Mike Mayfield Asked: What reporting features of
Answered: Mike, Niranjan is going to cover this in subsequent slides ..In case, the seminar does not answer all your questions, feel free to send us a mail at nxt@aditi.com
Susan Asked: I've heard a number of times that SSRS is free...so is it? Will he be going over costs later in the presentation?
Answered: Yes, SRS comes free with Std or enterprise version of SQL Server. Though based on your deployment scenarios, you will need to understand the licensing model better. Niranjan is covering this later in the webinar...
Rob Ramsey Asked: Can reports be saved as Word Documents?
Answered Privately: Niranjan is covering this later. SRS does not support this out of the box. This can be implemented as a custom extention
Sandeep Madduri Asked: Is there a way I could get a copy of these slides?
Answered: Yes, You can use File -> Print to PDF anytime during the webinar.
Aloke Asked: How about delivering to a website & dashboards?
Answered: SRS can be integrated with Sharepoint POrtal Server. Infact, there are a bunch of out of the box webparts available for this.
Leonid Asked: Report Builder with custom security - how to pass credentials in code without being prompted for user name and password?
Answered Privately: Leonid, this is a very specific question and might not get covered in the webinar. Please feel free to send us your question to nxt@aditi.com
Andrew Wheeler Asked: Can you campare how both products would deal with the scenerio of reporting within one report data from two different data base types. As in a report that joins data at the report engine between a DB2 data base and a SQL Server database
Answered Privately: Andrew, I will have Niranjan take this question at the end of the webinar
Steven Wong Asked: Is this presentation also true for Business Objects XI R2? Crystal Enterprise was consolidated into BO XI R2, no?
Answered: We have considered Crystal Report XI only for the feature comparison. So the answer is No.
Leonid Asked: Is there a restriction on a number of concurrent users in SSRS?
Answered: There is no restriction that we are aware of for Std and Ent editions. Though, there is a case study where in July 2005 by a 64-way Hewlett-Packard server running SQL Server 2005 that was able to maintain 93,000 concurrent users
Jennifer L Asked: Does SSRS only work with SQL Server 2005 or can it work on Sql Server 2000?
Answered: Both SQL 2000 and SQL 2005 come with their respective versions of SRS. So if you are using SQL 2000, you can use SRS 2000
Russ Asked: Is Visual Basic the only code that you can use to customize expressions?
Answered: Yes, Visual Basic is the only language supported currently for math expressions.
Jay Hilyard Asked: You can write custom expression assemblies in any .NET language though, can't you?
Answered Privately: Yes, that is correct. Though you will need to call the assembly using VB :)
Don Hamilton Asked: Is IIS required to access reports?
Don Hamilton Asked: Is IIS required to access reports?
Answered: Yes, IIS is required
B Asked: Can we integrate report builder into windows application
Answered Privately: Report BUilder is a SmartClient which can be installed using CLickOnce. There are no ActiveX controls available currently to integrate with a winform client
Jay Hilyard Asked: Can you comment on using data regions vs. subreports? When to use which and performance implications? There seem to be varying opinions on this
Answered: Jay, we might not be able to take this question in this session, can you contact us at nxt@aditi.com ?
Sandeep Madduri Asked: What performance issues would we encounter if we run more than Report Server instance on the same IIS web server?
Answered Privately: Sandeep, We might not be able to answer this question in this session, can you contact us at nxt@aditi.com
GeraldH Asked: Can you access multiple data sources if you do so through a stored procedure via OPENROWSET?
Answered Privately: Gerald, We might not be able to answer this question in this session because of time contraint, can you contact us at nxt@aditi.com