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Little Workaround in Report Manager

I had an issue this week in Report Manager. I was generating a report (we’ll call it General Widgets Report), and from there clicking a link to generate and export a subreport (say, Individual Widget Report). The problem with this is that it wipes out initial report and its parameters…so every single time, I had […]

I need #sqlhelp! BIDS shuts down unexpectedly – SOLVED

Edit: See end of blog for solution. I have MS Visual Studio 2008 (BIDS) x86 with SP1.  Recently it’s started shutting down without warning whenever I hit “preview” on a SSRS report. Google hasn’t helped, and I didn’t get much love on #sqlhelp (the Twitter hashtag for SQL help), so I thought I’d ask my […]

SQL Education

They always used to tell us that education is important. Education is (They said) key, in fact.  We as a technical community apparently agree with Them, because we’ve devoted countless hours to writing and reading blogs, articles, books, abstracts, bios, and technical sessions. We’ve spent even more hours attending those sessions at user group meetings, […]