Welcome to MSDN Blogs Sign in | Join | Help

Browse by Tags

I’ve seen a few people get confused over what this error message in the Reporting Services log file indicates. This message is generated when the Reporting Services web server detects that an HTTP request has experienced a remote disconnect.  In Read More...
When rendering reports, oftentimes the application would like to minimize as much of the non-report area of the viewer control as possible.  This is easily accomplished when rendering the report through the built-in report viewer control hosted in Read More...
This is documented behavior, but we see lots of questions on it.  A good mechanism for preventing users from accidently exporting reports to a format that you don’t want (for example, you might know that the report doesn’t render quite right in a Read More...
If you are interested in Reporting Services, you probably already know about these blogs … because frankly they have more interesting things to say than me!  At any rate, just in case they happened to slip through the cracks for you , I thought I Read More...
On one of our internal mailing lists, someone was asking trying to retrieve some HTTP Headers that their internal application was submitting to the Report Server within the report.  Someone else responded with a code snippet containing the custom Read More...
One of the criteria that the report server uses to match the provided SessionID with a stored report is that the SessionID has to be provided by the same user that initially created the session. Usually, this is the case. Someone browses the report in Read More...
The SQL Customer Advisory Team just released a Technical Note comparing SQL Server Reporting Services 2008 vs. 2005 from a scale-up perspective. Its good to see that a lot of the work that we did over this release focusing on performance and scalability Read More...
When you install Reporting Services, we create a few directories: LogFiles ReportManager ReportServer RSTempFiles Most of these are fairly self explanatory. LogFiles... well we put our log files in there. ReportManager contains the Report Manager application Read More...
I'm generally not a big fan of the "link dump" style blog. However, the latest post on Joel On Software regarding web standards was too good not to share. Some choice quotes... Regarding "working around" problems in an implementation (bolded by me): And Read More...
This is a continuation of a previous posting that I made which introduced some of the memory management functionality in SSRS 2008. In this post, I wanted to dig a bit more into the details of the system in order to illuminate some of the decisions that Read More...
Ok, it has been a little while. But I have been pretty busy lately . His name is Christopher. We have also been pretty busy locking down Katmai to get CTP6 (aka known as the "February CTP") out the door and working bugs. I recommend that people head over Read More...
One of the big pushes for SSRS 2008 has been to reduce the occurrence of OutOfMemoryExceptions caused during report execution.  A lot of work has gone into making this happen throughout the report rendering stack, including significant changes in Read More...
A pretty common pattern that I see exporting of reports through URL Access using a simple hyperlink. The hyperlink usually looks something like this: <a href="http://localhost/reportserver/?/SalesData&rs:Command=Render&rs:Format=EXCEL">Sales Read More...
I guess it was an unintended vacation.  We've been busy here in the Reporting Services team.  CTP5 of SQL Server 2008 was a large milestone for us as it really started to put together all of the work we have been doing to make the processing Read More...
Today the first public release of SQL Server 2008 is shipping. Of course, Reporting Services is still there in the box. You can find general information about the release here: https://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/content/content.aspx?ContentID=5395&wa=wsignin1.0 Read More...
More Posts Next page »
 
Page view tracker