Well, not quite. Microsoft has not actually bought Dundas but they have bought the code base for the charting, gauge, calendar, map and barcode controls. This is excellent news - I've used Dundas charting in various guises for a number of years and Dundas Rocks with the depth and breadth of the suite. Adding this functionality to Reporting Services is a huge step and the reports look phenomenal and the decrease in processor load is cool. I was fortunate enough to be hanging out at the VSTS 2010 (Visual Studio Team System 2010) boothe with Stephanie Saad and a few of the built in reports for bug trends, convergence etc..

The only drag is the set of deprecated settings, objects and methods in the Query language like the ORDER BY clause cannot be prefixed with the alias. In other words you need to use the ColumnName which is usually longer (more typing), lol… can you tell I hate typingJ. Also, several full-text search features, settings and objects have been modified in SQL Server 2008 and many of your existing settings will not be maintained whenyou upgrade. This means you will need to be more rigorous in your testing and QA prior to migrating apps to PROD on SQL 2008.

I would have loved to be moving all my clients to SQL 2008 for a number of reasons but folks who have developed there apps in house and are not off the shelf Microsoft Products will need to use the Upgrade Advisor and its going to take a few months longer than I initially expected.

-Ivan

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