I am relatively new to SQL Reporting Services and have a couple basic questions (I think they are basic).
First, lets say that I have the following fields in the body of my report: Sales, Cost, Profit, and Percent Profit. Percent Profit is a calculated field of profit/sales.
Then, I have a grouping by customer, with a footer with the sum of sales, sum of cost, sum of profit. And I also want percent profit, but I do not want a sum or average of percent profit. Instead I want percent profit calculated as sum of profit/sum of sales. I cannot seem to get this to work with a calculated field. I must have the syntax wrong (as I was just taking sum(fields!profit.value)/sum(fields!sales.value)*100.
Also, I understand the format of #,# can be used to print a blank instead of zero. But this format also suppresses any decimals. So if I have a field that needs two decimals when there is a value, but need it to be blank when 0.00 is returned, what is the appropriate format?
Any help that can be provided would be much appreciated. As books are great, but sometimes do not explain everything. Thanks!
-Christina
My SQL 7.0 database is set to show UK format date ranges. But when opening a table and adding criteria to the grid pane I having to put the US format date to retrive correct results...
Is this correct. I am wanting to be aboe to enter UK format in the criteria
I am creating a VB application that will run on a NT machine with Regional Settings as UK English and dd/mm/yyyy settings. When I try to input these values into SQL 7.0 ( default database setting mdy and us_english with Regional Settings as UK dd/mm/yyyy) , I get the error -" The conversion of a char data type to a datetime data type resulted in an out-of-range datetime value " . Can I change my databse to always be dmy format. It seems to be active for a connection , can it be configured somewhere .
I read this and got confused...I use PHP and got this:$sql = "delete from blabla where startdate< =to_date('2000.05.05','YYYY-MM-DD')";$result=odbc_exec($conn, $sql);Result: Warning: odbc_exec() [function.odbc-exec]: SQL error:[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]'to_date' is not arecognized function name.to_date should work?At the other end i'd like to read out startdate as a date var or formatit as I need.... (dd.mm.yyyy). Convert makes me confused... helpplease?S
Is it true that binary and varbinary has a max-kapacity at 8000 bytes? Imjyst unsure how to read the dokumentation and want to be completely sure.And image is only one to use for data aobve that size?Thx in regards for clearing things out for meReagardsAnders
I have two beginner questions: 1. How should I set up report layout/printing format so it would fit to the page? 2. Is there a way to change the color of every other row in the table? Can I highlight the rows based on some kind of a condition? Thank you.
I want to put together a database to record times achieved by swimmers in competition. The database itself is simple but I don't know what format to use to store the time achieved. Times can vary, for example 35.27 (SS.00), 1.12.63 (MM.SS.00). Oh, and by the way I want to rank the output but haven't even begun to think about that yet!
My ISP says that the file format for SQE .mdf files is different than a regular sql2005 .mdf file. So, what I am told to do is backup my SQE file, and send it to them to restore into a SQL2005 format.
Does that make sense? Or should I simply be able to upload a .mdf file to their SQL2005 server without backing it up for them to restore?
I have a problem with DateTime...In my local sql server I use "mm.dd.yyyy" format and i work fine with the database. But that crashed in my clients sql server. Their sql server wants "dd.mm.yyyy" format. Ofcourse I can use parameterized queries and solve the problem but I write the program on WinCE5.0 and I use the RDA method to access the SQL Server.In RDA,I have no chance to use parameterized queries as I know.
How can I solve the problem and what causes this problem? A setting in sql server or something else?What causes this difference..?
I want to put together a database to record times achieved by swimmers in competition. The database itself is simple but I don't know what format to use to store the time achieved. Times can vary, for example 35.27 (SS.00), 1.12.63 (MM.SS.00). Oh, and by the way I want to rank the output but haven't even begun to think about that yet!
Hey all, I`m trying to BCP in some data from a csv file. It has dates formatted like d/mm/yy and when run BCP it errors. Of course...SQL language is set to English(United States) so it wants it in mm/dd/yy. But from what I`ve read in the archive, from Sharon at least, is that only in BCP will it use the NT date setting which for me is English(Australian) or d/mm/yy. So I`m thinking, `that`s ok` my data`s dates like d/mm/yy and nt dates like d/mm/yy it`ll bcp in fine - but no.
What can I do? I cant change my sql setting and I cant change the way I dump my dates to the csv! Suggestions......
Hi. I have a DB in which we store dates in yyyy/mm/dd. However when wewant to display this date via a web frontend, it needs to be indd/mm/yyyy. I've declared a function (shown below) which convertsbetween these date formats and returns a varchar(20). This works finehowever now I need to have the ability to sort on this date field inthe frontend. This requires my function to return a datetime in therequired format. Can this be done?DECLARE @InputDate nvarchar(20)DECLARE @OutputDate nvarchar(20)DECLARE @Day nvarchar(2)DECLARE @Month nvarchar(2)DECLARE @Year nvarchar(4)DECLARE @Time nvarchar(12)SET @InputDate = '2005/03/01 14:30:00'SET @Day = cast(datepart(day,@InputDate) as nvarchar(2))SET @Month = cast(datepart(month,@InputDate) as nvarchar(2))SET @Year = cast(datepart(year,@InputDate) as nvarchar(4))SET @Time = substring(cast(@InputDate as nvarchar(23)),12,12)SET @OutputDate = replicate('0',2-len(@Day)) + @Day + '/' +replicate('0',2-len(@Month)) + @Month + '/' +@Year + ' ' + @TimeSELECT @OutputDate AS OutputDateThxVilen
HiI work ith sql server 2000 and i need know the diferentof joins in format not ansi ( with * ) and joins in formatansi ( with 'outher join on' ).Two format work equal ???What is de correct format ???Thank you.R.
Hi.I had a VB program that was using an SQL Server 6.5 DB. Date formatwas dd/mm/yyyy. Now the DB was changed to an SQL Server 7 and the dateformat is yyyy/mm/dd.How can I do for changing date formats in the new DB to the oldformat?I´m searching for a database level solution, not server level.thanks
I was wondering what everyone felt about the fomats in characterfields where the front end application accepts anything.I wouldn't want a customer table where the customer name was lowercase on one, upper on another and who knows on the third.If character fields are not consistent, then formatting will have tohappen every time someone access the data for reporting - as anexample ...Thanks,Craig
I have a SQL date problem that I just cant get to the bottom of. A SSIS package runs that inserts dates into a SQL table from strings in the format dd/mm/yyyy This package is run from within a SQL job. Unfortunately the dates are being interpreted as mm/dd/yyyy. I have checked every possible date setting that I can, but nothing seems to work (SQL Agent account lang is set to British English, collations, Locale ID setting in the SSIS package, Lang of account that runs the SSIS service).
When the package is run in BIDS it inserts the dates correctly, just not from a SQL job. I have tried inserting SET DATEFORMAT dmy in an Execute SQL Task in the SSIS package but that does not work either.
The baffling thing is that it works on one server but not another. Both servers have the same collation, regional settings and use the same SQL Agent account.
Also when SELECT @@Language is used is this determined by the lang setting against the user ?
Is there a way to send a report with 2 or more formats? Let's say a customer wants a report in both PDF and Excel format in the same email. Is this possible?
I'm currently using SQL Server 2000 and SSRS 2000 with the latest Service Packs.
I need to disable Excel Exports for a single report.
I've found a way to disable Exporting Formats but it disables for ALL REPORTS on the server. This involves changing the rsreportserver.config file. http://blogs.digineer.com/blogs/jasons/archive/2006/05/10/93.aspx
Another site mentions a way to disable Exporting Formats for a single Report. http://mikemason.ca/2007/04/30/
Code Snippetusing System.Reflection; using Microsoft.Reporting.WebForms; using Microsoft.SqlServer.ReportingServices2005.Execution;
namespace MyProject { public class ServerReportDecorator { private readonly ServerReport serverReport;
public ServerReportDecorator(ReportViewer reportViewer) { this.serverReport = reportViewer.ServerReport; }
public ServerReportDecorator(ServerReport serverReport) { this.serverReport = serverReport; }
I'm looking for further clarification of this process. 1. Where I can download the Microsoft.SqlServer.ReportingServices2000 dll? 2. Does anyone have a project example of the process? How/When to actually use the code quoted?
Hello. I am using Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio (SQL Server 2005). When I select a date column from a table, the date is displayed in "mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss" format. Is there a way i can change this date format so that it shows "dd/mm/yyyy hh:mm:ss" permanently? Thanks.
I am getting the result in the format shown below but i want the Min Salary and Max Salary to be just 32000 and 40000 respectively. And can change my JobDate to normal 26/09/05 format. I know that convert(char(12), column name , 103) has to be used but its not working out for my sql code.Thanks in Advance @list nvarchar(200), @minsal money, @lbtime int, @Sortby int, @a intSELECT J.* FROM JobDetails AS J JOIN ( SELECT DISTINCT J1.JobID FROM JobDetails AS J1 inner join dbo.Split1(@list, ' ') AS S ON J1.JobPosition LIKE '%' + S.Data + '%' AND (@lbtime = '0' OR MinSalary <= @sal AND @sal<= Maxsalary) AND (@a IS NULL OR (J1.JobDate BETWEEN DATEADD(ww,-@a-1,getdate()) AND GETDATE() ) ) ) J1 ON J1.JobID = J.JobID ORDER BY CASE WHEN @SortOptions2=1 then JobPosition End,CASE WHEN @SortOptions2=3 then MinSalary END,CASE WHEN @SortOptions2=4 then JobDate END DESCJobID JobPostion Min Salary Max Salary JobDate6 SAP HR Manager 32000.0000 40000.0000 2005-09-26 00:00:00.000
We have files from an event log in a DEC Alpha server and we would like to create a database program to import these files and then be able to read and query the info in them.
These files contain information such as error codes about the machine that the Alpha controls. They also contain time stamps. I am told that these files are hexidecimal.
Someone mentioned in passing that if we use MSaccess as the database, we would first have to write a program to convert these files to a format that Access can understand. But, we were told that SQL7 has Add-ins that comes on the CD that can convert these files to a format that SQL7 can then understand.
Does anyone know if this is true..and how difficult is file conversion to accomplish?
If anyone thinks that they might be able to help us, I can sent them a small sample of the hex files Thank you in advance
After the date you can see that there is two digits number either 00 or 01. The rows also have a different lengthts.
When ever that columns contains 00 the line should be inserted to a special text file, if the columns contains 01 it should to another file.
How can I solve this in a good way?
One of the problems I have is that when I try to import the rows the flat file connections indicates(erros message) that I have partial row in the file which is true since the the rows with the columns content 01 have more fields then the other.
l have a customer text file.l have imported the file into an sql table. Now l want to validate the data starting with the customer_no and the format being xxl-0001 etc ,phone_no i.e 011 as the code and the number as 9028589 etc , say balance
l want to have ensure that the format of customer_no is XXL- then the number Check the phone number that it has the right number of characters and that it is an interger.
How ould l do this? Should l use a procedure to do this or triggers? How would the code look ? Is there a topic on data validation that can give me pointers? Please assist
I'm using 2 DB servers, with MS SQL Server 2000 on each of them, one for development and one for production.
When I want to query some information, filtered on a date in the WHERE clause, I have to use DATE = '<MM/DD/YYYY>' on the development machine, and DATE = '<DD/MM/YYYY>' on the production one, to get the result I want, and I can't figure out why (I'm just a lambda user). I would like to configure the servers so that both use the <DD/MM/YYYY> format.
insert into example values('fd') insert into example values('fd') insert into example values('fd1') insert into example values('fd23') insert into example values('fda23') insert into example values('fd23g')
I am researching a way to render data in a plain text file, with no formatting.
I plan on building out the result set to exactly what I am wanting and just need it to render itself without any formatting logic being taken into consideration.
The end result is to generate a QIF file from a random data set. QIF is just a formatted text file.
Am having problems setting a normal SSN xxx-xx-xxx format for a report textbox using the Textbox Properties / Format tab. The data is stored as text, and am using the "Format Code .... " option. When I choose "Custom" option, and attempt any formatting string containing the "-", the SSN is displayed without the "-". Nothing I have tried works.
What is the correct context string for this format?
Hi there I have an application running in two development environments, one using a sql server 2005 database and the other using a 2000 database. The application works on the 2000 database but when i try to insert values into the 2005 database the date format is incorrect (mm/dd/yyyy). I've checked the regional data settings on both machines and they are identical. The application (which i inherited) uses inline sql and when i dump the values before the sql command is run i get dd/mm/yyyy for the app running 2005 and mm/dd/yyyy for the app on 2000. I'm trying to determine if this is an issue with the machine itself and the .net framework installed or infact the two different versions on sql server. thanks
