Microsoft bought ActiveViews, a small company last April for its ad hoc reporting capabilities. Those functions, with a re-written interface, will now be poured into a "self-service ad hoc report ...

Note – This book abbreviates SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services as SSRS and SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services as SSRS2K5. New features available in SSRS and not in SSRS2K5 are labeled with “New in ...

A Java Web application often uses a SQL Server database. SQL Server now comes bundled with a reporting tool, Reporting Services. RS has generated a lot of attention among developers since it first ...

Microsoft complements its relational database engine, SQL Server, with several add-on services that manage different aspects of enterprise business intelligence and information processing such as data ...

Tesla paid a $10,000 bounty for a vulnerability in Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) that had received a patch five days before getting the bug report. The issue was tagged as a ...

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SQL Server 2008 R2, which ships this month, allows end users to tap into the powerful business intelligence features of SQL Server via tight integration with popular Microsoft applications like Excel.

With its growing emphasis on business-intelligence and analytics, Microsoft has a lot of different reporting options. It wasn't until I read a SQL Server blog post last week that I understood how the ...

According to recent data from the SolarWinds "State of Monitoring and Observability Report," 51% of IT pros believe database performance would benefit from better observability. Oftentimes, database ...

One of your most valuable assets is the data you collect, but the mere collection of data is insufficient to bring about noticeable and positive change within your organization. Equally important to ...

We have an ancient AS/400 730 system that still houses some old budget/financial data. We'd like to decommission this box, and migrate the data to a SQL server. The data won't be modified or changed ...