It is with great pleasure that I am announcing the newest city to host a TechFest event - Rogers, Arkansas! The North West Arkansas area has a thriving Developer and IT Pro community. Not to mention it is home to the *Fortune 1* company in the world. Facilities to hold this first event were very difficult to come by economically, but we've found ...

Aspose.Total for Reporting Services Q3 2008 release includes many new and improved features in this suite of Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services Rendering Extensions. Now you can export RDL reports to multiple file formats like DOC, DOCX, HTML, RTF, WordML, PDF, PPT, PPS, XLS, XLSX and SpreadsheetML. You can also add 29 linear and 2D barcode ...

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Look no further: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/aug08/08-06SQLServer2008PR.mspx " REDMOND, Wash. — Aug. 6, 2008 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the release to manufacturing of Microsoft SQL Server 2008, the new version of the company’s acclaimed data management and business intelligence platform. This ...

I've lately crushed on SQL2005's business intelligence. See, it's nice to learn the greatest features of a product when new version is almost out there. :-) Well, as probably many others, I almost instantly uninstalled VS2005 after VS2008 was in RTM and running on my machine. Of course, because I also had ...

One of the quietly announced (at MIX - WMV here) new things coming from Microsoft ''soon'' is SQL Server Data Services (SSDS).  The SSDS team has a blog on MSDN.  Ryan Dunn discussed it with me recently and also has been blogging about it.  Last week he announced the release of PhluffyFotos, a sample site built on top of SSDS.  ...

I thought I mention this, since these types of tools are rarely needed, but when they are, they are also seriously saving your ass. :-) SQL Log Rescue is basically undo tool which analyzes transaction logs of your SQL Server database and allows you to undo and redo transactions. You can for example restore the 100 million rows you ...

Aspose.Words for Reporting Services is a rendering extension for Microsoft SQL Server 2000, 2005 and 2008 Reporting Services (32 bit & 64 bit). It allows you to export your RDL reports to flow layout documents and provides comprehensive support for exporting them to DOCX, DOC, RTF and WordprocessingML formats. All RDL report features including ...

For Lake Quincy Media's AdSignia Ad Server, I wanted to be able to ensure that the database had some internal logic rules checked periodically.  What kinds of rules?  Well, probably an example would be best.  Suffice to say up front, though, that we're talking about more than NOT NULL or enforcing referential integrity.  For ...

I ran into this very annoying issue earlier this week, that my buddy and SQL guru Gregg Stark was able to track down for me.  I have a fairly intense XtraReport report that gets its data from a stored procedure.  When I run that stored procedure in SQL Management Studio, it returns in less than a second.  When I run it on my web ...