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Displaying Hexadecimal Characters in Reporting Services Report

How do I properly display hexadecimal characters in an SSRS report? These characters: http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/entities/special.html E.g., “ should display as left double ...
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why would command text not execute at all?

in my report i have:: <CommandText>SELECT column1, column2, 'poop' from mytable </CommandText> i am using sql server profiler to see exactly what statement is ...
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Can I run a Report Server and a Mirror server from a working Log Shipping secondary instance?

Our setup: City A - Primary server for logshipping City B - Secondary server for logshipping Now there is a lot of data being updated from A - B. And the server in City B is underutilized, and it ...
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Does installing SQL Server Database Engine and Reporting Services in Azure require two virtual machines?

We are evaluating moving a large-ish web application comprising ASP.NET, Classic ASP and SQL Server Reporting Services into Azure, and we want to know the "best practice" for installing the Database ...
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Are SQL Server in-place upgrades as ill advised as they used to be?

I have been working with SQL server on and off since SQL Server 6.5, the old advice that still rings in my head was never to do an in-place upgrade. I'm currently upgrading my 2008 R2 DEV and TEST ...
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Executing query is too slow when accessing SQL Server located in an other country

I'am doing an investigation about a slow running query (see below info) when accessing our production SQL Server located in an other country. Now I'm looking for tweaks on how to solve this and make ...
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Use domain username on SQL server reporting services installed in a server which is part of a Workgroup

I have installed SQL Server 2012 on Windows Server 2008. This system is configured to be part of a Workgroup and all the users in our organisation are part of a domain. I am trying to use the ...
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Does Reporting Services lock tables? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Does SSRS lock the table when querying? I'm using SQL Server 2008 R2 and Reporting Services. Do the reports block other queries or are they executed in highly isolated ...
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Date and time parameter In msrs report

Hi I am looking to set up my report so the start date will always be say '14-09-2011 00:00:00' And the end date will always be '14-09-2011 23:59:59' Or in other words Start date will be 00:00 and end ...
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Performance Improvement in SSRS' Reports

There are reports build in SSRS 2008 by some user. I need to improve the performance of the already-build reports. The reports fetches a lot of data and run very very slow. I googled and found ...
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Stored Procedure is not returning complete result

I am using the query as mentioned in the answer accepted in the question located at Stored Procedure doesn't show result in SQL Server Now when I run this SP with the values provided in the ...
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Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Subscriptions

I have an installation of SQL Server 2008 R2. In the subscriptions section I do not see an icon or button to create data driven subscriptions; in the previous installation of SQL Server 2008, I do ...
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Keep original column names in SSRS report designer 3.0?

I have queries returns a lot of (over a hundred) columns which names contain important underscores, >, < and Uppercase/lowercase characters. However, when creating the reports, SSRS designer (3.0) ...
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SSRS set datasource of report model

I created a Report Model which will be consumed by the End users to create ad hoc reports using Report builder tool. The Report Model can be created using the Report Model Project in Business ...
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Execute Queries Against CMS within SSRS Reports?

Is it possible to execute queries against a Central Management Server (CMS) using SSRS? For example, I know of no way to tell a stored procedure that it is inherently supposed to call the CMS, so it ...
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Advantage of using a database snapshot for reporting purposes

What is the performance advantage of using a snapshot of a database for reporting purposes? The way I see it, it would probably downgrade performance since for every write in the original database, ...
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Historical reporting from the database with Reporting Services?

We run a job tracking service as part of the company software. Reports are generated by SQL Server (Standard) Reporting Services usually daily but often as and when needed before meetings etc. As ...
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Sys.WebForms.PageRequestManager Error in SSRS

When i am executing on SSRS report i am getting below error Sys.WebForms.PageRequestManagerServerErrorException: An unknown error occurred while processing the request on the server. The status code ...
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Is there any way to turn off the “loading” message when a page refreshes in Reporting Services?

I have a report that auto-refreshes every 30 seconds. Usually this happens fast enough that you don't even notice. Sometimes, however, the load takes a bit longer. When this happens, the existing ...
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Reporting Service and Application Role

First poster, long time lurker here. What is the best way to activate application role in a report ? I've tried different things and so far the only method that works is to embed the call to the ...