By Brian Larson, 10/26/2006
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 ...
By Brian Larson, 09/21/2006
If you need more report functionality than SSRS can offer, Visual Studio 2005's ReportViewer control might be just what you need.
By Brian Larson, 09/21/2006
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.
By Brian Larson, 07/20/2006
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 ...
By Brian Larson, 05/23/2006
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?
By Brian Larson, 02/22/2006
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?
By Brian Larson, 01/25/2006
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?
By Brian Larson, 12/20/2005
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?
By Brian Larson, 10/18/2005
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 ...
By Brian Larson, 09/20/2005
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?
By Brian Larson, 08/19/2005
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.
By Brian Larson, 08/16/2005
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.
By Martin Voegele, 11/20/2003
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 ...