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Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS) is a special version of Visual Studio that is used to develop projects for SSIS, SSAS, and SSRS.

How to create a report with sections and page breaks using SSRS

I'm trying to create a report that looks like this: using a select from this table: (fiddler here for query …

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There was an exception running the extensions specified in the config file. Maximum request length exceeded

I have a report part which deployed perfectly every time I made any changes until today. The report has around 20 …

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How to execute a Process Task where the Executable path comes from a user Variable

I have an SSIS package that includes a Process Task. The process task needs to execute batch file. The location …

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BIDS for Visual Studio 2015

Does anyone know if/when the BIDS add-on will be available for VS2015? It's the only thing holding us back …

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How can I "specify a dataset aggregate" in this SSRS Expression?

I need a row value in my SSRS report that is a calculated one based on a couple of fields …

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Set Tablix row height to a specific number in SQL Server Report Builder 3.0?

I'm trying to set the row height of the detail row to a specific value, like 0.5 in. If I click …

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How to get BIDS for Visual Studio 2008 SP1?

I currently use Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and have been migrating older projects into VS2008 but existing SSIS and SSRS (2005) projects …

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SSRS Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to completion of the operation or the server is not responding

I have a reporting solution with several reports. Up to now, I have been able to add a dataset based …

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SSIS Expressions setting two variables

I'm trying to use an "Expression Task" within SSIS to simply initialize/set two variables. This seemingly simple task has …

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Trying to process the cube but getting the error at impersonation information

I have built a cube in Business Development Intelligent Studio(BIDS) using some database with the name 'Test_cube' which …

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