Musings of a technophile

Many people could tell you that when a piece of software doesn’t work correctly, or rather doesn’t do all the it should be capable of doing, I’ll be one of the first to point that out.  Being a programmer and a DBA certainly helps with this as since I have such a good knowledge of how stuff works from a back end perspective, even perhaps if I can’t see the… Continue reading

So I have spent the last week or so reconfiguring our reporting server at work. It was running Windows Server 2003 x86 with SQL Server 2005 and SSRS (SQL Server Reporting Services) 2005 before, now it is running Windows Server 2008 x64, SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2005 (two different instances) and SSRS 2005.

Just to be clear, we tried SSRS 2008 before but apparently SSRS 2008 has… Continue reading