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Where and how to store my weird datamart

I could really use some help here. Here's my situation. I'm building a datamart in SQL Server 2005, which will furnish a single report (for now). We have 26 clients (medical organizations) that ...
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SSRS 2008 R2 setup issue

I have installed SSRS 2008 R2 on my desktop and server. When I hit the reports link on my desktop http://mypc/Reports_mypc/Pages/Folder.aspx all I get to see is this I cant create a new folder ...
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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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SSRS Deployment

I have developed and deploy my reports on report server in LAN. but I want to deploy my reports on report server which is not in LAN. means I need a setup or package which can run at client end ...
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SSRS email subscription fails intermittently with “The e-mail address of one or more recipients is not valid”

I have an SSRS server sending mail via smtp to a list of users. These are all internal users with email addresses of the form user.name@example.com An email subscription run at 18:05 used to work, ...
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SSRS Timeline Chart for each day / minute

I'm asked to make a Timeline Bar Chart with SSRS 2012. There should be 1 chart per day/employee, and this chart should have a x-axis of 1440 minutes (or 24 hours). The bar should have 2 different ...
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Can I programmatically generate reports that are emailed as Excel docs from SSRS?

I've searched already and don't see (or can't decipher) a solution for my issue. I have SSRS emailing a report for 1 district (with 12 retail stores). However, each Region has over 8 Districts, and I ...
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SSRS appears to be ignoring Permissions set using Report Manager

I have setup SSRS on SQL Server 2008 in native mode. As an administrator I can login to report manager, upload reports and run them, and also use the Web Service URL to generate reports. I have also ...
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SQL Server Reporting Services Slow TotalTimeDataRetrieval Fast ExecuteReaderTime

I wrote a report that is executed by a few hundred users each day and the underlying stored procedure for the data set only takes milliseconds to execute. According to the ...
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An unknown error occurred while processing the request on the server [closed]

I have an asp.net 4.0 application with a button that opens a SSRS report. This works fine on my development machine and I can open the report directly with report manager but when I try to access the ...
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Real Time SQL Server Analysis Services Cube Processing Report

I would like to know if there is a way to generate a report to determine which SQL Server Analysis Services cubes are processing using SQL Server Reporting Services? I would like to be able to run ...
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Options for setting NOLOCK hint in dataset queries

Some context: At first we wrote reports just "straight up", without any locking hints in the queries. With the larger reports this would sometimes cause locking problems. At first we remedied this by ...
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Updating data from a report: any potential pitfalls?

Question: In general, are there any pitfalls with updating data from a SSRS report?* Context: More specific, I'm talking about this context: SSRS 2008 (with the option to upgrade, if needed). ...
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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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How to create a summary report that contains other reports?

I have 4 reports that I run for 8 different environments. Each report creates a graph from some usage tables. It's very simple SQL that creates a very simple graph. The guy who used to do these ...
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uninstalling SSRS and SSIS from clustered SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1

Due to the security recommendation, i will need to uninstall the unused SSRS and SSIS component from a production cluster SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1, so what is the caveats and what do I require to do to ...
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How to set the language of a doc to a DB field

Is there a way to set the language of a document body to a value fetch from the DB in SSRS? I tried with a simple expression and I got this error. I wonder what the best workaround is
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can I add a custom SSRS e-mail subscription that forces the “TO” address

I would like to know if it is possible to add a custom delivery extension(?) in SSRS that will enable me to force a value into the "TO" address for particular subscriptions? Big picture: I am ...
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why do SSRS reports run longer for a particular user

We have been receiving complaints from a particular SSRS user that her reports run slow. I investigated in the ExecutionLog table in the ReportServer database and I observed something strange. ...
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can I convert an integer to base-2 without a function

Here's a bit of a challenge. I am working with the table ReportServer.Schedule and there is a column called DaysOfWeek. I may not be using the proper terminology here, but this is an integer from ...
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alert when any job in a job category fails

Is it possible to set up an alert in SQL Server 2008 that will send an e-mail anytime a job in a specific category fails? I am wondering because I would like to set up an e-mail anytime an SSRS ...
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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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Allow a user to create folders and linked reports, but not “real” reports

I have a need to allow certain users the ability to create folders and linked reports within specified folders, but I don't want them to be able to put actual reports in those folders. Is there a ...
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Sort a non-grouped (SUM) column in descending order

I have a SSRS Report that contains 3 columns: Asset, Project Type and Total Hours. Report is grouped by first level grouping on asset and second level on Project Type. For example, clicking on Asset ...
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Can't connect to Analysis Services or Reporting Services on localhost

I'm able to connect to my SQL Server 2008R2 localhost Database Engine and Integration Services. However, when I try to connect to Analysis Services, it fails with the message: "A connection attempt ...
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Prevent Data Sources from being deployed outside designated folder

Before I just go ahead and put a really awful check constraint on the Catalog table, I wanted to solicit some better ideas first. I want to ensure that all shared data sources on our report server ...
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Chart creation in BIDS 2008

Due to low reputation point i am not able to include the picture. I am trying to make u guys understand what i am asking for: I had created a report. And that Report contains these fields and ...
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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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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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How to deploy SSRS reports build through Report Builder?

I would be building or correcting the already build SSRS reports through report builder. Once the change is done in Development side, then how to publish the reports on test server/UAT or on ...
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How can I tell which data sources are being used in SSRS?

We have a bunch of SSRS (2008) reports deployed to our web portal. We have edited some of the reports to use a shared data source different than the one with which it was originally deployed. I am ...
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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 ...
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Report model data source

Does anybody know how i could use a linked server as a data source for a report model in SQL server 2008 r2? or how i could make this linked server a data source on a report model? Please help. Thank ...
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Is it safe to change the Recovery Model of SSRS database ReportServer to SIMPLE?

I'm changing the recovery model of ReportServer database from FULL to SIMPLE. Is there any reason why i would not want to do this? Besides the obvious answer of losing point-in-time recovery? (i am ...