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Get an overview and the latest information on Reporting Services 2008 at the MSDN aggregation page for Reporting Services ! Research and ask questions on the updated MSDN forums for Reporting Services . Important downloads for Reporting Services: Report
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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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At the traditional annual “BI Power Hour” sessions, several teams that contribute to the Microsoft Business Intelligence platform show off their technology in a fun way. It is about demonstrating, in perhaps unusual ways, of how business intelligence
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Service Pack 1 for SQL Server 2008 is now available for download . The service pack is primarily a roll-up of Cumulative Updates 1, 2, and 3 and minor fixes made in response to requests reported through the SQL Server community. While there are no new
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Tablix enables the separation of data groupings and layout header areas. A stepped layout can help with horizontal spacing, because nested groups can then share the same horizontal space, which was previously not possible in a matrix layout.
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Just a quick post to reference two interesting reads about designing dynamic drilldown in reports: Sean Boon blogged about an approach to implement drilldown on charts with Reporting Services when Analysis Services is used as the data source. Chris Webb
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Tablix is the new underlying flexible data region and grouping structure introduced in Reporting Services 2008. Among other features, it enables asymmetric layouts, as demonstrated in the thumbnail screenshot below. If you use a list, table, matrix, chart,
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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 wanted to give some props to MVP Grant Paisley who has setup a site called Report Surfer , where you can directly view, share, and download sample Reporting Services reports. I met Grant a few months back when he visited Redmond. He was very interested
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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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If you used the CSV renderer in previous releases of Reporting Services, you might want to take another look in RS 2008. We listened to your feedback: not only does CSV rendering consume significantly less resources and is faster in most cases, the CSV
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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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