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All those temporary files (RSTempFiles)
When you install Reporting Services, we create a few directories:LogFilesReportManagerReportServerRSTempFilesMost of these are fairly self explanatory. LogFiles... well we put our log files in there....
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Scaling Up: SSRS 2008 vs. SSRS 2005 (spoiler: 2008 wins)
The SQL Customer Advisory Team just released a Technical Note comparing SQL Server Reporting Services 2008 vs. 2005 from a scale-up perspective. Its good to see that a lot of the work that we did over...
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Scaling out the Viewer Control and rsExecutionNotFound
One of the criteria that the report server uses to match the provided SessionID with a stored report is that the SessionID has to be provided by the same user that initially created the session....
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Hiding Rendering Extensions
This is documented behavior, but we see lots of questions on it. A good mechanism for preventing users from accidently exporting reports to a format that you don’t want (for example, you might know...
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Hiding parameter area when viewing reports
When rendering reports, oftentimes the application would like to minimize as much of the non-report area of the viewer control as possible. This is easily accomplished when rendering the report...
View ArticleScaling Up: SSRS 2008 vs. SSRS 2005 (spoiler: 2008 wins)
The SQL Customer Advisory Team just released a Technical Note comparing SQL Server Reporting Services 2008 vs. 2005 from a scale-up perspective. Its good to see that a lot of the work that we did over...
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Scaling out the Viewer Control and rsExecutionNotFound
One of the criteria that the report server uses to match the provided SessionID with a stored report is that the SessionID has to be provided by the same user that initially created the session....
View ArticleAvoid using HttpContext in your reports
On one of our internal mailing lists, someone was asking trying to retrieve some HTTP Headers that their internal application was submitting to the Report Server within the report. Someone else...
View ArticleRS Blogger shout-outs
If you are interested in Reporting Services, you probably already know about these blogs … because frankly they have more interesting things to say than me! At any rate, just in case they happened to...
View ArticleHiding Rendering Extensions
This is documented behavior, but we see lots of questions on it. A good mechanism for preventing users from accidently exporting reports to a format that you don’t want (for example, you might know...
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Hiding parameter area when viewing reports
When rendering reports, oftentimes the application would like to minimize as much of the non-report area of the viewer control as possible. This is easily accomplished when rendering the report...
View ArticleRunningJobContext.IsClientConnected
I’ve seen a few people get confused over what this error message in the Reporting Services log file indicates. This message is generated when the Reporting Services web server detects that an HTTP...
View ArticleRS PowerShell Gems – The WMI Provider
For IT administration of a Report Server instance, you will occasionally need to use WMI. We try to ease this to some extent by exposing a command line tool rsconfig.exe as well as the RS...
View ArticleNow From Windows Phone
Last November I decided to leave the SQL Reporting Services team and join the Windows Phone Application Platform team. This is the team responsible for delivering: The overall application model for...
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DataContext.Log and Windows Phone
Among the many features that are compatible between Linq To SQL on desktop Windows and on Windows Phone is the support for capturing all of the generated SQL as it is being sent to the database. This...
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