Subject to testing, it certainly looks like it could produce the same result.

Mmm, I think Gift Peddie needs to do a little more research. SSIS packages are easily configured. Most properties that you can set using Visual Studio/BIDS can...

The only reason for an service account to be a local administator is if you need the service to be able to do something with that level of privilege. ...

I would be very surprised if you can't run both RS2005 and RS2008 on the same server. At the end of the day, reporting services is simply a pair...

Picking up on what Gail was saying about triggers on the relevant system objects, whilst you can't use a trigger, you could use the "Audit Login Change" event to detect...

The location of the files for each database is transparent to the application using them - this includes reporting services. If you are wishing to keep using the same...

I would be very surprised if you can't run both RS2005 and RS2008 on the same server. At the end of the day, reporting services is simply a pair...

Picking up on what Gail was saying about triggers on the relevant system objects, whilst you can't use a trigger, you could use the "Audit Login Change" event to detect...

I would be very surprised if you can't run both RS2005 and RS2008 on the same server. At the end of the day, reporting services is simply a pair...

There is a row property that can be set to conditionally hide a row. You simply code an expression that returns either true or false. The expression would...

Transactional Replication does not use the date/time to manage the data that is being replicated. When you consider exactly the sort of scenarios that you have (with servers in...

Are you still having problems ?

When a failover occurs, your application will get an error because the connection to the database is no longer valid. However, you should then...

Try the following query instead

Select * from [MYTABLE] where [MYCOLUMN]= [dbo].[the Function I created for Decryption]('THE VALUE')

This allows SQL to utilise any indexes that it thinks appropriate.

This issue was covered in an article by Jonathan Kehayias just last week. Have a look at

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administration/65896/

I am wondering whethering it is simply taking a (very) long time to produce the PDF. Reporting Services will re-render the report and I suspec that it is simply...