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March 2009 - Posts

• Reporting Services 2008 Report automatic upgrade gotcha.

  For the Scrum for Team System project I have been focusing on the reports; I came across an issue which was due to the way the Reporting Services 2008 "automatic upgrade" feature upgraded our reports. The Scrum for Team System template contains over 20 Read More... Posted 30 March 2009 10:10 by steve.wright | 6 Comments Filed under: Scrum for Team System, Reporting Services 2008, SQL Server 2008, Agile Reporting, Agile, Scrum, Scrum for Team System V2.2, SSRS

• Some practical SQL Spatial tips.

  I have just finished a project were I made a lot of use of the SQL Spatial to do some processing and loading into the database. Here are some of lesson I learnt: The first method that needs to call after instantiating a SQLGeographybuilder object is: Read More... Posted 30 March 2009 10:09 by steve.wright | 1 Comments Filed under: Geo Spatial, SQL Server 2008, Geometry, .Net3.

• Working With Reporting Services Multiple Value Parameters

  A couple of colleagues of mine were working on a complicated reporting services project; they had one report which had a parameter which allowed a user to select multiple values of numbers, the problem they were facing was how pass the selected values Read More... Posted 30 March 2009 10:09 by steve.wright | 7 Comments Filed under: Reporting Services 2005, Reporting Services, Reporting Services 2008, SSRS