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Five Things SSRS Should Drop

David Leibowitz — Tue, 11 May 2010 17:38:03 +0000

SQL Reporting Services is great...but some things just *have* to go!

HOW TO: Force Users To Select a Perspective From a Report Model in Report Builder

Tech Support — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 05:57:40 +0000

In SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services you can Increase your Model reusability and development productivity by creating Perspectives. You then limit the usage of a Model only to those Perspectives, rather than the huge monster views.

FIX: An unexpected error has occurred, Web Parts Maintenance Page

Tech Support — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 05:46:27 +0000

Fix for the following error: An unexpected error has occurred. Web Parts Maintenance Page: If you have permission, you can use this page to temporarily close Web Parts or remove personal settings. For more information, contact your site administrator.

HOW TO: Add Report Server Content Types to a Library (Reporting Services in SharePoint Integrated Mode)

Tech Support — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 05:28:07 +0000

Reporting Services provides predefined content types that are used to manage shared data source (.rsds) files, report models (.smdl), and Report Builder report definition (.rdl) files. Adding a Report Builder Report, Report Model, and Report Data Source content type to a library enables the New command so that you can create new documents of that type.

Monitor and Analyze Multiple SSRS Instances with SQLScrubs

Tech Support — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:56:24 +0000

The following article details how to analyze and monitor multiple SQL Reporting Services instances with SQLScrubs. SQLScrubs Community Edition is available for free and can be found on CodePlex. All extraction for instance related data is managed by the SSIS package and stored in the datawarehouse provided. You can analyze in your own reports, enhance some of the free reports to do this for you, or simply upgrade to the Premium Edition of SCRUBS for SQL Server 2008 which provides over 15 additional reports with built-in analysis by instance.

Reporting Services 2008 URL Parameters for SharePoint Integrated Mode

admin — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 05:20:20 +0000

Passing URL report parameters directly to a rep

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SQL Server Reporting Services 2008 Gantt Charts

David Leibowitz — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:11:03 +0000

A workaround for Gantt charts in SSRS with a Holiday spin! Use native controls in Reporting Services 2005/2008 to generate time and action visual analysis. This article is a reprint from the authors' posting on SQL Server Central.

HOW TO: Repeat Header Rows in SQL Reporting Services 2008

Tech Support — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:35:50 +0000

Can’t get table (Tablix) headers to repe… Read the rest

Analyze and Optimize SQL Server Reporting Services Reports

Tech Support — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:08:02 +0000

Things to look for in SSRS optimization include… Read the rest

Extend Timeout for SQL Reporting Services in SharePoint Integrated Mode

Tech Support — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:39:58 +0000

You may receive an ASP.NET or SharePoint applic… Read the rest