Reporting Services 2000 with SQL Server 2005 data sources

All,

I apologize for not doing the legwork to see if i can answer my own question, but I am close to a loosely planned SQL 2005 migration and don't have time and resources to test my own theories.

Is there a way for a Reporting Services 2000 server to connect to SQL server 2005 databases? I've tried creating a new data source and changing a report to this data source, but it seems like the report is still using the old data source. I'm guessing i might need to register new data providers on the 2000 RS server and then change the existsing data sources.

Ideas?

Thx in advance,

-Peter

Yes, a report installed on Reporting Services 2000 (SRS) can source data for a report from SQL 2005 by setting the data source with the correct connection string. There shouldn't be a problem.

Larry

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The correct connection string seems to be "Data Source=<SQLServerName>;Initial Catalog=<DBNAme>" using the "Microsoft SQL Server" data source type. Fortunately, this was the same as our SQL 2000 data sources, so we had to change nothing. The 2000 BOL docs just aren't very clear on the details of each data source type.

Also, the gigantic document, SQL2005UpgradeTechRef.doc, doesn't really talk much about the dependencies between upgrading the RDBMS and the RS.

Thanks for the reply,

-Peter

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