Dev/Learning Environment

I haven't used RS yet as we have leaned on Crystal Reports but I want to
learn and design in RS. We already have a live intranet RS page or two
developed by former employees hence I want to fill that gap of knowledge.
My questions :
While playing and designing, is it better to take my SQL dev box and add RS,
IIS, .net etc or should I just to tap into the live server that's already set
up? Any risks to running dev on the live box?
The data would reside on a third sql server.
Thanks for any best practice advice you can spare.
--
Mike
If data falls in the woods and nobody is there to see it ...... ?One gotcha that I had was getting SharePoint to use RS. Apparenlty I needed
to install some additional DLL to allow SharePoint to display RS as web
parts and for about an hour I had production SP down as things didn't go
smoothly.
I know you didn't mention SP - but in case you are gong to look forward to
it as your web portal.
"Tigermikefl" <Tigermikefl@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I haven't used RS yet as we have leaned on Crystal Reports but I want to
> learn and design in RS. We already have a live intranet RS page or two
> developed by former employees hence I want to fill that gap of knowledge.
> My questions :
> While playing and designing, is it better to take my SQL dev box and add
> RS,
> IIS, .net etc or should I just to tap into the live server that's already
> set
> up? Any risks to running dev on the live box?
> The data would reside on a third sql server.
> Thanks for any best practice advice you can spare.
> --
> Mike
> If data falls in the woods and nobody is there to see it ...... ?