November 2006
The ReportViewer control is a powerful tool for integrating reports into Windows and Web form applications. You can make it even more powerful if you're willing to write a few lines of Visual Basic .NET or Visual C# code.
SQL Server Magazine
October
If you need more report functionality than SSRS can offer, Visual Studio 2005's ReportViewer control might be just what you need.
SQL Server Magazine
October
A mysterious email message leads B.I. Powers to track down codes on National Manufacturing's reports and teach them how to use meaningful names.
SQL Server Magazine
August 2006
Is foul play behind the excessive number of wrist injuries at a local manufacturing company? Can B.I. Powers convince the company's president to use Analysis Services to secure access to data?
SQL Server Magazine
June 2006
A fanatical collector demands a report that will let her see everything in her collections. Can B.I. Powers provide the solution by modifying a Reporting Services parameter?
SQL Server Magazine
March 2006
A date with a fig lands B.I. Powers in an investigation of a mysterious fruit theft. Can Powers help the nutty culprit create a time dimension?
SQL Server Magazine
February 2006
Mysterious security-log entries put B.I. Powers on the trail of a time traveler. Can Reporting Services’ history snapshots save the culprit from performing unnecessary work?
SQL Server Magazine
January 2006
B.I. Powers turns up an OLAP cube that's dragging a company into the past. Is SQL Server 2005 behind the latency? Can Powers find a simple solution?
SQL Server Magazine
October 18, 2005
When mysterious SQL Server Agent jobs appear on a seemingly isolated server, a DBA engages B.I. Powers to discover the cause. Is dear departed Uncle Wally trying to contact his nephew?
SQL Server Magazine
September 20, 2005
The intrepid B.I. Powers is engaged to track down missing data. Is the data loss part of an international conspiracy? Or is the solution closer to home?
SQL Server Magazine
September 2005
SQL Server 2005’s BI tools might seem intimidating to relational database developers. But three new tasks offer and easy introduction to automating data analysis and data mining.
SQL Server Magazine
August 16, 2005
When SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services administrator Greg Parker goes missing for more than a week, B.I Powers, consulting detective, is called in to find the hapless employee.
SQL Server Magazine
December 2003
Read all about the new SQL Server 2000 tool that has customers singing Microsoft's praises. Reporting Services, slated for release to manufacturing by the end of the year, handles the complete reporting life cycle.
SQL Server Magazine
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