>>>>>>Actually wish I could attend.
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>>>>>>One question (mainly for Bill, hopefully he'll see this) - will there be a slide deck available? Thanks
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>>>>>Well, if you were there, I'd feel like someone teaching iambic pentameter with Shakespeare sitting in the room.
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>>>>>I haven't decided on slides yet, but if I use them, I'll share them.
>>>>>So far I'm planning a series of demo's that show how to use some of SSRS' basic features and show various deployment strategies.
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>>>>Just curious, how did it go? Wanted to attend but couldn't get away.
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>>>Just today a client called and asked if I could handle a one-time request (they never are) from their client for an Excel spreadsheet of some selected SQL Server data.
>>>With SSRS, that's a snap.
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>>I get these requests from customers to convert data from Excel to SQL Server database all the time. Your words make me want to learn SSRS even more (which I have been putting off learning SSRS for a long time).
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>Bill wasn't talking about converting Excel data into SQL Server. He was talking about creating a spreadsheet containing some data that's already in SQL Server.
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>Tamar

Yes, that's what I meant.
I use office automation to go the other way.