Oh - I forgot to say that we also sometime produce a seperate user guide which is published to the report server. For different groups of users I tend...

I always attempt to pull together a comprehensive word document for each report project.

This set out the data source, tables etc used from the data source, any links between reports...

Have you checked the page settings of the reports in visual studio - ie height and width, margins, etc.

Make sure that they are set to the format of...

Thanks for this question. As a relative newbie I think I will find this useful in future.

I had another thought on the topic.

Whilst it is good to work for a strong manager when it works in your favour, how about the flip side.

For example when you...

Definitely working for a strong manager any day.

My biggest grumble is when my own manager seems less competent in defending the interests of the team against outside influences. There...

I think I misunderstood the question on this one. I ran the code and got 5 rows affected message so chose 5 as the answer.

I learnt this the hard way. One of the most frustrating things when you come across it for the first time.

For these formating reasons I tend to design reports...

Just working my way through old questions for some training.

As I am relatively new to SQL this was a good test for me. I got the answer right, however...

Interesting article. Definite food for though on keeping up on skills development. Thankfully the softer skills can be developed over a longer period of time.

I enjoyed the report...

Thanks for the reply mannaggia.

I had a feeling that this might be the answer but thought best to ask in case anything has changed.

I was looking for a easier way...

Thanks for this article. It will come in useful as this was a report feature that we were asked for when we developed a particular report using 2005. ...

Read data sources and got it wrong.

Note to self to read question properly next time.

Would love to see more reporting services questions.:-D

Very good article. 😀

We were only discussing the other day a list of 'failed' projects. Maybe they were not failures after all and delivered exactly what was asked...

With the comments about health care in the US it makes me glad that in the UK we still have a largely free health care system.

Here too in the UK...