Random Thoughts on Technology
Emi Baragan's (mostly) technical blog
PivotViewer Extension for Reporting Services - CTP1
On his blog, Cristian Petculescu posted a cool video demonstrating the capabilities of the...
Date: 07/20/2010
Kerberos Authentication for SSRS 2008 R2 integrated with SharePoint 2010.
Prash announcedyesterday the availability of a new whitepaper - Configuring Kerberos Authentication...
Date: 07/15/2010
SQL Server Setup and Deployment Portal is live
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc765421.aspx - SQL Server Setup and Deployment Support and...
Date: 05/14/2010
Using DelegConfig version 2.0 (beta) tool for troubleshooting Kerberos Delegation issues
In april 2009, I posted an article on using Brian Murphy Booth's DelegConfig tool for...
Date: 12/28/2009
Doubled records in Excel output of a SSRS Report with expandable regions
Some customers have lately raised the discussion around, what they thought it was, a misbehavior of...
Date: 10/29/2009
SSRS service might not start after installing Windows Security patches and rebooting the machine
Sometimes, if your server is under heavy load, or after installing Windows Security patches, like...
Date: 08/10/2009
Copy 'n' Paste from PDF files generated from SQL Server Reporting Services
Over the last months I've seen more and more customers inquiring about issues when trying to Copy...
Date: 08/06/2009
Timeouts and Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services
When working with Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services, there are more levels of...
Date: 05/28/2009
Slow response time for SQL Server Reporting Services after restart or after period of inactivity - why does it happen and how to fix it -
I can think of 2 separate issues and causes. First is related to the Web Service recycling and the...
Date: 04/24/2009
Using DelegConfig tool for troubleshooting Kerberos Delegation issues
A couple of days ago I delivered a presentation on troubleshooting Kerberos configuration issues,...
Date: 04/16/2009
WMI related errors while connecting to SQL Server 2005/2008 Reporting Services
Here's a quick guide describing a few checks you could make if you encounter any WMI related errors...
Date: 03/16/2009
Creating Subscriptions Programmatically using different Local Settings (field separators)
If you want to create subscriptions programmatically, using the SOAP API, you would call the...
Date: 02/25/2009
About integrating Reporting Services into your application (for beginners)
In order to integrate Reporting Services into your Web Application you have the following options:...
Date: 01/27/2009
Unable to load the client print control after installing KB956391
Recently, one of my colleagues put together a very comprehensive action plan that normally should...
Date: 12/03/2008
Could not locate entry in sysdatabases for database X
While upgrading a SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services instance to SP2 from SP1 or from RTM, you might...
Date: 10/30/2008
Conditional Formatting not working in reports exported to Excel from SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services SP2
Consider the following scenario: You have a report deployed on a SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services...
Date: 09/19/2008
Developer Tools in Internet Explorer 8
As you probably heard, IE8 introduces the Developer Tools. Lots of great features like live HTML and...
Date: 09/15/2008
SQL Server Agent cannot be started after adding an "Alias Local Host Server"
We might find ourselves in the following scenario: for a SQL Server 2005 edition, you accidentaly...
Date: 08/26/2008
"The specified @name (‘B3F7CB60-6636-4F67-93CF-B94C052DFD29’) already exists" while editing a subscription
Consider the following scenario: You have either SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services or SQL Server...
Date: 08/26/2008