I'm writing you because I need some advice.
I'm working on SSRS reports and SQL Server 2012 during my internship for an enterprise. I wrote reports with interaction parameters, but some reports are very slow when someone wants to use/run them on SQL Server Reporting Services. As the enterprise uses Windows integrated security, I can't configure cached reports in order to improve execution time for reports with main (or default) parameters.
At the end, my goal is: if people who need to see reports can receive an email every Sunday for example, with a link for new reports... That could be awesome.
Could someone give me an advice please?
Thank you in advance.
You can schedule Reports on SSRS and send them in Excel format with default parameters. Just click on manage on the report and select subscriptions.
You can even select the emails from a query.
Check this for more info.
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I have created few SSRS reports in SQL server 2012 with Visual Studio 2010 version.
And I have deployed them to one SharePoint Site.
I want to make this automated, so that data available in the reports are up to date.
So, now I would like to create SSIS package which will run periodically to get up to date data using integration services. I am very much new to SSIS. I have tried to look at different sites for this, but I am not getting an exact idea from where to start.
Can anyone please guide me on this? How can I create a WSDL file URL for the SharePoint report? Do I really need it if report is already made in SSRS or do I just want to run that?
Thank you.
Would SSRS caching solve your problem?
Otherwise, there's nothing SSIS specific to solving your problem. You will simply need to use the .NET library to visit the page with the appropriate parameters. Visit your report page and copy the full URL.
Inside a Script Task use that URL as part of the WebClient. You'll probably need to supply credentials with this. No need to deal with storing the output, you'll simply want to validate that you get a 200 message code
Can you clarify what you are trying to achieve? Do you want to automate the running of the Reporting Services reports? In that case you should look at Report Subscriptions.
I have a Specific Merchant report in SSRS and it sent out to different merchants everyday at 8am. But the Problem is they want to receive the report only if they have Transactions on it(Contains Data)
They don't want to receive it if the report is empty.
Is there a way to restrict that in SSSRS? Please let me know.
Take a look at data driven subscriptions. They've been around since SQL Server 2005 and are pretty useful for this kind of thing. Without knowing more about your scenario, I can't explain exactly how it'll work, but I'm certain it can. Check out here for more details:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms169673.aspx
SSRS subscriptions are pretty basic - either you are subscribed to receive a report or you are not. If you want/need to add logic to that you'll need to roll your own using a console application that you can run as a scheduled task and the reporting services API.
I have a problem with Sql Server 2005 Reporting Server where people are receiving old versions of a report whenever the report is sent through a subscription.
I've added a date to the footer of the report, build and deployed it but subscribers still receive an older report.
I am not able to find any known issue or someone with a similar problem and could use some guidance on what to do.
Check Properties -> Execution. There are options there to have the report run based on a cached copy or from a snapshot. If these options are selected, the report will be run from older data in order to increase performance. Disable these to get the latest data.
I have development, test, demo and production systems. They all need to have the same set of reports (easily deployed via Visual Studio, multiple reports at the same time if needed) and the same set of report subscriptions. At this time I have to manually go through the sequence of up to 7 steps in web UI for report manager to deploy or modify each subscription on each system.
Is there a way to automate/improve creation/modification of report subscriptions? I use SSRS 2008.
I've cheated in the past and manipulated the reporting database in SQL Server, you could dig around in there and see if you can figure out the records you need to add.
I'm having trouble figuring this out.
I stopped ALL of local SQL Services, e.g. SQL Server, SQL Agent, Reporting Services. Then using Report Builder 2.0 to create a report connecting to a remote SQL Server (No SSRS running) out in the farm. When I click on "Run" button, for some odd reasons, it still render the report.
I thought you must have SSRS running in the first place. Is SQL Reporting Services even required for Report Builder?
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When Reporting Services runs a report, it creates a data file of the data used in the report and, if nothing changes, it uses that data the next time the report runs instead of hitting the server again. You could be seeing the cached data.
Look where the report is kept. There will be a report file, say MyReport.rdl and also the data, MyReport.rdl.data. You could delete that data file otherwise simply changing the report parameters (if you have some) will generally cause the report to disregard the cached data and make a trip to the server again.
I'm answering my own question. Here's my observation after some googling and experimenting.
Report Builder is using a stand alone report control to render report. Visual Studio.NET is probably using the same thing when preview a report. SSRS is required when developers need to incorporate web-based reporting solution, e.g. ASP.NET, as well as to manage reports.
What's really bothering me is that to author reports in VS.NET, I must be using Business Intelligence Projects. In order to do that, I must install SQL Server 2005/2008 with SSRS. Why is so when SSRS is not even required in a LOCAL environment?