Reporting Services Performance and Scalability Technical Notes

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:15:29 GMT

Over the next few months, I will be publishing a series of technical notes on sqlcat.com that provide guidance on how to build and deploy large scale SQL Server Reporting Services environments. This series provides general guidance on how to set up, implement, and optimize an enterprise scale-out architecture for your SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) environment; these notes provide guidance for both SQL Server 2005 and 2008 Reporting Services.

Reporting Services Scale-Out Architecture: The focus of this technical note is the Reporting Services scale-out architecture, which is referenced throughout this technical note series.

Report Catalog Best Practices: Provides guidance and best practices on the report server catalogs—the underlying databases that provide metadata (parameters, snapshots, history, etc.) used by Reporting Services to provide your reports.

SSRS Scale-Out Deployment Best Practices [link provided when published]: Provides guidance and best practices on deployment details for scaling out your Reporting Services environment including configurations and the use of File System snapshots.

SSRS Performance Optimization Configurations [link provided when published]: Provides guidance and best practices on using specific Reporting Services features and configurations to optimize the performance of your Reporting Services environment.

SSRS Troubleshooting Tips [link provided when published]: Provides various troubleshooting tips that are helpful to better understand issues that may occur within your Reporting Services environment

Correction to our PASS Reporting Services Slides

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 07:38:30 GMT

As some of you may or may not know, Lukasz Pawlowski and I had presented the deck Building & Deploying Large Scale SSRS farms using Lessons Learned from Customer Deployments (DBA-416-M) at the 2007 SQL PASS conference. In one of our slides, I had indicated inexplictly that "RS runs only on x64 only". I must have been guilty of copying/pasting from some other slides because RS 2005 indeed does work on IA64 (there are many customers that can attest to that). In general, x64 is a more common deployment for RS because it is often less expensive (and IA64 being reserved for SQL). Saying this, yes, RS2005 does work on IA64.

If you want to know more information about Reporting Services, please don't forget to head to Lukasz's excellent blog Musings on Reporting Services and Notification Services.

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Reporting Services Performance and Scalability Technical Notes

Correction to our PASS Reporting Services Slides