"Cooper" <Cooper@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I know this is jumping the gun a bit, but my company is about to move to a
> Reporting Services platform and rewrite a ton of reports. With that being
> said there are also alot of features being talked about that we want to
use
> in the coming 2005 version of Reporting Services. I am not sure if this
can
> be answered yet, but does anyone know if the migration from 2000 to 2005
is
> planned to be easy or is the product changing significantly?

"Wayne Snyder" <wayne.nospam.snyder@mariner-usa.com> wrote in message
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> While I certainly can not speak to Microsoft's intentions, I have been
> using
> the beta RS for SQL 2005 for a while now and the RDL looks very similar,
> and
> a lot of the functionality is very similiar, I beleive conversion wil be
> (mostly) easy...
>
> --
> Wayne Snyder, MCDBA, SQL Server MVP
> Mariner, Charlotte, NC
> www.mariner-usa.com
> (Please respond only to the newsgroups.)
>
> I support the Professional Association of SQL Server (PASS) and it's
> community of SQL Server professionals.
> www.sqlpass.org
>
> "Cooper" <Cooper@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:B0AEFD2B-96C4-4AF1-A2C8-2B77FCB93D08@microsoft.com...
>> I know this is jumping the gun a bit, but my company is about to move to
>> a
>> Reporting Services platform and rewrite a ton of reports. With that being
>> said there are also alot of features being talked about that we want to
> use
>> in the coming 2005 version of Reporting Services. I am not sure if this
> can
>> be answered yet, but does anyone know if the migration from 2000 to 2005
> is
>> planned to be easy or is the product changing significantly?
>
>

"Brian Welcker [MSFT]" <bwelcker@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:OUrLkzaBFHA.2392@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> We do have some changes coming in RDL but we will be backward compatible
> with SQL 2000 RDLs.
>
> --
> Brian Welcker
> Group Program Manager
> Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services
>
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
rights.
>
> "Wayne Snyder" <wayne.nospam.snyder@mariner-usa.com> wrote in message
> news:eDxDo9I$EHA.208@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> > While I certainly can not speak to Microsoft's intentions, I have been
> > using
> > the beta RS for SQL 2005 for a while now and the RDL looks very similar,
> > and
> > a lot of the functionality is very similiar, I beleive conversion wil be
> > (mostly) easy...
> >
> > --
> > Wayne Snyder, MCDBA, SQL Server MVP
> > Mariner, Charlotte, NC
> > www.mariner-usa.com
> > (Please respond only to the newsgroups.)
> >
> > I support the Professional Association of SQL Server (PASS) and it's
> > community of SQL Server professionals.
> > www.sqlpass.org
> >
> > "Cooper" <Cooper@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:B0AEFD2B-96C4-4AF1-A2C8-2B77FCB93D08@microsoft.com...
> >> I know this is jumping the gun a bit, but my company is about to move
to
> >> a
> >> Reporting Services platform and rewrite a ton of reports. With that
being
> >> said there are also alot of features being talked about that we want to
> > use
> >> in the coming 2005 version of Reporting Services. I am not sure if this
> > can
> >> be answered yet, but does anyone know if the migration from 2000 to
2005
> > is
> >> planned to be easy or is the product changing significantly?
> >
> >
>
>