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Tuesday, January 03, 2006 5:14 PM

SQL 2005 Metadata Samples Toolkit and whitepaper now available

Reposted 10/1/06 to include in 'free tools' category I'm constantly asked "what's Microsoft doing about metadata and do we have a solution." In the old days (SQl 2000 and 7), Microsoft provided Meta Data Services, a platform designed to help tools and
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Monday, January 02, 2006 5:15 PM

New SQL 2005 code samples available

I guess now the pressure is off to release the product we'll see more useful samples comming out of corp; here's a link to the latest December update: http://msdn.microsoft.com/sql/downloads/samples/default.aspx
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Monday, November 28, 2005 5:47 PM

Feature Pack for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 - November 2005

Overview The Feature Pack is a collection of standalone install packages that provide additional value for SQL Server 2005. It includes: Latest versions of redistributable components for SQL Server 2005 Latest versions of add-on providers for SQL Server
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Tuesday, August 16, 2005 11:49 AM

SQL Server Reporting Services Report Packs - looking for suggestions

when I was over in the US recently, I attended a 'Bill Baker and team unplugged' session, (Bill is the GM for SQL Server Business Intelligence). Reporting Services Report packs came up as a topic for discussion. The team asked the audience if the Report
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Thursday, July 14, 2005 9:35 PM

Reporting Services: Two New (Free) Report Packs Released for Sharepoint and Axapta

Good news for the chap I met on the 'Ask the Experts' desk at TechEd, who was contemplating jumping through all sorts of hurdles to create reports form Sharepoint data. I couldn't really get my head round the (Sharepoint) problems he foresaw, but I was
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Wednesday, June 22, 2005 5:28 PM

Querying and Reporting on Report Execution Log Data

Well I didn't realise, or maybe I just plain forgot, that these reports and the necessary support infrastrucuture come with Reporting Services under the extras folder on the CD - all useful stuff for report heads. Longest Running Reports Most Executed
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Friday, April 15, 2005 10:10 AM

Feature comparison: Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services vs Business Objects Crystal Reports / Crystal Enterprise

At last, here is a feature comparison between Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services vs Business Objects Crystal Reports / Crystal Enterprise that I can actually point you to. We ' ve had our own internal one for quite sometime, but for what I believe
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Monday, April 04, 2005 8:12 AM

Two new free Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services Report Packs released for IIS and Great Plains

From the blog hits I received the last time I posted some info on free report packs available for SQL Server Reporting Services, I'm sure many of you will be pleased to find we've just posted two more for IIS and Great Plains. Objective: The Report Packs
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Monday, March 21, 2005 6:58 PM

Microsoft SQL Server - Reporting Services Scripter - a free tool from sqldbatips.com

I’m grateful to Andy Steer of Contemporary, one of our Gold BI Partners here in the UK , for pointing me to this useful free utility from.sqldbatips.com Overview: Reporting Services Scripter is a .NET Windows Forms application that enables scripting of
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Monday, February 14, 2005 5:25 PM

Reporting Services : 21 Report packs released to the web for free download

Just incase you missed this freebie: Report Packs SQL Server 2000 Report Pack for Microsoft CRM Download this set of six predefined CRM-based reports and a sample database that let you easily visualize and author managed reports to support key sales activities
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Tuesday, February 01, 2005 3:54 PM

Business Intelligence Portal Sample Application for Microsoft Office

A good number of people have told me just how useful this sample application is: Business intelligence portal sample application for Microsoft Office 2003 is an integrated, web-based OLAP solution that enables employees in an organization to create and
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Friday, January 07, 2005 11:23 AM

SQL Server Health and History Tool (SQLH2)

This tool has been available for a couple of months but I only found out about it yesterday; I was reading some stuff about SQL Server 2005 and found a reference to say this tool will be supported in SQL 2k5. Realising such downloads have sometimes escaped
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