Is it possible to design a 2008 SSRS report and use it in a CRM 4 application. 2008 Has much nicer controls and report designer.
Yes, it is more dependent on the backing database. If CRM is setup with SQL Server 2008 it will support Report Builder 2008 reports. If SQL Server 2005, the reports will need to be built in Visual Studio 2005 with the Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS) installed. 2005 reports can be easily upgraded to 2008 reports but 2008 reports are not backwards compatible and cannot be easily converted back to 2005 reports.
You can setup a SQL Server 2008 SSRS instance and use that for reporting while continuing to use SQL 2005 for the database.
Everything is explained here: CRM and SSRS 2008 Integration
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I am using SQL Server 2008 R2 Express for the development environment whereas I have SQL Server Enterprise Edition on the server. I want now to generate reports using Report Builder with SQL Server Express then deploy it to the server. So can I use it with the Express Edition?
According to this LINK; it shows that the Express Edition has some of the reporting capabilities such as report designer.
Reporting Builder as in ssrs (bids) is not included int the Express Edition.
You can let users create their own reports via the Report builder based on predefined reporting models, for that you will have to create reporting models in BIDS (which is not included in Express).
I developed RDL using SSRS 2008 and when I deploy the reports on SSRS 2005 running server, It resulted below Error.
"The report definition is not valid. Details: The report definition
has an invalid target namespace
'http:/schemas.microsoft.com/sqlserver/reporting/2008/01/reportdefinition'
which cannot be upgraded."
Any idea how can I deploy my reports without recreating the reports on SSRS 2005.
There are significant differences between SSRS 2008 and SSRS 2005. I don't think there is any easy way to deploy a 2008 .rdl to 2005.
There were some hacks that would let you deploy a 2005 .rdl to a SSRS 2000 server; but the differences in those formats were minor.
SSRS 2008 started using the tablix control for tables, lists and matrixes. These controls were different types in SSRS 2005.
Sorry for the bad news, but I think you will need to rebuild the report in 2005 or deploy to a 2008 server.
See Converting SQL2008 RDL file to SQL2005
we would like to upgrade our SQL Server from 2005 to 2008. Unfortunately, we also have a lot of reports based on Reporting Services 2005. If possible we would like avoid upgrading them at this time.
Is it possible to run Reporting Services 2005 of SQL Server 2008?
Yes.
The metadata databases for SSRS 2005 can run on SQL Server 2005 upwards. Which includes SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2.
Note: do not open a report in a later version of BIDS: always use BIDS 2005 in VS 2005 unless you want your reports upgraded. Then you need SSRS 2008.
We are developing in vb.net using Visual Studio 2008 and a SQL 2005 back end database and are looking for a Report Designer that can be used to build reports and give the User the ability to modify and create reports once the software is sold and in use.
Reporting Services ReportBuilder?
is there any difference between ms reporting services & ssrs? Does ssrs succeed ms reporting services?
No, they are both the same thing.
Microsoft reporting services was the original name for an addon service made available in 2004 for SQL server 2000.
Microsoft SQL server reporting services (SSRS) is what it became know as in subsequent releases for SQL server 2005 and SQL server 2008.
The two terms are interchangeable.