October 2008 - Posts

Funny use of Excel
29 October 08 12:43 PM | Steve Carroll | 0 Comments   

Technorati Tags: Excel Ok... I'm going to stretch a little bit on this one. Everyone knows the power Excel brings to the table in terms of data processing and crunching numbers. Someone pointed me to a funny web-site where the band AC/DC has created a Read More...

Filed under: Excel

SQL Services Lab
27 October 08 12:54 PM | Steve Carroll | 0 Comments   

Today at the Microsoft PDC conference there was a demonstration of Reporting Services leveraging SSDS or (SQL Server Data Services AKA SQL Server in the Cloud). This is one of the many exciting areas of work being undertaken by the SQL Services Lab team. Read More...

Using Reporting Services with SharePoint as a data source
21 October 08 10:28 AM | Steve Carroll | 0 Comments   

I ran into an interesting article the other day. On more than one occasion, I've had to report against data held within a SharePoint list. Each time, I've had to go out and query the SharePoint content database directly, which for obvious reasons, is Read More...

Filed under: Reporting Services, SharePoint, SSRS