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• Tap, Tap, Tap – SSWUG Conference Starts Today

  The SSWUG Ultimate Virtual Conference starts this morning.  Are you planning to take advantage of this opportunity?  The Rock Star speakers are waiting in the channels, anticipating you every move.  But, have you registered? It’s not too Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 21, 2009 6:00 AM by Jason | 0 Comments Filed under: SQL RS, SQL 2005, SSIS, SQL 2008, SQLServerSyndication, Conference

• Are You Registered?

  It starts next week,the SSWUG Ultimate Virtual Conference on October 21-24 .  This is an excellent opportunity to get the benefits of heading to a conference full of Rock Star speakers while being able to view the content from the comforts of home Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 14, 2009 9:00 AM by Jason | 1 Comments Filed under: SQL RS, SQL 2005, SSIS, SQL 2008, SQLServerSyndication, Conference

• Report Manager in Windows 7

  While working on some questions for a project I am working on, I ran into an issue with Report Manager today.  I haven’t had the pleasure of running into this issue in a while and thought I would share the issue and the resolution because it affects Read More... Posted Monday, September 07, 2009 7:00 AM by Jason | 6 Comments Filed under: SQL RS, SQLServerSyndication

• Analyzing Report Execution Time

  One of the reasons I was digging around to find out how many reports were being executed for each folder the other day was that there were some subscription issues at the client.  The goal was to get a break down of when reports were being executed Read More... Posted Friday, July 31, 2009 7:08 AM by Jason | 0 Comments Filed under: SQL RS, SQL 2005, SQL 2008, Performance Tuning, SQLServerSyndication

• Finding Number of Reports Executed By Folder

  While working with a client a couple weeks back, I was asked to determine the count of reports that were being executed under each folder off the root directory on the Reporting Services instance.  Each of the folders off the root directory represented Read More... Posted Thursday, July 30, 2009 8:00 AM by Jason | 0 Comments Filed under: SQL RS, SQL 2005, SQL 2008, SQLServerSyndication

• I Didn’t Receive My Subscription

  Ever have a Reporting Services (SSRS) subscription that didn’t fire off as you thought it should? Or was SQL Agent offline when subscriptions should have been fired? Or did you just create a subscription and want to find out if it’s been configured properly? Read More... Posted Thursday, May 07, 2009 9:25 AM by Jason | 0 Comments Filed under: SQL RS, SQL 2005, SQL 2008, SQLServerSyndication

• Where'd Report Designer Preview go!?

  If you are like me and have been toying around with Report Designer (aka Report Builder 2.0), you may have noticed that it disappeared with RC0 and RTM. Unfortunately, the RC0 version is the only version currently available and even more unfortuantely, Read More... Posted Monday, August 18, 2008 4:57 PM by Jason | 0 Comments Filed under: SQL RS, SQL 2008

• Are You Sure You're Using the Right Query?

  I found a nice little feature in SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) today. Through the expression "=dataset!<dataset name>.commandtext" the query executed by the dataset can be returned to the report. There is also a rewrittencommandtext function Read More... Posted Friday, August 15, 2008 3:26 PM by Jason | 0 Comments Filed under: SQL RS, SQL 2005, SQL 2008

• Scripting Out Reports

  While trying to deploy reports a while back I was lamenting the process of manually creating scripts to load reports to the production. This is, of course, the better than using Visual Studio to deploy reports, since it is possible that the RDL in your Read More... Posted Thursday, September 13, 2007 11:56 AM by Jason | 0 Comments Filed under: SQL RS

• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 CTP 4

  If you hadn't seen it, Microsoft release CTP 4 of SQL Server 2008 as a VHD last Friday. Check it out and start enjoying the the new features. I am extremely hyped about the changes being implemented on Reporting Services. But I am also in deep mourning Read More... Posted Thursday, September 06, 2007 10:29 AM by Jason | 0 Comments Filed under: SQL RS, SQL 2008

• Reporting Services Resources

  I honestly could have sworn up and down the church aisle that I'd posted something in these a few months ago. Obviously, wires got crossed either in the real world or the nether of my mind. But long story short, here are a couple great resources to use Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 22, 2007 3:19 PM by Jason | 0 Comments Filed under: SQL RS

• Identify Reporting Services Version and Edition

  While trying to identify the reporting services edition installed on a server today, I found quite a few ways to identify both the edition and version of reporting services. And now they are listed below from various news group threads for your reading Read More... Posted Monday, August 20, 2007 3:27 PM by Jason | 2 Comments Filed under: SQL RS

• SQL Server 2005 Performance Dashboard Reports

  There's a new download from Microsoft that I am a little excited to take a look at... <begin fanfar> <queue flashy lights> The... SQL Server 2005 Performance Dashboard Reports I've downloaded them but haven't had a chance to really look at Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 14, 2007 1:22 PM by Jason | 0 Comments Filed under: SQL RS, SQL 2005

• Monitoring Report Performance

  Nothing really new with the link I am posting today. If you've looked at the samples included with SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services you've likely seen the Execution Log Reports . And for those that weren't aware, these reports are a nice little addition Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 13, 2007 12:06 PM by Jason | 0 Comments Filed under: SQL RS

• XML Datasources

  A "neato' technical article from last fall on using XML and Web Services as data sources in SQL Server Reporting Services . Not sure how I feel about the XML but I had been wondering how to access certain values in SSRS in a web.config type fashion. For Read More... Posted Monday, March 12, 2007 2:25 PM by Jason | 0 Comments Filed under: SQL RS