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Microsoft TechNet Events Today and Tomorrow!!!
25 March 09 02:22 | Simon Phillips | with no comments

Just a reminder that there are a few Microsoft events being run over the next couple of days. ‘Tech Days’ are a collaborative effort between Microsoft and the IT Pro Community to re-deliver the highlights of Tech Ed Conference to IT Pros across Ireland...

Filed under: Events, Gaming, Community, Virtualisation, SharePoint, Business Intelligence, IT Pro, Microsoft, Xbox 360, SQL Server, Windows 7, Home Server, HyperV, Photos

SQL Server Reporting Services - Opening up hyperlink in a new window
28 January 08 11:17 | Simon Phillips | 3 comment(s)

By default if you create a navigation link in Reporting Services it opens the link in the same window. In the majority of cases this is fine as you usually use these for navigating to bookmarks within the same report or other reports. However there are...

Filed under: Business Intelligence, SQL Server

Using date parameters in Reporting Services reports built against data cubes
27 September 07 03:20 | Simon Phillips | with no comments

I've came across a newsgroup question today, that I thought that I would blog about. When you create a report in Reporting Services against a SQL AS data cube and create a parameter against a date dimension the VS Report Designer creates a string...

Filed under: SQL, Business Intelligence, SQL Server

WSS 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Comparision Features
12 February 07 09:22 | Simon Phillips | with no comments

At work I'm always getting asked this (twice today!!), so I thought that I would post it up here so I didn't loose the link. Microsoft posted last September (and documented by most of the SharePoint Bloggers) a comparison chart of the differences between...

Filed under: Office 2007, SharePoint, Business Intelligence

SQL Reporting Services: Using Parameter Queries with Oracle Sources
09 January 07 08:10 | Simon Phillips | with no comments

I came across this today when I tried to create a report in SQL Server Reporting Services against an Oracle database using the Oracle .Net Provider. Against SQL you can define parameters in the report query using @paramname syntax. This doesn't work against...

Filed under: SQL, Business Intelligence