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Nov 30 2006, 11:18 PM

SSMS Custom reports - Drill through reports

If you intend using the new custom reports feature of Management Studio and develop a set of reports that you can navigate between then be aware of a feature where by if you refresh a drill through report the some of the parameters are not maintained. For a full explanation have a look at the bug submission...
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Jun 29 2009, 08:31 AM

Hyperlinks in custom reports

One feature introduced in SQL Server 2005 is reporting in management studio. You have a set of standard reports that allow you to see in a nice report format output from dmvs and the default system background trace. Whats neat is that you can write your own custom reports. For those that long after the...
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Nov 16 2006, 01:07 AM

Custom reports in SQL 2005 SP2

You may have come across the fact that in SP2 you can deploy custom reports that are accessible in management studio. This reports can be run from any context in the object explorer tree. Whilst I think this is really interesting, I haven't played with it much, but Anthony has read his blog post...
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Jan 15 2006, 06:16 PM

Enabling SSIS packages in Reporting Services Reports

I hadn't tried writing a report based on an SSIS package on the RTM build until tonight. I couldn't understand why the SSIS options where not in the datasource builder. After a bit on investigation I found the following article in BOL " Configuring Reporting Services to Use Integration Services Package...
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Sep 04 2006, 03:08 PM

How to get the disk usage report working

If you've downloaded the SSMS reports and want to get the Disk Usage report working. Follow these steps. Remove all comments from the data sources, it seems that RS ignores CRs when the SQL is specified as an expression. This means that anything that appears after the comment is treated as part of the...
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Aug 15 2007, 09:54 PM

Do you want custom reports to run against SQL2000

I personally get realy annoyed that I have to go back to Enterprise manager to be able to run the taskpad report. If you agree then make sure you vote on it here https://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=240476 Then you will be able to use the taskpad custom report...
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Aug 08 2009, 10:27 PM

Where is the intelligence in Business Intelligence?

Many people believe that if they go ahead and implement a Business Intelligence solution they will suddenly have an intelligent business that will tell them how it is operating and what they need to do. Customers they need contacting will be flagged, orders that are likely to be late are notified so...
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Nov 13 2006, 05:38 PM

Performance Dashboard

I'm sitting in the PSS boot camp for PASS and didn't think I would have anything to blog about. How wrong could I be. Keith Elmore of the PSS team is currently presenting on performance problem solving in SQL 2005. Whats new is that in SP2 there is going to be a Performance Dashboard for Management...
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Sep 04 2006, 02:44 PM

Management Studio Reports - Available for download

Have you wanted to get your hands on the Reports that are available in Management Studio . Well you now can. Paul has published these on his blog here . Its quite interesting to look at some of the SQL in the reports. - google_ad_client = "pub-9351707026400773"; google_alternate_color="FFDDAA"; google_ad_width...
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Feb 26 2009, 10:23 AM

Last chance on Saturday to get £50 off

Don't forget Saturday its your last chance to get the early bird discount for the SQLBits training days Advanced TSQL and performance tuning for scalability with Simon Sabin Understanding TSQL performance is crucial to building a successful scalable database solution. In this session we will cover...
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