and SQL Server 2005's full text search...
Date: 10/17/2005
Jinghao (my manager here in the SQL Server Engine team) has started up a blog about SQL Server. His...
Date: 10/17/2005
This one is making the rounds here at work. In case you don't recognize the name, he is the guy who...
Date: 10/04/2005
Using SQL Server's fulltext engine is a great way to optimize your XQuery statements which use...
Date: 09/30/2005
The XQuery/XPath 2.0 functions and operators specification defines a function called “contains.” It...
Date: 09/21/2005
https://blogs.msdn.com/weix/archive/2005/09/13/464907.aspx Wei mentions a couple of optimizations...
Date: 09/13/2005
People used to write "Hello, World!" applications in order to demo new languages and technologies....
Date: 09/13/2005
This might be long, so I am going to cut to the chase right now. If you are using predicates which...
Date: 09/09/2005