SQL Server 2008 RC0 feature pack

SQL Server 2008 Feature Pack

Martyn Bullerwell's blog — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:41:23 GMT

In April I wrote about Reporting Services in SQL 2008 with MOSS 2007 ( here ), and also a small article

re: SQL Server 2008 RC0 feature pack

techarch — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:50:09 GMT

Although the new design features are very nice, enterprises will need backward compatibility on the following features:

a) access through click-once. This allows for zero deployment. Note: another option would be to create a Silverlight version ...

b) ability to only allow business users to create an ad-hoc report based on a pre-defined report model. This is important at the enterprise architecture level since you need to control who can access what data as well as manage the load on your database servers

c) ability to show available report models directly on the side of the surface (like in 1.0) to ensure direct access and usability

Without these features enterprise customers like us will not be able to upgrade and get the nice design enhancements.

PS: See my other post in the MSDN forum: http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=3467438&SiteID=1

re: SQL Server 2008 RC0 feature pack

Andrew_Fryer — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:48:28 GMT

My 2c

It will have web deployment.

You can limit what data sources get deployed to reporting services and so limit what users can report against.

Report Builder 2 is not finished yet and I would expect to see the report model in the way youdescribe.

Finally out all this feedback on connect, to make it visible to the product team