Justin Cooney

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I am a Senior Applications Programmer / Analyst with years of experience developing enterprise solutions using the Microsoft technology stack including C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, AJAX, IIS and SQL Server. I specialize in Web application development with a focus on building secure systems, integrating applications, and designing robust database structures.

Category: SQL Server Reporting Services

  • Using Regular Expressions in SSRS to get the Server Name Portion of a URL

    SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) has an in-built function called Globals!ReportServerUrl that allows you to return the URL of the SSRS report on the server. If you are looking at customizing part of your SSRS report depending on the Server that it is hosted on, then this is a useful function.

  • SSRS Adding User Selectable Parameter Options

    SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) is a handy tool for generating reports quickly. However, like most reporting packages, making the reports dynamic rather than simple static canned reports takes a bit of effort. For example, you may want to let the users of your report choose from a list of options. You could then apply these…

  • SSRS Basics: Set up Visual Studio to Write a New SSRS Report

    When first looking into writing SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) Reports in Visual Studio, it’s easy to think that creating a report will be possible straight out of the box with one of the existing templates that Visual Studio comes with. Somewhat surprisingly, this is not the case for Visual Studio 2012 and 2013.