I've installed SQL Server 2012, after I've installed all features including report services. I go to Report Manager link and wanted to add New Data Source, but in Data Source Types there is only Microsoft SQL Server and I want to add Oracle Data Source.
Other way I easily connected to Oracle Data Source in Business Inteligence Studio, but I can't deploy Report file (.rdl) to my report manager because it gives me an error message:
An attempt has been made to use a data extension 'ORACLE' that is either not registered for this report server or is not supported in this edition of Reporting Services.
Does anyone have any idea how to fix this?
You should install the .NET Framework Data Provider for Oracle on the server hosting the SSRS instance to be able to target an Oracle database.
Here is a link to download the latest version on Oracle.
Remarks
Before you can connect an Oracle data source, the system administrator must have installed the version of the .NET Data
Provider for Oracle that supports retrieving data from the Oracle
database. This data provider must be installed on the same computer as
Report Builder and also on the report server.
Source: Oracle Connection Type (SSRS)
Useful resources:
Using the .NET Framework Data Provider for Oracle
How to use Reporting Services to configure and to access an Oracle data source
If you are using the Express edition of SQL Server, then Oracle Data Sources are not supported:
Analysis Services, Oracle, XML, SAP, SQL Server Integration Services
(SSIS), OLE DB, and ODBC data sources are not supported.
Source: Features Supported by Reporting Services in SQL Server Express
It applies to SSRS 2012 Express as well, as stated in this post.
Related
I am trying to connect with Oracle 12c database using SSRS 2012.
Getting the following error. I cannot change any property of Oracle db but can change the version of SSDT if required.
A connection to an Oracle db requires Oracle Client software to be installed. It sounds like you do not have it installed or have a lower version.
To use data from an Oracle database in your report, you must have a
dataset that's based on a report data source of type Oracle. This
built-in data source type uses the Oracle Data Provider directly and
requires an Oracle client software component.
Oracle Connection Type (SSRS, Power BI Report Server, and Report Builder) - MS Docs
Check out the MS Docs for links are more information. Unfortunately, our OPs did this and haven't done this myself.
Our organization has a Windows server running SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). We use SSRS to build reports that access an Oracle database. We were able to get SSRS to connect to our Oracle database by installing Oracle Data Access Components (ODAC) for Windows on our server. We installed the Xcopy versions - both 32-bit and 64-bit (don't know if we needed to do both; SSRS used to only accept 32-bit drivers). We were able to successfully set up a data source in SSRS that connected to the Oracle database.
However, we write our reports on development machines using SQL Server Report Builder 3.0. When building a report that uses a shared data source on the server - the one that accesses our Oracle database, we get the error
The selected data extension ORACLE is not installed or cannot be loaded...
What do we need to do to be able to write reports from our development machines that use a shared data source to our Oracle database?
You need to install ODAC on your development machines as well. Even though you are configuring your report to use a shared data source on the server, Report Builder 3.0 will use connection drivers on the local machine to build and preview report data.
Report Builder 3.0 still seems to be a 32-bit application (as of 6/3/2016), so you only need to install 32-bit ODAC package.
I'm unable to generate a report from the web based interface (Report Manager). The same report in my Visual Studio project works perfectly.
The error which appear when trying to generate the report from the web is
"Cannot create a connection to data source"
The log file error is the fallowing
Cannot get edition information from catalog server.
The report data is retreived from an SQL Azure database.
How come the report can work inside my Visual Studio project but no more once deployed?
I've tried both SQL Server 2012 and SQL Server 2008 on fresh machines and both gives the same result.
Thanks,
After a half day of troubleshooting this issue, I discovered it was because the edition of SSRS I am using does not support Azure SQL Databases as a data source.
I am using 2008 Express Advanced Edition. It appears Standard or above is required for this.
See this article for more information:
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/blogs/sqltact/2016/09/25/sql-ssrs-express-edition-cannot-connect-to-azure-sql-databases/
An error has occurred during report processing. (rsProcessingAborted)
Cannot create a connection to data source 'DSView'. (rsErrorOpeningConnection)
The feature: "The edition of Reporting Services that you are using requires that you use local SQL Server relational databases for report data sources and the report server database." is not supported in this edition of Reporting Services. (rsOperationNotSupported)
Hi, I have encountered the above mentioned error while doing an SSRS project. And from the research, it seems like it is SQL server related issue.
I am trying to access a remote SQL server....so I was wondering how can I get rid of that error?
Do I have to install SQL server Standard edition on my local machine or the server that I am trying to access should be installed with Sql Standard edition?
I have got Express editions installed on both my local machine and the server...
Thx
From Books Online:
Report data sources must be SQL Server relational databases that run
locally in SQL Server Express.
Features Supported by Reporting Services in SQL Server Express.
With SQL Server Express you can only use a Data Source where the database engine is from the same instance running SSRS.
If you need to connect to other instances your only options are to get a backup restored to your local instance or to install a SQL Server edition that allows remote Data Sources; most likely Developer for your own needs or Standard or above for any production instances.
It depends on what's allowed under your specific licencing agreement.
A neat way to get around this (that just worked for me) is to add a Linked Server on the Local machine to point to the server that hosts your remote data source.
Then modify your Dataset query in the SSRS report to look something like this...
select * from openquery(REMOTE_SERVER,'Put your original query here');
Do Reporting Services in SQL Server 2008 support export to CSV? I only see Excel/Word/PDF in the dropdown list on in the SSRS localhost server when previewing report. I found in internet that SSRS 2008 seems to support CSV but I don't see it; is it Express limitation? I haven't found any notes about this limitation.
CSV export is not supported in the Express edition:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc281020.aspx
The following list describes the features that are documented in SQL Server Books Online, but cannot be used in this edition:
Scheduled report processing, caching,
snapshots, subscriptions, and
delivery are not supported.
Analysis Services, Oracle, XML, SAP,
SQL Server Integration Services
(SSIS), OLE DB, and ODBC data sources
are not supported.
Remote data sources are not
supported. Reports that are hosted in
a SQL Server Express report server
must retrieve SQL Server relational
data from a local SQL Server Express
Database Engine instance.
Ad hoc reporting through semantic
models and Report Builder is not
supported.
TIFF (Image), XML, and CSV rendering
extensions are not supported.
The Reporting Services API extensible
platform for delivery, data
processing, rendering, and security
is not supported.
Custom authentication extensions and
custom role assignments are not
supported. You must map existing
Windows domain user and group
accounts to predefined role
definitions.
Custom report items are not
supported.
Managing a long-running report
process is not supported.
Specifically, you cannot use the
Manage Jobs feature in Report Manager
to stop report processing.
Scale-out deployment is not
supported.
SharePoint integrated mode is not
supported.
Report Builder 2.0 is not supported.
Report Builder 2.0 can connect to a
SQL Server Express database on the
local computer or on a remote report
server.