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SQL Server 2008 R2 November CTP – What’s New In Reporting Services?
The November CTP download is available for MSDN and TechNet subscribers. The public download is available here . The feature pack download is now also available and includes Report Builder 3.0 as well as the RS add-ins for SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint Read More...
RS Maps with Spatial Data and Bing Maps
SQL Server 2008 R2 August CTP includes map visualization functionality in Reporting Services , as briefly described yesterday. In this posting, I’m going to provide an introduction of how to use spatial data and Bing Maps with Reporting Services Maps. Read More...
SQL Server 2008 R2 August CTP – What’s New In Reporting Services?
The August CTP download is available for MSDN and TechNet subscribers. The public download is now also active here . The Data Platform Insider blog provides an overview of what's new in this first public CTP release for SQL Server 2008 R2. If you are Read More...
Multi-Player Gaming in RS (aka BI Power Hour 2008)
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 Read More...
Report Surfer
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 Read More...
Custom Report Item
Custom Report Item in Reporting Services 2005 This server extensibility feature introduced in Reporting Services 2005 (RS 2005) provides the ability to develop custom report items for embedding in reports. Examples of resources available that provide Read More...
RDL 2008 Specification
Our documentation team made the latest RDL specification available on the Reporting Services site: http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/reporting.aspx The 2008 RDL specification is available as XPS and as PDF document. Older versions of the RDL Read More...
Trendlines (Calculated Series) in Reporting Services Charts
One of the new chart features in Reporting Services 2008 is the ability to add chart series calculated from another series. This is accomplished by right-clicking an existing series (data point value) and selecting "Add Calculated Series ..." from the Read More...
Charts with Dynamic Height or Width based on Categories/Data
You may have been in this situation before - you designed a chart based on a particular dataset and everything looks great. However, later the data volume increases, or new categories dynamically show up in your data source, and there is not enough horizontal/vertical Read More...
Fields in Page Header
One of the small new features in Reporting Services 2008 that has not been widely publicized, is the ability to directly reference dataset fields and dataset aggregations from expressions in the page header and page footer. You can accomplish this by simply dragging a dataset field directly into the page header/footer area of the report, or by manually writing expressions. Read More...
Using Analysis Services Parent-Child Hierarchies in Reports
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 Read More...
Expression-Based Dynamic Drillthrough Actions
The Reporting Services demo during the " BI Power Hour " session at the Microsoft Business Intelligence Conference was a lot of fun and well received. My colleague Carolyn Chau did great on stage presenting the demo we had put together. In my chalk talk Read More...
Using Group Variables in Reporting Services 2008 for Custom Aggregation
Introduction SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services (SSRS 2008) features an on-demand report processing engine . This on-demand architecture has a number of key advantages over the processing engine design that existed in previous major releases. The most Read More...
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