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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
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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 RS
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In a previous post I showed how to quickly find reports that use custom report items (CRIs). The same idea can be applied to subreports as well. As an administrator of a report server, you may access the catalog database directly. Keep in mind that any
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Have you ever wondered what API calls Report Manager or Management Studio are performing to accomplish certain operations? Teo Lachev’s RsTracer helps answer these questions. The tool is available as a CodePlex project and shows the APIs that
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I recently provided a tip to my Australian colleague David Lean to successfully solve a small report design challenge with tables and charts that use conditional formatting. The specific goal was to dynamically calculate and assign a color shade so that
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I wanted to point out two Reporting Services utilities built by our MVPs and user community that you may find very useful. BIDS Helper is a CodePlex project: http://www.codeplex.com/bidshelper In past releases, the focus has been on significantly enhancing
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The fourth and final technical note " Reporting Services Performance Optimizations " in our series on Building and Deploying Large Scale SQL Server Reporting Services Environments is now available on SQLCAT.com. The focus of this final technical note
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You are probably now thinking, of course my report shows the right data! Ok, but is it fast (enough)? My esteemed colleague Dean Kalanquin started blogging recently. He has been working in databases for a long time, and has gained great experience and
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In a previous posting, I explained the new ExecutionLog2 view in Reporting Services 2008: how to utilize it to measure report execution performance, identify report candidates for optimizations, and verify the impact of the latter. I also included two
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As an administrator of a report server, you may occasionally ask yourself the question of what kind of reports are published in terms of their particular feature usage. For example: · Usage of Custom Report Items (CRIs) You plan to upgrade from RS 2005
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Reporting Services 2008 RS 2008 includes full support for Teradata-based report models. You can create and use semantic models based off Teradata similar to how Reporting Services already supports this for SQL Server, Analysis Services, and Oracle. Furthermore,
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Over the past few months, I contributed to a series of technical notes by my esteemed colleagues Denny and Lukasz on http://sqlcat.com/ . The technical notes provide guidance on how to build, deploy, and optimize large scale SQL Server Reporting Services
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One of the changes we included in Cumulative Update #1 for SQL Server 2008 ( CU1 download link ) is automatic full font embedding and subsetting for Unicode characters in Reporting Services 2008 PDF rendering . While a similar code change is now available
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In a previous posting, I discussed dataset execution order in Reporting Services. In this posting, I will provide a few tips for situations where you or your report users are wondering what is the actual query executed by Reporting Services. While you
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One of the questions that I answer somewhat frequently, is about recursive groupings in Reporting Services and how to utilize parent-child hierarchies from an Analysis Services cube. The attachment of this posting contains a small report example I put
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