Here I am after a week of putting Windows 7 to the test while working frantically on a tight timeline project and am happy to say that all is well. It has crashed a time or two and I still cannot install Visio 2007 or SQL Server 2008 Developer Edition, but I am still pleased. It seems to be faster than XP and I quickly got the hang of using the UI and the search feature. There are quite a few handy conveniences that will make life easier such as the RDP client has a recently used list. I went ahead...
I decided to join in on the fad and perform a dual boot installation of Windows 7 RTM on my laptop with Windows XP. I am working on a project with a pretty tight timeline so installing from scratch was way too risky. I took the advice from some of my co-workers and went for the dual boot option by creating a partition using Acronis Disk Director in which to install the new OS. I created a 30 GB partition and started installing with the DVD that was created from the ISO. The installation was super...
While http://en.wikipedia.org/wik... outlines some limitations of SQL Server Express, there are some specifics that are missing for Reporting Services. One such example is what I discovered today while at a client that uses DB2 for its RDBMS. SSRS that comes with the Express Edition only supports creating reports against the local SQL Server data source. Be aware of this when considering SQL Server Express in your system design. http://www.microsoft.com/te...