This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Jorge Segarra (blog | twitter) who decided that we should write about our favorite new feature in SQL Server 2008 R2. The majority of my published works concentrates on Reporting Services, so the obvious answer for me with regard to favorite new features is…Reporting Services. I can’t pick [...]

Host Michael Coles (blog|twitter) has selected LOB data as the topic for this month’s T-SQL Tuesday, so I’ll take this opportunity to post an overview of reporting with spatial data types. As part of my work with SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services, I’ve been exploring the use of spatial data types in the new [...]

If you have any experience at all with Reporting Services, you have probably developed a report using the matrix data region. It’s handy when you want to generate columns dynamically based on data. If users view a matrix report online, they can scroll horizontally to view all columns and all is well. But if they [...]

On April 14, 2010, Microsoft Press (blog | twitter) released my latest book, co-authored with Ross Mistry (twitter), as a free ebook download – Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2. As the title implies, this ebook is an introduction to the latest SQL Server release. Although you’ll find a comprehensive review of the product’s features [...]

As you might have guessed if you’ve been reading my blog lately, I’ve been spending a lot of time working with the business intelligence features in SQL Server 2008 R2. Not just Reporting Services, but the whole BI stack. However, it just so happens that today is T-SQL Tuesday and the topic this month is Reporting [...]