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Monday, November 28, 2005 5:47 PM

Feature Pack for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 - November 2005

Overview The Feature Pack is a collection of standalone install packages that provide additional value for SQL Server 2005. It includes: Latest versions of redistributable components for SQL Server 2005 Latest versions of add-on providers for SQL Server
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Friday, August 19, 2005 11:24 AM

Reporting Services: Calling an aspx page from a report and passing a parameter

Sudhi recently asked me how to call an aspx page from a report and pass a parameter held in a textbox, or other control. My solution is: Drag a textbox control on to the report and enter the value "2005/07/28/408325" (without the the quotes) in to it.
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Tuesday, August 16, 2005 11:49 AM

SQL Server Reporting Services Report Packs - looking for suggestions

when I was over in the US recently, I attended a 'Bill Baker and team unplugged' session, (Bill is the GM for SQL Server Business Intelligence). Reporting Services Report packs came up as a topic for discussion. The team asked the audience if the Report
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Thursday, August 04, 2005 3:08 AM

Letter from America 3 - Mischievous reports and feeding the 5000

After all my messing around yesterday, I've decided to create this post in pocket word. I attended a securty session yesterday and was reminded of an issue that can send DBAs scuttling from the room when they learn of it's presence, the 'trojan report'.
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Monday, July 18, 2005 11:16 AM

How Do You Deploy SQL Server Reporting Services?

A colleague of mine in the States, Rob Caron, is very keen to learn how our customers are deploying Reporting Services; specifically with respect to IIS. When we launched Reporting Services (RS) it was all too easy to say it was a ‘free’ addition to the
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Thursday, July 14, 2005 9:35 PM

Reporting Services: Two New (Free) Report Packs Released for Sharepoint and Axapta

Good news for the chap I met on the 'Ask the Experts' desk at TechEd, who was contemplating jumping through all sorts of hurdles to create reports form Sharepoint data. I couldn't really get my head round the (Sharepoint) problems he foresaw, but I was
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Tuesday, June 28, 2005 10:22 PM

The QFE for SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services Service Pack 2 is now available.

The QFE for SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services Service Pack 2 is now available. The QFE is a generally distributed release that can be obtained from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=7FFE50D4-AFF8-4C1E-9609-6798190C2D58&displaylang=en
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Tuesday, June 28, 2005 1:40 PM

SQL Server Reporting Services: Custom colour in charts

A frequently asked question is, 'how does one customise the colours in a chart?' Below is a link to a blog post from Brian Welcker, which is actually a post on how to overcome the encumberence of the chart legend when it takes up too much space on a chart.
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Wednesday, June 22, 2005 5:28 PM

Querying and Reporting on Report Execution Log Data

Well I didn't realise, or maybe I just plain forgot, that these reports and the necessary support infrastrucuture come with Reporting Services under the extras folder on the CD - all useful stuff for report heads. Longest Running Reports Most Executed
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Tuesday, June 14, 2005 10:21 AM

Reporting Services: How to stop IE striping out leading spaces in report data values

Reporting Services: How to stop IE striping out leading spaces in report data values: My thanks to Russell Christopher and Mike Schetterer who recently discussed the problem that IE will strip out leading spaces from data in a report. The solution: you
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Tuesday, May 31, 2005 12:42 PM

Keep up-to-date with knowledge base articles coming out of Microsoft

I am very grateful to Andy Steer of Contemporary Plc for this useful tip. To keep up-to-date with knowledge base articles coming out of Microsoft, check out this web page containing RSS feeds for all Microsoft products: http://support.microsoft.com/selectindex/?target=rs
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Thursday, May 26, 2005 2:30 PM

SQL Server Reporting Services: How to do an aggregate, SUM(Field), and display it as a % of the total for a Table or Matrix column

SQL Server Reporting Services: How to do an aggregate, SUM(Field), and display it as a % of the total for a Table or Matrix column To do this we have to take advantage of the fact that the SUM function, and indeed all aggregate functions, have an optional
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Wednesday, May 11, 2005 10:45 PM

Webcast with Proclarity

If you were unable to connct to our webcast with Proclarity last month then please have another go, here is the corresponding missive from marketing: Last month you registered to attend the TechNet Webcast ‘Analysing and Presenting SQL Server Data with
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