Reporting Services 2008 R2 has many new great features that I’ve written about lately ( Data Bars and Indicators ). Today I wanted to tell you a little about another nice add called Report Parts. Report Parts allow you the developer to create an object (graphs, charts, tables, etc…) and then your power users that actually develop reports in Report Builder 3.0 to use those objects in the reports they develop. As the developer when you want to publish a Report part to the server. You will use the ...
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With less than a month away, May 8, before the big event in Jacksonville I wanted to give you a little inside information about this event if you've never been to one before. SQL Saturday is a free training and networking event with Microsoft MVPs, SQL Server Authors and other professionals. If you are looking for great free training we will have six tracks for Beginners, Business Intelligence, DBA, and Developers. Take a look at the schedule here to see what interests you most! Notice one of th...
Last week I wrote a blog explaining how the new tool inside Reporting Services 2008 R2 called Indicator will be help for displaying KPIs in Reporting Services. Today I want to looks at another nice feature added to Reporting Services in R2 called Data Bar. It’s a small but nice add to the product that gives it a little bit of an Excel look and feel. You may already know there is a nice but simply feature in Excel to help you compare data called Data Bars shown below, shown below. This same funct...
As I begin to explore more and more of the new feature that will be available in SQL Server 2008 R2 I can’t help but think why was this not available before? One of these features is the new item in the Reporting Services Toolbox called Indicator. It finally gives you a little help when it comes to displaying Analysis Services KPIs in a Reporting Services report. Before now you could display KPIs by importing your own image and writing some conditional expressions in the reporting expression lan...