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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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Convert spatial points data to line data for use in Line Layer in SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)

I have a query that returns the fields Order, Lat, Long, SpatialData, <OtherStuff>. SpatialData is a point. I want to create a line layer that draws lines between my points based on the order ...
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Date format in SSRS

I'm wondering if there is a setting in SSRS to indicate the date format. We need to show the dates in dd/mm/yyyy format on the reports and from what I can see in database the value has been stored ...
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SSRS Report joining data sets in BID 2008

How can we join to Data sets in SSRS? For example we have Dataset1 and Dataset2 and the common columns between them are c1 and c2. I know we can use lookup, but wondering if there is a shortcut like ...
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rsExecutionNotFound when directly accessing an SSRS report

I have an SSRS report that can I access from the Web Portal but once I try to access it directly through the URL, I get the following error: Execution 'xxx' cannot be found (rsExecutionNotFound). I ...
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How should I deploy these SSRS reports?

I need to make a decision about deployment and security of some SSRS reports and would like some advice on what the most appropriate method is. We have 40+ sites that have access to information for ...
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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 create an SSRS group without adding the group to the box itself and without using Active Directory?

I want to know if it is possible to create a group "internal" to SSRS without having to add the group to the ReportServer box itself. I do not have permissions to the box to create groups and/or add ...
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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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SSRS email subscription with custom file name on the attachment

I would like to set up an SSRS email subscription that attaches the report in PDF format to the email with a custom file name that changes daily. I was hopeful that I could to this via a data-driven ...
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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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encryption of SSRS subscription emails and attachments

Is it possible to set up an SSRS e-mail subscription, with an attachment, that is encrypted? POST ANSWER-ACCEPT UPDATE: Does the SMTPUseSSL switch in the RSReportServer.config file help me at all? ...
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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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how to pull data source information on data-driven subscriptions

I would like to know more about the data-driven subscriptions on our ReportServer. I am specifically looking for what shared data sources are being used, but the connection string would also suffice. ...
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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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Sum values at a group level rather than detail

I have an invoice report I'm developing for some project billing. The main tablix has several groups, in this order: ProjectGroup TicketGroup NoteGroup Details (actual billing details) The data ...
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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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async_network_io issues with BIDS

This is related to my previous question drastically different runtimes in BIDS and the SSRS Web Portal. I am struggling with refreshing some reports in BIDS because they run forever. I have now ...
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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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drastically different runtimes in BIDS and the SSRS Web Portal

I have a report in a BIDS project that has been deployed to our SSRS Web Portal. On the web, it renders within seconds. In BIDS, it takes upwards of seven minutes. I can see that the query runs ...
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SSRS Merge Data Across 2 Group Values

I have created a report for SSRS 2008 which produces the results below. What I am looking to achieve is for those results in pink, AD, to be under both AM and PM with the text centered i.e. merged ...
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data driven subscriptions in SSRS - pulling a password value from the database

If I create a data driven subscription in SSRS and use the query to return some value for the username and password, how "safe" is this password? Let me explain. I am looking to set up a data source ...
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Send SSRS Report Many Times Based on Sql Query

I have a user who is requesting that a legacy report (email subscription) that runs with multiple categories be modified to run based on which categories exist in the given date range. Thus instead of ...
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Things to consider with a bigger table

I have a table that has around 12 billion rows (row size 32 B) which grows each month by 300 million rows. I have setup partitions for each month and each month has 8 data files (since I currently ...
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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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Connect a linked server to MS Reporting Service?

I've got a MYSQL server setup as a linked server in MS SQL server 2008. Can someone tell me if it is possible to generate reports from this server? How do I connect it to Reporting Services?