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April is turning out to be a busy month for me. Apart from taking the beta SQL Server 2012 certification exams and some reviews, I am also speaking at...

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I have always been inspired by a particular quote from Arthur C Clarke - “The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond ...

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You just upgraded to SSRS 2008 R2 and some reports are hanging up, while others seem to work fine. How do you debug for this, and what is the fix?

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You install or upgrade to SSRS 2008R2 Gold, and get the following error "SSRS SystemOverflowexception: Value was either too large or too small for an Int32". Here is what is going on....

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BI Architect Bill Pearson continues an extended examination of parameterization within Analysis Services reports. In this, Part 3 of the article, we continue to get hands-on practice creating a parameter within the graphical user interface, and then examine the construction that Reporting Services 2005/ 2008 / 2008 R2 performs behind the scenes.

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BI Architect Bill Pearson continues an extended examination of parameterization within Analysis Services reports. In this, Part 2 of the article, we continue to get hands-on practice creating a parameter within the graphical user interface, and then examine the construction that Reporting Services 2005/ 2008 / 2008 R2 performs behind the scenes.

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Effective data presentation techniques help users  interpret information quickly and reliably.  Layout, formatting, sizing, labeling, and other report elements may all be used to facilitate analysis and decision-making.  This article will focus on one aspect of formatting:  color.  More than just an aesthetic concern, color serves a valuable purpose to enhance perception and understanding of data.

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Is TOAD faster than BIDS Query Builder? I had a question from the client the other day that confused me at first so I thought it would be good to p...

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If you ever see the warning message “This field is missing from the returned result set form the data source” and get unexplained #Errors in columns on your report it may be from SSAS not returning a column is the column is null for all the rows. You can use the IsMissing method of the field object and a vb function in your report to work around this problem.

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Setting the format of a text box can be very time consuming... Reporting Services does not have an easy place to go to look up all of the formatting expressions that can be used in the format property. This is simply a list of all of the formatting codes you can use - a useful tool.

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