http://www.microsoft.com/sql/evaluation/bi/reportingservices.asp

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2003/jun03/06-02SQLreporting.asp

SQL Server Reporting Services will be beta released in August and the final release will be before the end of the year. Pricing could be free if they follow the...

Also Microstrategy has some fine reporting tools that are comparable to Business Objects and others.

However, the best tool IMO is the SQL Server Reporting Services software that Microsoft is due...

What about running the trace on the server, storing the results in a table and querying the results from the client using Excel or Access ? Then you only...

Can you post a table of contents or a more detailed description of what is covered in the book ? Thanks...

Check out this article:

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/hji/trace.asp

You can setup a server-side trace without using Profiler that will be turned on all the time. As Shas3 wrote, you can put the trace data into...

Go ahead and take the SQL Server 2000 tests, but wait until Microsoft adds the Windows 2003 Server test to the MCDBA requirements. I would not take the Windows...

Some additional information that might be helpful is on this web site:

http://www.dbajobs.com/database_job_titles.htm

Even better, this press release implies that Reporting Services will work with SQL Server 2000 as an add-on like Notification Services.

Assuming your data is in sequential mainframe datasets (flat files), you can create a Data Transformation Services (DTS) package to download and import the datasets into SQL Server tables.

If your...

Awesome article !!! I would especially like to know which version of Visual Studio .NET can be used to build English Query applications. If this information can be...

You didn't say where the error message was from, so I am assuming that you received a popup message box with that error. There are three places to check...

Since you want to change the shape of your XML document, you need to use FOR XML EXPLICIT.

Here's an article about the different FOR XML clauses:

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/lplatt/article4_1.asp

If you haven't bought a BI tool yet, it's probably worth waiting for SQL Server "Yukon" to be released in Q3 of this year because a BI tool from Microsoft...

As Crispin said, find your msxml3.dll file in the WINNT\system32 folder. Then right-click on Properties and click the Version tab.

It should say:

File version: 8.30.9926.0

Description: MSXML 3.0 SP 3

I should clarify that I meant using Microsoft's web site to open the case versus calling Microsoft. The price difference ($99 vs. $245) might be worth it if you receive...