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Reporting Services administration changes in Katmai (v.Next)
Brian Welcker posts some information on changes they are consindering to how you will administer Sql Server Reporting Services in the next version, codenamed Katmai.
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Reserve judgement lest thou be judged too...
After submiting my last post (rant), I re-read it and had a thought occur. Maybe I too should show humility and take the optimistic view that the developers of these projects really did have good reasons for their reinventions and innovations.
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Embrace the framework!
Sometimes I get involved with a .NET project where I find code that is just so "different" from the norm that I wonder how it got to such an extreme state; Code that reinvents Configuration, Threading, File IO, DataAccess, or sometimes even primitive data types. It strikes me as a form of extreme arrogance that a developer could find even the most fundamental building blocks incapable of being used. In the end, I find myself babeling to myself incoherently as I try to trace, diagram, and divine the secrets of these "innovative" implementations.
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Find your Sql Server Version and Edition
When working with Sql Reporting Services or other features that are version-specific, I often need to know what version of Sql Server is running on the target server.