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 ...

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 ...