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New version of Expressmaint now available (2.0.0.0)

A new version of the Expressmaint database maintenance utility is now available for download. This version adds the ability to specify a custom backup file name format. Please note there are specific version for SQL 2005 (2.0.0.0) and SQL 2008 (2.0.0.1) that differ only in the version of SMO they use...

Posted to sqldbatips.com blog (Weblog) by sqldbatips on Sat, Nov 7 2009
New version of Expressmaint now available (1.9.0.0)

A new version of the Expressmaint database maintenance utility is now available for download. This version fixes an issue with the timeout parameter (-TO) being treated as seconds instead of minutes for the REORG task. Please note there are specific version for SQL 2005 (1.9.0.0) and SQL 2008 (1.9.0...

Posted to sqldbatips.com blog (Weblog) by sqldbatips on Sun, Sep 13 2009
Reporting Services Linked Report Generator updated for SQL 2008

A new release of Reporting Services Linked Report Generator is now available (1.0.0.8) confirming support for SQL 2008 Reporting Services. Reporting Services Linked Report Generator is a .NET Windows Forms application that enables automatic generation of linked reports to any number of Reporting Services...

Posted to sqldbatips.com blog (Weblog) by sqldbatips on Tue, Apr 28 2009
New Release of Reporting Services Scripter (2.0.0.15) confirms SQL 2008 support

Judging by the increasing volume of emails I have recieved over the last few months asking about SQL 2008 support in Reporting Services Scripter there is a definate increase in the uptake of SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services and so I'm happy to say I've released a new build to confirm support...

Posted to sqldbatips.com blog (Weblog) by sqldbatips on Thu, Apr 16 2009
Updated build of ExpressMaint now available (1.8.0.0)

An updated build of the ExpressMaint utility for SQL 2005/2008 is now available. This release contains the following changes Added support for SQL Authentication Fixed an issue with databases that have not started being filtered out in Express Edition Download links below Download ExpressMaint from Codeplex...

Posted to sqldbatips.com blog (Weblog) by sqldbatips on Tue, Apr 7 2009
Updated build of ExpressMaint utility is now available (1.7.0.0)

An updated version (1.7.0.0) of the ExpressMaint utility for automating database maintenance operations for SQL 2005/2008 Express Edition is now available. This new version includes the following fix Fixed error when backing up instance with user instances option enabled Download Latest Version from...

Posted to sqldbatips.com blog (Weblog) by sqldbatips on Sat, Mar 7 2009
Updated build of ExpressMaint utility is now available

An updated version (1.6.0.0) of the ExpressMaint utility for automating database maintenance operations for SQL 2005/2008 Express Edition is now available. This new version includes the following fixes Fixed error when database name contains an apostrophe Fixed error when no report file is specified...

Posted to sqldbatips.com blog (Weblog) by sqldbatips on Tue, Nov 4 2008
First thing to do after installing SQL Server Management Studio 2008

One of the strangest UI design decisions in Management Studio for SQL 2008 is that by default the Start Debugging button is right next to the Execute button as shown below I myself have hit it by accident more times than I'd like to admit and I have seen many a demo (by MS staff as well) run into...

Posted to sqldbatips.com blog (Weblog) by sqldbatips on Wed, Sep 10 2008
Enabling My Reports feature in Reporting Services 2008

Although most of the functionality that used to be available for managing Reporting Services from Management Studio has now been removed in SQL 2008 (I assume because research showed the majority of customers use the Report Manager web interface), enabling the "My Reports" feature has strangely...

Posted to sqldbatips.com blog (Weblog) by sqldbatips on Tue, Sep 2 2008
Using Expressmaint on SQL Server 2008

With the release of SQL 2008 Express I thought it would be helpful to add a note that it you try to use the ExpressMaint utility to perform database maintenance operations against SQL Server 2008 on a computer which has never had SQL Server 2005 installed you will encounter an error. This is because...

Posted to sqldbatips.com blog (Weblog) by sqldbatips on Tue, Aug 19 2008

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