This week I ran into strange issue. Out of no where my Who Is report stopped working. To be exact, InfoDB API stopped working ! With little digging I found that it needs to have format=xml not XML !! For some reasons InfoDB guys just decided that it has to be in lower case, but
Category: SSRS
Setting up Email Subscriptions in SSRS
One of many things that I liked very much for SSRS over Crystal Reports is “Report Subscription”. At work we use Crystal Reports as our primary reporting system. And to provide scheduled report deliveries via email we have designed our own little .NET application that allows users to create schedule and manage automated report deliveries
MAPS in SSRS
In SQL Server 2008 R2 Microsoft introduced really cool new feature … MAPS. With that user can use their existing data on top of maps to have better visualization of information (say customer base distributed across USA). What’s really good about this feature is user can use maps from maps gallery, or spatial data or
WHO IS … SSRS Report
I know it sounds grammatically incorrect … it should say WHAT IS SSRS REPORT ? But this title is very intentional. It just says that WHO IS SSRS REPORT, means “Who Is” report in SSRS. “Who IS” is a query that is used to find details of registration information of any given public IP address.
Template for Report … Unifying report layouts
Most of the companies use some sort of unique format for their reports and this layout is kept same for all of their reports to create some sort of identity or brand. And for that developers usually use some kind of template to create default layout of report, and most of all reporting systems supports
Crystal Reports in .NET
Ok, after surviving 5 days without electricity I guess I am ready for new post. We had great storm last week and it caused state wide power outages. Some cities still don’t have electricity yet !! Anyways, this post is about creating basic report using Crystal Reports in ASP.NET I think Crystal Report has been
Developing reports in BIDS using Report Wizard
In my last two posts about reports, I explained how can we develop & deploy reports using Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS). But I think that even though I titled it as 101, it was not as easy as it sounds. Because there is even easier way exists to create a report that is by