Report Builder 3.0 Crash When Creating Dataset - reporting-services

Morning folks.
This problem is very isolated but very annoying. It only happens with one customer I do work for, and can happen when creating new datasets or amending existing ones, but doesnt happen every time.
So lets start with a new dataset. I right-click and Add Dataset, I give the dataset a name, select the data source and then select Stored Procedure. This is where the fun begins. I start to type the SP name and BOOM, Report Builder crashes. I know I can just pick off the list but in the case of this client, the list of SPs is massive, so starting to type the name narrows down the list.
This can also happen if I amended the name of an SP within an existing dataset.
It has to be something to do with configuration as this doesnt happen with any of my other customers. The only difference with this site is they use Citrix but I cant see how that would affect this.
So, Report Builder 3.0 connecting to a SQL Server 2008 R2 instance. Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance

It seems not the issue on SSRS side, please let the user connect the database and execute the SP directly to check the performance. It also can be some hardware or configuration issue on that client's machine. You can suggest him use Process Monitor to fetch some detail information.

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SSRS randomly gets error for parameter - solution is to rebuild report...then it happens again

I am pretty experienced in SSRS, I have been doing it for quite some time so I know when I see the error:
"An error has occurred during report processing. (rsProcessingAborted)
An attempt was made to set a data set parameter '#SiteId' that is not defined in this data set. (rsUnknownDataSetParameter)"
I know what causes this error and can fix it. However, this error randomly happens every so often. What I end up doing is simply rebuilding the project and redeploying it and all is well for a few days, then suddenly again this same error will pop up again.
I know there is no issue with the parameter as I have a #SiteId parameter as shown:
So when I get an email from a user that "The Report Is Down" I just go to my report and rebuild and republish and the error vanishes without ANY other changes. A few days later when they want to run the report again this same error happens. What is causing this issue to come back over and over. We are running SQL Server 2016 with SSRS. It happens to ANY one of my reports on the report server. Its not a specific project it randomly happens on any project.
EDIT
What I did notice does happen is when a user reports this issue I go to the "Manage" of a report on the report server url. This area is where you find the properties, data sources, and parameters. When I click parameters I see this error:
So obviously something is destroying the parameters - that is where I am confused what is causing that. This is probably why I am getting the error message. So to reiterate a report is published works...suddenly the parameters go missing. User reports "the report no longer works" I rebuild and redeploy the report...it then works again for a day or so maybe more than a day I never investigated how long it takes for it to break again (as these are not urgent reports). Days later user says report is dead again...if I go to the report server using the report server url and click "Manage" and then click "Parameters" for some reason the parameters have disappeared...causing me to yet again redeploy. This happens over and over and over. It never ends...
The short of it is you cannot have the same shared dataset name across different SSRS Projects that are on the same SSRS server.
So within our SSRS "repository" we have several different SSRS projects. Both projects are very specific to certain functionality. What I noticed is everytime I deployed one of these SSRS projects the reports on the other project would stop working.
When the email would come from the user stating Application A's reports werent working I'd go to Application A's SSRS project and redeploy it and it would fix the issue. Days later a different user said Application B's reports weren't working so I would redeploy application B's. Not knowing that when I deployed A's reports B's would break, and vice versa deploying B's broke A's.
Come to find out....both projects had a shared dataset with the SAME NAME (dsEmployees). Same name however these datasets pointed to different sprocs with different parameters. Well when you deploy and look at the back end db the Catalog table only has one entry for dsEmployees. Everytime I redeployed this would overwrite with the other dataset since the names were the same.
Lesson learned across different SSRS projects be careful with the shared dataset name, they must be different. I was able to spot the difference by running the following query:
SELECT
c.Name,
c2.*,
c2.Parameter
FROM
DataSets d
INNER JOIN
[Catalog] c
ON
c.ItemID = d.ItemID
INNER JOIN
[Catalog] c2
ON
c2.ItemID = d.LinkID
WHERE
--one specific report for now
d.ItemID='C3008EF4-E544-48F3-92C1-2222C6148B13'
When the report was stated not to work. Then I would redeploy the report and rerun that sql statement I wrote and dumped the rows to an excel sheet to compare. One of those columns is Parameters and I noticed the parameters were slightly different. Immediately I was onto something and this ended up being it. Thanks to comment posted it helped me relook at this! This has bugged me for years!

Reporting services error trying to access a object that isn't called in the report

have a strange one. We are running Sql Server 11.0.3000. The report is giving an error
An error has occurred during report processing. (rsProcessingAborted)
Query execution failed for dataset 'Audit_Detail'. (rsErrorExecutingCommand)
Invalid object name 'dbAudit.tblRangeReport'.
The thing is, the report uses 3 stored procs to go after data in a database called dbSalarySurvey. The three sp's do not mention the dbAudit.tblRangeReport. There are no functions or views in the 3 sp's that access that table. Further more, if i run the report in VS 2012 the report runs. If i run profiler on the dbAudit table when VS runs the report, the report does not query the dbAudit table. Only when running the report from the web browser do i get this error. This more detailed version of the error come from running the report on the Sql Server REporting services computer.
I have tried restarting the reporting services service. We have also deleted this one report from the reporting services server and republished it. Have also tried to republish the dataset. Other reports in this project that use the datasource and the same tables run.
Anyway, was wondering if anyone had any sugguestions.
Thanks
shannon
It's fixed. it was a pebkak error in the stored proc. It's really strange though. Honest to goodness, the proc was running in my dev env but not when running from a browser. I had already checked profiler like was suggested below and done the xml scan too. In the end.. just missed it i guess.
You need to trace the SQL to determine.
Are you connecting to the right database?
Are the procs you expecting to see, the ones actually being run?
The procs you are running are correct?
Open SQL Server Profiler
Start New Trace
Click Event Selection, Select the following events
Click - Show All columns
Go into Column Filters
and filter on your DB, and possibly even your login name (the login name of the SSRS server)
Once you've done that, call your report and look to make sure all the procs are called that you expect. Track issues from there.

SSAS Tabular - Data is stale

I have a tabular model that I've processed and deployed.
I'm having a problem getting SSRS to reflect the newly deployed information. I have a shared Dataset accessing a shared Data Source. When I run the MDX in the query designer of the Dataset, the correct numbers are returned. When I run the report, however, the old numbers still show. I've tried deleting the .DATA file but it didn't help.
EDIT:
I've verified that the problem is in the SSAS database itself. I queried it with drillthrough from SSMS and saw that it is returning rows that aren't in the source views any more. They used to be, but no longer.
This almost seems to be some crazy caching issue. I've rebooted and dropped/redeployed the SSAS database and no luck.
Any thoughts?
I would suggest a few steps.
Ensure you are connecting to the correct tabular model.
Expand the tables in the tabular model, and right click one of the tables and click "Process". Check all the additional tables in the model.
Change "Process Default" to "Process Full" (Process default does not always work correctly)
Click Ok.
You should now see the model process table by table.
I would close and re-open the report.
Actually I would completely ignore the BIDS / Visual Studio Preview pane as it is riddled with bugs and inconsistencies and proves nothing (assuming your end users aren't using Visual Studio).
Instead I would deploy the report for each test run to a test environment / folder on the host server (Report Manager / SharePoint). As well as being a realistic and meaningful test, this has many advantages such as being able to leave multiple IE tabs open with various parameter combinations set, then just refresh them after a Deploy to retest.

SSRS 2008 R2 Repeat One-Time Subscription

I am wanting to create a one-time SSRS shared schedule that can be altered once run, to execute again at a future point in time. The reason I am having to set-up a subscription in this way is because I need to email a set of reports based on a bespoke accounting calendar; we don't have enterprise so data-driven is not an option.
I have tested this method in the ReportServer.dbo.Subscription and Schedule tables, but have so far not managed to get it to work. I have updated the NextRunTime and StartTime columns of the Schedule table to the time I require the reports to be sent, and this appears to update on the Report Server Shared Schedules page (Next Run) but the email does not send.
Is there another table on the ReportServer database that I need to update, or is this simply not possible?
Thanks
Andy
I suggest taking a look at the article below. It details how to set up data driven subscriptions on SQL Server Standard Edition, and goes through manually activating subscriptions via SQL Server Agent.
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Development/datadrivensubscriptions/2432/
I've used if for a couple of clients and it generally works pretty well. The only thing I've since altered is increasing the timer to 10 seconds between running each data driven report.
Regards,
Jason
In reading up on this, messing abound in the tables is not supported by Microsoft. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!
I attempted the very same thing. When you change a subscription on the front end, the ReportServer.dbo.Schedule.StartDate column changes with each edit. I tried just altering this value, but adding a value here made no difference. There was no email and when I went back to my subscription in the SSRS webpage, the original datetime value was there. So that datetime must be stored elsewhere.
I did a SQL Trace and found these Sproc's were being called. I copied out the lines that looked promising. By changing the time value #active_start_time=160400 in the last one and running the entire batch, I could get an emailed report at the desired time. But I am not content with this; because when I go back and view My Subscriptions webpage, the original datetime is still listed.
exec msdb.dbo.sp_delete_job #job_name=N'D478A346-ED05-422D-A73E-023080AD56DD'
exec msdb.dbo.sp_add_job #job_name=N'D478A346-ED05-422D-A73E-023080AD56DD',#description=N'This job is owned by a report server process. Modifying this job could result in database incompatibilities. Use Report Manager or Management Studio to update this job.',#category_id=101
exec msdb.dbo.sp_add_jobserver #job_name=N'D478A346-ED05-422D-A73E-023080AD56DD',#server_name =N'(LOCAL)'
exec msdb.dbo.sp_add_jobstep #job_name=N'D478A346-ED05-422D-A73E-023080AD56DD',#step_name=N'D478A346-ED05-422D-A73E-023080AD56DD_step_1',#command=N'exec [ReportServer$instanceDB].dbo.AddEvent #EventType=''TimedSubscription'', #EventData=''db7d7b08-3eee-4bb8-b354-b58c653b8ab6'''
exec msdb.dbo.sp_add_jobschedule #job_name=N'D478A346-ED05-422D-A73E-023080AD56DD',#name=N'Schedule_1',#freq_type=1,#active_start_date=20180405,#active_start_time=160400,#freq_subday_type=1

MS Reporting Services - Slow Reports

I created an annonymous SSRS web wrapper that had been working without error for several months. Recently we've had our year end release and the production version has had problems with, to my knowledge, one report. The Dev and Test environment produce the report without error it's just production where it has been failing. We've began to trouble shoot the problem with the following results:
The execution time for the stored procedure can at times be in seconds and other times in excess of 20 minutes.
The above is also true for rendering the report using report manager.
Once you get to the SSRS wrapper it completely fails. Even so considering there is a fluctuation in the amount of time the stored procedure executes it seems to me that even if I set the wrapper to not have a timeout the stored procedure may still be the culprit.
As for the report server, I'm not the DBA so I'm not familiar with the rs.config files. Also, I read something about the settings being set a certain way using IIS 6. According to the DBA it does not run off of IIS 6. Again, this is something I'm not familiar with.
Another thing I have a question about is parameter sniffing. There are three parameters being sent in, one for the City set as Text in RB 3.0 and Varchar in SQL, the month and year both set as int in RB 3.0 as well as integer in sql.
I know for a fact that the first time this error came about the server was reset and the report was produced without error. Since then they have been able to stabilize the server but now the report does not render. Anyone with trouble shooting advice please come to the rescue.
I have a negative one. Sorry about the bad question. Anyway, the problem was the stored procedure. The DBA told me he had to reset the statistics.