This is my contribution to the T-SQL Tuesday blog party, started by Adam Machanic and  hosted this month by Aaron Nelson.  Aaron announced this month's topic is ''reporting'' so I figured I'd throw a blog up on a reporting topic I've been interested in for a while -- namely creating custom reports in SSMS. Creating SSMS custom ...

[This is just a quickie, I’m putting it up here for anyone that received the messages above and searches for it online!] Earlier today my team experienced some issues with a Reporting Services report that when attempting to export to Excel would cause Excel to throw the error “Excel found unreadable content” (I really should have got a screenshot ...

Buck Woody has a great series going on SQL Server ManagementStudio Standard Reports. The SQL Server team did a great job developing these insightful and intuitive reports. I often show them to customers and during presentations and the response is always positive. :{> Andy

I had a great discussion while teaching a class on Reporting Services today, discussing the basics of report design (yes, I make them consider basic principles of report design before I start talking about the technical details - I'm a stickler that way). That made me consider some of the most common design issues that I see with SSRS and the ...

I have a new Dell desktop. The first thing I did was install Vista 64-bit and bumped it up to 4GB of RAM. I'm now trying to install a default instance of SQL Server 2005 Developer and can't get Reporting Services to run because IIS isn't installed. After trying the click-a-bunch-of-stuff in the ''Turn Windows features on or off'' dialog, I ...