Friday, February 25, 2005 - Posts
Another commonly asked question that I promised a link to in the web cast was a to this webcast from Brian Welcker on Reporting Services for SQL Server 2005.
One of the most asked questions from my Webcast was "where do you get Reporting Service from?" and a I promised a link to where you go to find them. Here you go: http://www.microsoft.com/sql/reporting/howtobuy/default.asp
Make sure to
read the FAQs too.
Thanks to the fine folks over at SSWUG, you can now watch and listen my Reporting Services Kickstart webcast from yesterday on-demand. It looks like the slides aren't scrolling, though, so if you're interested in following along, but sure to download PDF for that. The download link for that is a button on the bottom of the viewer Window.
I'm still waiting for the list of questions from them, so look for that follow-up early next week.
Questions, comments and suggestions welcomed here, of course.
I was blessed with the opportunity to follow one of the best .NET brains in Omaha last night -- the Phil Canarski (sp?) -- with a quick presentation on using Reporting Services's Web Services as part of a Service Oriented Integration effort. Its just amazing some the stuff that folks are doing with Reporting Services and Phil is one of them.
The highlight of night had to be my awful demonstration of C# coding skills. Maybe VB.NET really has inflicited a certain amount of “drain bamage“ on me afterall. However, it did meet my goal of saying the word “Service“ or “Services“ 93 times in an hour.
You can download the deck here (from GoSQLServer.org) if you like, and you're welcome to post any questions, comments or other feedback to this post if you wish. Splitting them up is just a bandwidth thing. I'm thinking that this presentation will likely become part of my regular series of talks so you might get to see it again in the future, maybe even as a SSWUG webcast.
And yes, I really can code in C#... despite my lackluster efforts at doing it live. :)
Who: The "Best of the best of the best" from Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Nebraska - Al Zyck and Ravi Thoutireddy
What: Overview of BCBSNE's multi-Terabyte, 64bit, SQL Server 2000/Informatica Enterprise Data Warehouse
When: 2005-03-17 18:30:00-06:00 (that's 6:30PM Central Time, of course)
Where: Vatterott College, 11818 "I" Street, Omaha
Why: Al and/or Ravi will be covering this warehouse's Basic Design, Implementation Issues and Lessons Learned. They will be also be providing brief feedback on their evaluation of SQL Server 2005.
How: Please sign up for membership on GoSQLServer.org and respond to this poll to RSVP.