{"id":247,"date":"2013-05-22T23:04:23","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T23:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbsolutions.com\/projects\/?p=247"},"modified":"2022-02-03T11:25:05","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T17:25:05","slug":"report-services-sql-server-install-and-set-up-for-use-with-bentley-autoplant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbsolutions.com\/projects\/report-services-sql-server-install-and-set-up-for-use-with-bentley-autoplant\/","title":{"rendered":"Report Services &#038; SQL Server install and set up for use with Bentley AutoPLANT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am using report services to publish my reports instead of using Crystal Reports for many Bentley AutoPLANT items. Here is my journey over the past couple of weeks:<\/p>\n<h1>Install the Tools<\/h1>\n<p>If you set up SQL Express with Advanced Services &#8211; this is 2008 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-ca\/download\/details.aspx?id=1842\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">download link<\/a>) &#8211; not 2008 R2 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/download\/confirmation.aspx?id=7593\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">download link<\/a>). If you are going to back up a Bentley AutoPLANT database &#8211; you can NOT restore a 2008 R2 database to a 2008 server, you have to use another method.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 15px;\">To make reports, you can use Business Intelligence which comes with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-ca\/download\/details.aspx?id=1842\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SQL 2008 Express with Advanced Services<\/a>\u00a0(thanks Geordie Guenther!)<\/span><\/li>\n<li>A co-worker recommended a really easy tool to make reports that got me 90% of the way (but not advanced) called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-ca\/download\/details.aspx?id=24085\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Microsoft Report Builder 2.0<\/a> (there is a 3.0 but we are still in a 2008 SQL Server world). I really like Bus. Intell because it is like Visual Studio and you can do much more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Get Familiar with things:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>A good book that I bought on Kindle on report services is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Microsoft%C2%AE-Server%C2%AE-Reporting-Services-Microsoft\/dp\/0735626472\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1369263684&amp;sr=8-2&amp;keywords=sql+server+stacia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Microsoft\u00ae SQL Server\u00ae 2008 Reporting Services Step by Step (Step by Step (Microsoft))<\/a><\/li>\n<li>If you are feeling like you need to brush up on T-SQL (Microsoft&#8217;s SQL) then the book is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Beginning-T-SQL-Microsoft-Server-2005\/dp\/0470257032\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1369263774&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=beginning+t-sql+turley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Beginning T-SQL with Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and 2008<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am using report services to publish my reports instead of using Crystal Reports for many Bentley AutoPLANT items. Here is my journey over the past couple of weeks: Install the Tools If you set up SQL Express with Advanced Services &#8211; this is 2008 (download link) &#8211; not 2008 R2 (download link). 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