Best Practises For Server Sizing For MS Reporting Services
Jul 23, 2005
We are planning to deploy the MS Reporting Services. Unfortunately,
there isn't much guidance on how to effectively size a server.
Here are my questions:
1) In an environment with 1 reporting server (hosting the reporting
data layer, application, and management layer) connecting to 1 or more
SQL servers (over 2 trunked 1Gbps switches connections), what is the
constraining resource when running large reports against a database of
say 4GB in size? CPU, RAM, DISK, or Network speed on the Reporting
Server? Or the Data hosting SQL server? Or does it depend on code?
2) If I have a Duel Core CPU, do I buy 1 CPU license. MS had responded
to the HyperThreading as 2 virtual CPUs with the statement that you buy
CPU licenses based on socket count effectively. This would imply that
if I buy a 4 Duel Core AMD Opteron Proliant 585 (8 CPU cores in 4
packages / sockets), I can run MS Reporting Services Standard Edition.
Is that true?
I am converting an old Crystal Reports environment to 2005 Reporting Services. I've seen the basic memory requirements for the SSRS programs themselves, but I was wondering if there are any other guides available that will help me size the H/W based on anticipated users and reports.
I have a report that is a little wide, and when I export it to an Excel file it spans about 2 pages. I have it set to an 8.5 height and 11 width for printing in landscape on normal-sized paper. But is there a way to make sure that the report exports with the printing page break covering the entire width so that the report prints only one page across? The users don't want to resize in Excel before printing.
Can anyone please provide me with some Best Practises for setting up Maintenance plans? IE what order should things be done in? What should be done daily, weekly, monthly, yearly... I am attempting to setup a new server and I am now 100% sure I have the maintenance plan setup correctly... expecially when I attempted to run it last night it and ran for over 8 hours and still didn't do the backup's yet. I had to reboot the server this morning to make it stop using 100% of the CPU. So please any help would be wonderful.
if there is any way to accurately size a single server using SSIS. The server will be a virtual machine. The data being loaded will be approximately 200 MB per load with loading to a 150 GB database on a separate server.
We are considering migrating our Oracle database over to SQLserver 7.0. I'd like to do some sizing estimates, but I have not been able find any methods for sizing SQL server 7.0 databases. There didn't seem to be any calculation guidlines or formulas in the manual or the online documentation. The only formulas I have found on the WEB are for version 6.5. Does anyone have (or know where I can find)formulas that are valid for sizing SQL server 7.0 databases?
Note: an archived message on this site referred to an attachment containing sizing formulas, but the attachment was not accesible.
We are designing a system using .NET/ASP.NET and SQL Server (2000 Standard as a customer requirement). The system will be hosted into 2 dedicated servers (an web/application and a db server) and we need to estimate the hardware requirements needed.
Could anyone help me on sizing this? Is there any literature on how to do this? I found some sizing web sites but I'd like to double check them. I already have some estimation on data storage size/growth based on some information I've got from the customer.
Hello I am sizing a database server for Business Objects Enterprise XI R2. In addition to housing this database we plan on consolodating a few other databases to this server. I am wondering what type of array I should be considering for these databases.
We are experiencing some contention of resources between our RDBMS and our OLAP environment; both SQL2005; so we are going to put the OLAP side of life onto another seperate box. Therefore I need to work out what sort of requirements we are going to need; and this is where i have no idea.
I have had a look at the HP sizers, however this is looking primarily at normal RDBMS setups rather than specifically for OLAP. Is there any specifics that I need to consider/nail down before working this out?
To give you an idea: We currently have 210 million rows in our main fact table, and each row is averaging about 330 bytes The size of our current OLAP database is only 4GB It appears as though we are currently getting anywhere between 6 and 20-30 concurrent users
Considering the above; I would have thought a dual core cpu setup (maybe x2) with 8-10GB of ram would have been the ticket? Now I have done a server sizing exercise for a normal SQL2005 installation; considering temp db on seperate spindles to the log and database tables etc; but what sort of considerations do I need to do for a server running SSAS?
Thanks in advance for any assistance anyone can offer on this front
HiI joined a project where 100,000 rows were added everyday. Now due toadditional customers the expectation is 2 million reocrds/day ie 10 GB worthof textfiles. We have to estimate the hard disk, memory, # of CPUs etc.Wewill have one yearworth of data in the db. Rest will be in tapes etc.We will be using WIN2000, SQL Server2000.- Any comparable server sizing willbe appreciated.1. Tohandle every day load, I thought that we will have a table for each day(pre created in the database )and have a view with union all selectingfromall these 365 tables. (This is the only way to partition in MSSQL Serverright?).2. The requirement is to populate datawarehouse tables with all the data.However there will be only inserts mostly but there can be updates too whichhappenned in the past 12 days.Hence we have to use the data from the last12 days and massage it etc and populate into datawarehouse tables.How can I do this so that I will have the datawarehouse tables with n-12days of data and I will alwys add the last 12 days data to it.Do you have any suggestions?Ragu
I am trying to migrate my reports from SQL server 2000 reporting services 32bit to 2005 64bit. I am following the migration steps that MS specified. Restored my Reportserver and ReportserverTempDB databases Then I was using the configure Report services to upgrade these databases but I always end up getting the follwoing exception when I run the upgrade on the "Database Setup" configuration for 'ReportServerTempDB' database System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: Could not locate entry in sysdatabases for database 'ReportServerTempDBTempDB'. No entry found with that name. Make sure that the name is entered correctly. at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection.OnError(SqlException exception, Boolean breakConnection) at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnection.OnError(SqlException exception, Boolean breakConnection) at System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.ThrowExceptionAndWarning(TdsParserStateObject stateObj) at System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.Run(RunBehavior runBehavior, SqlCommand cmdHandler, SqlDataReader dataStream, BulkCopySimpleResultSet bulkCopyHandler, TdsParserStateObject stateObj) at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.RunExecuteNonQueryTds(String methodName, Boolean async) at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.InternalExecuteNonQuery(DbAsyncResult result, String methodName, Boolean sendToPipe) at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.ExecuteNonQuery() at Microsoft.ReportingServices.Common.DBUtils.ApplyScript(String connectionString, String script) at ReportServicesConfigUI.SqlClientTools.SqlTools.ApplyScript(String connectionString, String script)
It's driving me crazy, why is it looking for 'ReportServerTempDBTempDB' in the catalog instead of 'ReportServerTempDB'? Is it possible to migrate from 32bit to 64bit?
I started my Reporting Server and if I use the Internet Explorer as a Administrator everything works fine.But if I don't open it as an admin it calls "rsAccess Denied The user [...] does not have the permission...".Problem is that I want to run it in an SAP Program with an HTML Viewer. how I can get those Permissions ?By the way somehow I'm not able to create or change roles in the Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio.
Hi allI am having a SQL Server database of arround 110GB and 250 Users. Whatis best suited hardware requirements for handling of such a database. Iam having following requirements from the server:1. Feeding purpose : On which continously feeding is done by average200 users.2. Reporting purpose : on which average hundred of repords are runningat a time.Right now i am having two servers for both of the above said purposeswith the following configuration.Feeding ServerHPSERVER 370G43.2 Xeon Single processor3GB RAM1 SCSI 73GB 15000 RPM(OS & Transaction Log), 4 SCSI * 73GB with RAID 0(Data Files) and 2 IDE * 300GB (Backups)Reporting ServerBoard SE7520BD2V2 x XEON 3.2 GHz CPU 800 FSB with 2MB Cache4GB RAM3 SCSI * 73GB with RAID 0 (Data Files and Transaction Log), 2 SATA *300GB (Backups) , 1 80GB IDE(OS)I want to fullfill both of my requirements from a single . I want toknow what upgrades or changes I need to do in the configurationaccording to the load and performence on existing servers. Here is thetable of performence counters along with their values to show the loadand performence for both of the servers.ReportServer ValueFeedingServer ValueCounter Instance Avg. Min. Max. Avg.Min. Max.Pages/sec 0.081 0 8.001 0.020 1.993Avg. Disc Queue length _Total 18.658 13.592 51.89634.421 0 175.783% Processor Time _Total 36.841 5.469 64.45379.837 54.688 100Buffer Cache hit ratio 97.702 93.595 99.46397.41 77.261 99.989Checkpoint pages/sec 0 0 00 0 0Lazy writes/sec 1.243 0 30.003 14.2630 97.194Page life expectancy 17 4 8110 6 14Avg. DiskBytes/transfer _Total 37934.133 7903.004128427.747 53806.538 8025.801 141750.562Avg. DiskBytes/Read _Total 16737.419 8192 42895.86254228.822 8170.499 143489.965Avg. Disk Bytes/Write _Total 12298.494 0 6553611708.014 0 92842.667% Disk Time _Total 77.555 49.976 261.966 760.35612.534 4890.383Users Connections 17 17 18195 185 212Batch Requests/sec 0.859 0 2373.215 0 205.009Transactions/sec _Total 1.768 0 18.00159.314 3 241.814Page splits/sec 0 0 0 1.030 5.007Please suggest what should be the configuration for my new server.Should I consider buying an Dual Itanium Processor based system with 16Gigs of Ram and 8 Hard Disks in Raid 0. Or Should I consider buying aQuad Xeon Dual Core Processor based system. Or may be my existing HPserver can be upgraded to dual processor and 8 Gigs of Ram and 2-3 morehard disks? Pls recommend what should be the factors that sould beconsidered, guiding priciples and my approact to reach a decision.With Best RegardsParveen Beniwal
We are setting up a new Reporting Services 2005 enterprise reporting tier that will support multiple developers, applications, and end users. We will have mirrored environments including development, test, and production each with their own database cluster, and reporting server.
We have multiple report developers who share a single Visual Studio solution which is saved in SourceSafe and is setup to have separate report projects for each business unit in the orgainzation. Each report project is mapped to a specific deployment folder matching the business unit. Using the Visual Studio Configuration Manager, we can simply flip to the envirnoment we want to deploy to and the reports are published to the correct environment and folder structure.
My problem lies with the common data sources. We are using a single master Common Data Sources folder to hold all of the data sources. The trick is that each and every reporting folder seems to have to have it's own copy of the data source in visual studio. There does not seem to be an easy way to change the data sources for the reports when you publish to various environment, i.e. development, test, production etc.
Ideally, we would have a single project for the common data sources that all reporting projects and associated folders would map to, and we would have a way to associate the appropriate data source for each environment when we deploy.
I'm looling for best practices on how to setup data sources for development and deployment in an enterprise environment that uses Visual Studio to develop and publish reports. We have 3 environments, and 6 data sources per environment and about 20 reporting folder / project in Visual Studio. That's 360 changes that have to be manged when deploying reports. Is there a best practices way to do this?
There has got to be a better way? Can anyone give me some insite into how to set this up?
I've been fixing some issues lately where weekly maintenance has been causing logs to grow and filling disks.
Is there any rule of thumb for allocating log space for doing reorgs and rebuilds in a worst case scenario? I'm thinking 3x the largest database size?
I've been watching them run on databases in the range of 50GB where the logs are growing well over that for rebuilds or even reorgs. Once you have a few databases like this on a server, you can suddenly eat through a lot of disk space just for holding logs during maintenance.
I'm attempting to obtain a cost effective solution for my existing customers to develop reports on their SQL 2000 Server installations using their Reporting Services 2000. With products like Visual Basic.NET 2003 becoming almost impossible to obtain, I have at least one customer who is running into a dead end.
One option possibly is the SQL Express with Advanced Services download, which has Reporting Services. My questions are as follows:
Can the report designer component of SQL Express Reporting Services be configured to connect to an external database (which would happen to be a SQL 2000 database) to establish its datasets? Does the resultant designed report end up in an RDL file? If the customer published this report via the Reporting Services 2000 Report Manager, would the report be able to run?
Sorry for asking a question like this that I could probably answer on my own, but my customer needed this answer yesterday. I have scoured the web and microsoft sites - and posted a question on the official SQL Reporting Services cateogy ... in an attempt to answer the basic question of how to design reports for Reporting Services 2000 in the absence of Visual Basic.NET 2003 (or other .NET 2003 tools) with no success.
I am trying to learn Reporting Services using the title "MS SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services Step by Step" by Stacia Misner and Hitachi Consulting, published in 2006. I am experiencing problems with some of the exercises. I got as far as Chapter 4 when I followed directions to create a SQL statement to define a query string for a dataset. Pg 80:
select * from vProductProfitability
where year = 2003 and
MonthNumberOfYear = 1
The view vProductProfitability does not exist in the tutorial database that came with the book, rs2005sbsDW. The result of this query is the basis for the entire chapter on developing basic reports and I'm being denied a learning opportunity because the view does not exist. In short, I'm stuck.
I have tried to find somewhere at Microsoft to place this question and get some answers so I can continue thru the tutorial. To no avail. Does anyone have any suggestions?
BTW, the solution that came in the CD is also wrong because the query noted above is also in the solution.
I work in a big project and we will begin in using reporting services as the base technique for reports and I will be responsible for this part. but I have a problem I will discuss in the following:
Currently: We use currently devexpress reports and we have 2 languages(Arabic and English). the data in tables saved in two ways (Arabic and English). when the end user change the language of the web site the report data language changed when run it.
Example:
we have table with (ID, NAME_AR, NAME_EN, JobTitle_AR, JobTitle_EN). designed report will display(ID, NAME_EN, JobTitle_EN) . but the end user change the language of the system the report will
How do you create a dynamic column in reporting services? On the report I created I've a field call "Address 2', this field doesn't display data all the time. I wan this field to only display when there is data present.
I have to find out how to use the Reporting services in SQL Server 2000. Can any one expert in this field give some sort of direction. Any kind of resource on SQL server reporting will help.
I managed to install Reporting services ok on a laptop running XP Pro. However I have run into all sorts of problems trying to install it on a Laptop running Vista Business with II7.0
When I tried browsing the reports folder (by using the url: localhost/reports), it could not resolve it.
I got a bt further by using the url: 127.0.0.1/reports. However having part displayed the page it gave me the following error: The underlying connection was closed. An unexpected error occurred on a send.
I googled this error and was told to check the Reporting Configuration tool.
When I did this I got the following error
There was an error while refreshing the reporting services configuration manager. The exception details are: A connection to the computer cannot be established
Details: Access denied
However I can connect to SQL Server via Management Studio
hi, I am new to sql server reporting services,in my case i am passing parameters from frontend(Asp.net). when i pass more than 30 parameters my report is showing parameters which is not a desired one even though i am making showparameterPrompts property to false.
can any one tell me how to pass more no of parameters to the Report.
I've come across what appears to be a bug in SSRS. If after reading this post you feel otherwise, please reply to this thread...
I am trying to use SSRS to print to a Dymo LabelWriter 400 printer. This is a specialized label printer that prints one label to a page. The label paper I am using 2-1/2 inches by 1-1/2 inches. The Dymo printer driver prints portait layout as being the 2-1/2 inches width and 1-1/2 inches height. I assume that is because the paper rolls through the printer that way and labels normally are printed with more width than height.
Other software programs I use to print to this printer handles it properly (Microsoft Word, Microsoft Office Document Imaging, Dymo Label software). However, SSRS seems to assume that portrait layout must mean paper height > width, as there is no explicity setting in SSRS to for page layout. The result is that no matter how I layout my SSRS report (e.g., switch width-height values, use tb-rl to rotate text), SSRS makes the final decision on whether it is portrait or lanscape. And in this case of the Dymo printer, it always sets it to the opposite of what it should be. Changing the printer settings (whether default or whether in print dialog) does not correct it.
Although assuming that portrait layout must mean paper height > width may seem to make logical sense, not every printer works that way; and other software programs (including Microsoft Office) do not make that assumption. It seems that SSRS and/or RDL spec should allow one to explicitly set portrait/landscape setting and not care about width-height ratio. It should be left to the printer and printer driver to decide.
Have other people come across this issue, either with Dymo printer or in other context? Were they able to find a workaround?
I have a relatively simple question about SQL Server Reporting Services.
I want to know if SQL Server "Reporting Services" are included as part of SQL Server in all flavors or editions? Do you ever have to buy Reporting Services separate or is it ever not included with SQL Server?
SQL Server Reporting Services 2005 Service would not Start on windows server 2003. Working great till yesterday and no changes were made to config file.
Here is the error in Event log
Event Type: Error Event Source: SQL Server Report Service Event Category: None Event ID: 0 Date: 12/13/2007 Time: 8:25:59 AM User: N/A Computer: XXXXXXXXXXX Description: Service cannot be started. Microsoft.ReportingServices.Diagnostics.Utilities.ServerConfigurationErrorException: The report server has encountered a configuration error. See the report server log files for more information. at Microsoft.ReportingServices.Library.ServiceAppDomainController.Start(Boolean firstTime) at Microsoft.ReportingServices.NTService.ReportService.OnStart(String[] args) at System.ServiceProcess.ServiceBase.ServiceQueuedMainCallback(Object state) For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Here is i found in log files ReportingServicesService!resourceutilities!4!12/13/2007-08:25:59:: i INFO: Running on 0 physical processors, 1 logical processors ReportingServicesService!servicecontroller!4!12/13/2007-08:25:59:: e ERROR: Exception caught loading and setting code permissions policy level: System.Security.XmlSyntaxException: Invalid syntax on line 158. at System.Security.Util.Parser.GetRequiredSizes(TokenizerStream stream, Int32& index) at System.Security.Util.Parser.ParseContents() at System.Security.Util.Parser..ctor(Tokenizer t) at System.Security.SecurityManager.LoadPolicyLevelFromStringHelper(String str, String path, PolicyLevelType type) at System.Security.SecurityManager.LoadPolicyLevelFromString(String str, PolicyLevelType type) at Microsoft.ReportingServices.Library.ServiceController.SetAppDomainPolicy() ReportingServicesService!servicecontroller!4!12/13/2007-08:25:59:: e ERROR: Error Starting Service: System.Security.XmlSyntaxException: Invalid syntax on line 158. at System.Security.Util.Parser.GetRequiredSizes(TokenizerStream stream, Int32& index) at System.Security.Util.Parser.ParseContents() at System.Security.Util.Parser..ctor(Tokenizer t) at System.Security.SecurityManager.LoadPolicyLevelFromStringHelper(String str, String path, PolicyLevelType type) at System.Security.SecurityManager.LoadPolicyLevelFromString(String str, PolicyLevelType type) at Microsoft.ReportingServices.Library.ServiceController.SetAppDomainPolicy() at Microsoft.ReportingServices.Library.ServiceController.StartService(Boolean firstStart)
