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april 2006 - Posts

• Installing SQL Server 2005 Express Service Pack 1

  My initial joy of having a brand new service pack for SQL Express is now turned to frustration. For some stupid reason, I can't install the service pack on my test server. I'm currently running a Community Server Test site, and don't feel like uninstalling Read More posted 21-04-2006 12:07 by kaisa | 0 Comments Filed Under: Reporting Services, IT in general, SQL Server

• SQL Server 2005 sp1 released

  SQL Server 2005 sp 1 was released on April 18th. Information can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/sql/sp1.mspx Download SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 1 And then there are some new tools and SP1 for SQL Server 2005 Express Edition at http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/sql/download/. Read More posted 20-04-2006 09:20 by kaisa | 0 Comments Filed Under: Reporting Services, IT in general, MDX and Analysis Services, SQL Server

• Sloppy Language setting causes problem in Reporting Services 2000

  I'm currently working on some Reporting Services reports for a customer in Finland. I've been setting the language settings in Report Designer to Finnish (Finland) for almost all the reports. You can set the language settings to either Finnish or Finnish Read More posted 19-04-2006 05:23 by kaisa | 0 Comments Filed Under: Reporting Services

• Onfolio part of the new Windows Live Toolbar

  Last year I beta tested Onfolio 2.0. I liked the application, but never got around to buy it when it was released. And now it seems like more people than I did like it, as Microsoft has bought the whole thing. It's now part of the Windows Live Toolbar! Read More posted 18-04-2006 02:12 by kaisa | 1 Comments Filed Under: Blogging and dotText

• Starting MDX Sample Application with specified data source

  When I work with Reporting Services reports against OLAP cubes, I usually use the MDX Sample Application to write my mdx queries. And some of the things that annoy me is to always have to type in the server name to the Analysis Server. Last week I decided Read More posted 10-04-2006 11:47 by kaisa | 0 Comments Filed Under: MDX and Analysis Services

• Replacing the page title in Report Manager

  Someone called Vivian / Vyv posted to the Reporting Services news group on how to replace the tekst in the page title of reporting services reports. By default, the page title is "Report Manager"". Not very descriptive, so she had made a good Read More posted 10-04-2006 10:02 by kaisa | 0 Comments Filed Under: Reporting Services