I'm creating a report that is designed to be exported to Excel so that the end user can manipulate the data. There are two main columns that I'm concerned with - TimeTaken and OTTimeTaken (for overtime).
Our application does not track OTTimeTaken so it's default will just be 0, but I need the excel file to have a formula that automatically adds the TimeTaken to the OTTimeTaken in a third cell for the total number of hours as that value will be added by the A/R department for invoicing.
I've created a sql statement that retrieves number data from various table joins. The number data is then grouped according to various categories. What I need to do is to calculate the average of all the number data in a particular group. How do i go about this? Once calculated, the average needs to be displayed under the data.
For example, the report will list say five numbers (some sets may have more, it depends on how much data is returned based on the query), then under the five numbers, the average is given
2 4 3 6 0
Average: 5
What technique is best? Do I have to calculate the numbers in sql or do I need to configure the report to calculate the average? If so, how? Can someone show me step by step how to do averages for a set of data in the reporting services?
I am completely new to doing reports, I'm just a hobbyist, and I've only used databases to retrieve basic data, but not make manipulations for reports.
I'm experiencing a problem in SSRS 2005 with exporting a report to Excel (from the web interface) where it messes up the cells that are referenced in some formulas. This issue seems to be quite rare as it has only happened a few times in several months, but it is a critical issue for me as the report is dealing with financial data and there is no room for mistake.
Basically the report contains a table of financial data, where one column in particular is derived from 3 other columns in the report at run-time. The derived column uses an expression such as:
This is just in a simple table with no grouping, where there is a header row, one data row, and a footer row.
99% of the time the report runs fine and is accurate. However on the rare occassion when the bug raises its head... Let's say the table in report has 15 columns and 100 rows for a given month. If the bug occurs, it seems to affect 2 rows. When viewing the exported file in Excel, the formula in the derived column in the first buggy row will (incorrectly) try to reference the cells in the Header Row - which is strange because the expression is only referencing other fields in the same row of data, nothing to do with headers or footers - and therefore prints "#VALUE" in the cell because the formula is trying to operate on non-numeric data! And then further down the report, the derived column in the next buggy row will be trying to reference the values in a row that is 4 rows above, instead of the values in it's own row, which again is just puzzling...
I can't confirm that this happens when viewing the report initially from the web interface because the error doesn't get picked up until it is exported to Excel so that the users can work with the data.
Also, just thinking about it, and looking at these buggy rows in the export that I have saved I have noticed;
- The first buggy row is the 4th row of data, and references the header cells 4 rows above it (instead of the cells on the same row)
- The second buggy row is the 5th last row of data, and also references the cells 4 rows above it (instead of the cells on the same row)
Unfortunately I do not have any saved reports where this has happened in the past, so I can't really compare them to see if the same kind of pattern occurs.
And even more confusing is that simply exporting the report again will produce a correct report... However this can only happen after the user realises there is an error and goes back to do the export again, so that might also have something to do with it.
Has anyone else experienced this before, or have any suggestions for a workaround? I guess I could use an additional view to do the work, but I don't want to complicate maintenance on the report(s) that rely on the same data. I'm just baffled as to why this is even happening in the first place.
*Note: I haven't upgraded to SQL 2005 SP2 just yet, but the list of changes don't list a fix for this particular problem...
I need to have a report that will have formulas in excel. I understand that the limited support for exporting excel formulas has been dropped in SSRS 2008. Is there any way to work around this and still output formulas?obvioulsy the way to do it in previous versions of SSRS are not working (using report items). I tried to add my formulas in my dataset (I can know which excel cells I need in the formulas) but they end up being displayed as text. I then have to get in the excel file and enter and exit each cell so that it "becomes" a formula.
I have a table with a 'quantity' column (decimal 9:3) and a 'price' column (9:3). I have a third column 'amount' with a formula of (price * quantity). The formula gives the correct answer, but the precision is automatically set to 5. Is there any way to set the precision of the result to 2?
Looking for a decent source that has some examples of column formulas aswell as a list of column formula functions that can be used and how to usethem.Hard time finding something online. Any suggestions or references would begreatly appreciated.Fairly new to this.Thanks
ive come from a crystal background and im having difficulty writing reports.
An example of the problem im having is with saved formulas (crystal calls them formulas)
eg
i would create a forumula called Difference
it would be something like this
=DateDiff("d",Field1, Field2) save that and then it was stored
then in a text box i would reference it like so.
=iif( Difference <= 23,"Too New","Just Right")
is this possible in RS??? as i have reports i need to convert from crystal to RS, and the iif statements are becoming huge, especially when you reference the same formula in the expression multiple times.
bit long winded i know, and i hope this makes sense, but i am witts end with this issue
im moving over from a crystal background, in crystal i was able to create custom formulaes and use them somewhere in the report, can this be done in RS, if so how?
I have a table in my DB with the following columns: PlayerID, RoundNum, Score. PlayerID RoundNum Score 1 1 10 1 2 10 1 3 10 Any scoring for my game is going to end up in this table. However, I would like to display the score standings with a player's name at the far left, and with each Round as a column: R1 R2 R3Player1 10 10 10 Can any of the SQL gurus tell me if this is possible, and how it can be done? Thanks!
I have a created a DTS packges which is reading data from sql server table, manipulate this data as required and then create a text file with that data. I created the text file using FileSystemObject. I was writing one field at a time to the text file.
I need to same thing but instead of creating text file, I need to create a excel file with each column from database going to separate column in excel sheet. I tried to do this with FileSystemObject, but it was wrting all the columns from database to one cell in excel sheet. How can I fix this problem?
I'm trying to build a table that uses a formula with a function in another database on the same server group. Enterprise Manager validates the formula, then when I save the table, an ODBC error pops up stating that the function is an invalid object name. I'm calling the function in the formula as follows: ([OtherDatabase].[dbo].[FunctionName](parameters)). Any ideas?
I have a date column that has 1/1/1900 entries and I want to write a formula..(i think)...in the column formula section that when this date is encountered, the column should show NULL. I don't know the syntax to use in the formula section of the column properties. Can anyone give some syntax examples.
Trying to get the blank out of my report and replace with (0). My formula is SUM(Loan Amount). If there is nothing to sum there is a blank space. Would like it to have a (0) in it.
Hi,Please help, I'm getting desperate. Any ideas warmly welcomed!I'm trying to read from a basic excel file (1000 or so rows fromcolumn A) but am having problems. The code I am using is:Declare @Return IntSET NOCOUNT ONExec @Return= [master]..[sp_addlinkedServer] 'READ_XLS', 'EXCEL','Microsoft.Jet.OleDB.4.0' , 'e:jsbackupRACodes.xls',NULL, 'EXCEL 8.0'print 'set up Return : ' + convert(varchar(10),@Return)--NB E: is the drive as seen oon the serverEXEC sp_addlinkedsrvlogin@rmtsrvname = 'READ_XLS',@useself = 'true'print 'login Return : ' + convert(varchar(10),@Return)When I try to read from the (one) excel sheet in the file, viaSelect * from [READ_XLS]...RACodes$or to list what tables/sheets are available, viaexec sp_tables_ex 'READ_XLS'I get the following error:OLE DB provider 'Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0' reported an error.Authentication failed.[OLE/DB provider returned message: Cannot start your application. Theworkgroup information file is missing or opened exclusively by anotheruser.]OLE DB error trace [OLE/DB Provider 'Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0'IDBInitialize::Initialize returned 0x80040e4d: Authenticationfailed.].What am I missing?*Many* thanks in advance.Andy
Hi everybody, i'm a newbie to SSIS and I'm having a problem dynamically creating a new excel spreadsheet in SSIS. What I need to do is be able to dynamically create a brand new Excel spreadsheet after a data flow task completes.
When I try to create an Offline cube from Excel 2007 I get the following error message. This used to work but I cannot figure out what to loo for.
Code Snippet Microsoft OLE DB Provider for Analysis Services 2005 : OLE DB error: OLE DB or ODBC error: XML for Analysis parser: The 'CreatedTimestamp' read-only element at line 1, column 38747 (namespace http://schemas.microsoft.com/analysisservices/2003/engine) under Envelope/Body/Execute/Command/Batch/Create/ObjectDefinition/Database/Cubes/Cube/Scripts/MdxScript was ignored.; XML for Analysis parser: The 'LastSchemaUpdate' read-only element at line 1, column 38803 (namespace http://schemas.microsoft.com/analysisservices/2003/engine) under Envelope/Body/Execute/Command/Batch/Create/ObjectDefinition/Database/Cubes/Cube/Scripts/MdxScript was ignored.; XML for Analysis parser: The 'CurrentStorageMode' read-only element at line 1006, column 4554 (namespace http://schemas.microsoft.com/analysisservices/2003/engine) under Envelope/Body/Execute/Command/Batch/Create/ObjectDefinition/Database/Dimensions/Dimension was ignored.; XML for Analysis parser: The 'CurrentStorageMode' read-only element at line 1006, column 17325 (namespace http://schemas.microsoft.com/analysisservices/2003/engine) under Envelope/Body/Execute/Command/Batch/Create/ObjectDefinition/Database/Dimensions/Dimension was ignored.; XML for Analysis parser: The 'CurrentStorageMode' read-only element at line 1006, column 57387 (namespace http://schemas.microsoft.com/analysisservices/2003/engine) under Envelope/Body/Execute/Command/Batch/Create/ObjectDefinition/Database/Dimensions/Dimension was ignored.; XML for Analysis parser: The 'CurrentStorageMode' read-only element at line 1006, column 60047 (namespace http://schemas.microsoft.com/analysisservices/2003/engine) under Envelope/Body/Execute/Command/Batch/Create/ObjectDefinition/Database/Dimensions/Dimension was ignored.; XML for Analysis parser: The 'CurrentStorageMode' read-only element at line 1006, column 62847 (namespace http://schemas.microsoft.com/analysisservices/2003/engine) under Envelope/Body/Execute/Command/Batch/Create/ObjectDefinition/Database/Dimensions/Dimension was ignored.; XML for Analysis parser: The 'CurrentStorageMode' read-only element at line 1006, column 65497 (namespace http://schemas.microsoft.com/analysisservices/2003/engine) under Envelope/Body/Execute/Command/Batch/Create/ObjectDefinition/Database/Dimensions/Dimension was ignored.; XML for Analysis parser: The 'CurrentStorageMode' read-only element at line 1006, column 72718 (namespace http://schemas.microsoft.com/analysisservices/2003/engine) under Envelope/Body/Execute/Command/Batch/Create/ObjectDefinition/Database/Dimensions/Dimension was ignored.; XML for Analysis parser: The 'CurrentStorageMode' read-only element at line 1006, column 75425 (namespace http://schemas.microsoft.com/analysisservices/2003/engine) under Envelope/Body/Execute/Command/Batch/Create/ObjectDefinition/Database/Dimensions/Dimension was ignored.; Errors in the metadata manager. The attribute hierarchy for the Month attribute cannot be created because a hierarchy with the same ID or name already exists..
Can somebody advice my on what to look for? Thx!
The attribute hierarchy for the Month attribute cannot be created because a hierarchy with the same ID or name already exists. ----- There is no other Month?
I'm working with a DB design that seems to me to be rather complex.This is a very slimmed down version of what I'm doing, but I believe itis enough to get my question resolved.Here is my layout.These 4 tables are used to generate a questionaire.Survey OrderID========= ==========SurveyID OrderIDOrderID QuestionGrpIDQGrp Questions============= =============QuestionGrpID QuestionIDQuestionID QuestionTextThe following two tables are used to calculate a report that is sent tothe customer.RawData=========================OrderIDQuestionIDValue is string but is Cast as decimal for numeric formulasMetrics==============================================QuestionGroupID | ReportText | Formula | MetID==============================================2 | % Support Staff of Total | OP21/(OP21+OP22+OP23) | 1The OP references are questionIDsNow to calculate the result for the report we programatically parse theformula creating a temp table (table name = Temp & orderID & _ &QuestionID) with OrderID and OPxx as the field names. We create onetable for each question.We then use dynamic SQL again to calculate the result using the aboveformulaSELECT OP21/(OP21+OP22+OP23) FROM Temp5_21, Temp5_22, Temp5_23 WHERETemp5_21.OrderID = Temp5_22.orderID AND Temp5_22.OrderID =Temp5_23.OrderIDThis select is used to create a single table of calculated values.This table is in turn used to tell the customer how they compare toother customers. Percentile, Mean, Median, Std Dev, and a few others. Idon't claim this part of the project, but I'm not sure how I might havedone it, had it been assigned to me.MY PROBLEM!!!Sometimes a 0 is valid data and is the denominator of a devisioncalculation. Since this is so dynamic and it might be difficult todetermine when division is used. I need a way to default divide by 0execptions to NULL. This DB is on a hosted server.Thanks for bearing with me,Greg Kelley
I have welders who have active dates and inactive dates, and I need to create an "isactive" column in the report. My formula will be pretty obvious to most of you. However, if the user does not input an inactive date, that means none has been given and therefore the welder is currently active. The problem is that there seems to be no way to check if inactive date is null or not in the formula.
I am trying to create a pivot table in excel using Activex scripting but i am facing some problems in doing so, below is the code that I have written The line of the code where i am encountering error is highlighted in RED
Set ActiveWorkBook = oExcel.Workbooks.Open (sFile) Set oSheet = ActiveWorkBook.WorkSheets(1) oSheet.Range("A1:T1").Font.Bold = True oSheet.Cells.Select oSheet.Cells.EntireColumn.AutoFit oSheet.Range("A1").Select oSheet.Name = "Data_" & strName
Set oSheet = ActiveWorkBook.WorkSheets(2) oSheet.PivotCaches.Add(SourceType:=xlDatabase, SourceData:= "Sheet1!A$:T$").CreatePivotTable TableDestination:=Range("A3"), TableName :="PivotTable2" oSheet.PivotTables("PivotTable2").SmallGrid = False With oSheet.PivotTables("PivotTable2").PivotFields("Supervisor") .Orientation = xlRowField .Position = 1 End With With oSheet.PivotTables("PivotTable2").PivotFields("Operator") .Orientation = xlRowField .Position = 2 End With With oSheet.PivotTables("PivotTable2").PivotFields("Tag") .Orientation = xlDataField .Position = 1 End With With oSheet.PivotTables("PivotTable2").PivotFields("Dept") .Orientation = xlPageField .Position = 1 End With With oSheet.PivotTables("PivotTable2").PivotFields("Branch") .Orientation = xlPageField .Position = 2 End With With oSheet.PivotTables("PivotTable2").PivotFields("Location") .Orientation = xlPageField .Position = 3 End With With oSheet.PivotTables("PivotTable2").PivotFields("Type") .Orientation = xlPageField .Position = 4 End With oSheet.PivotTables("PivotTable2").RefreshTable ActiveWorkBook.WorkSheets(3).Delete 'ActiveWorkBook.WorkSheets(2).Delete oExcel.ActiveWorkBook.Save
'With ActiveWorkBook ' .SaveAs sFile ' .save 'End With
I'm exploring creating local cube files, .cub from an excel sheet with tables.Would SSAS be able to create one cube from taking data from a 1 way table (A, B, C), a 2 way table (AxB, BxC, AxC) and a 3 way table (AxBxC)?
I have an exiting excel workbook say master.xls. Now I need to dynamically create and append a new worksheet to the above master.xls every month end using the Reporting services.
Could you please guide me how dynamically creating the worksheets task can be achieved using the reporting services?
Your any guidance or help in this matter will be highly appreciated.
Hello all, I´m a beginner on AS2005 (but I know pretty well AS2000), I migrated a cube from AS2000 to AS2005 but in this cube I have a Custom Rollup Formula on two levels of my Time dimension (month and week), an example of the week level formula is the next: iif( [Time].CurrentMember.Name = [Time].CurrentMember.NextMember.Name, null, iif( [Time].CurrentMember.Name = [Time].CurrentMember.PrevMember.Name, Sum({[Time].CurrentMember.Children,[Time].CurrentMember.PrevMember.Children}), Sum([Time].CurrentMember.Children) ) ) <<this formula overrides the week aggregations>>
and I really need this but I cannot find on AS2005 where to do the same thing, someone can tell me where can I define Custom Rollup Formulas and how?. Thanks in advance!
I am just starting out using CUBEMEMBER/CUBEVALUE formulas in excel linked into a sql olap db - using this method for some custom reports where pivot tables are not suitable. The time dimension values include Months, Quarters and Years and the CUBEMEMBER formulas like
=CUBEMEMBER("OLAPCUBE","[Time].[Time].[Year].&[2015].&[1].&[1]") work fine - 1st quarter 1st month etc.
Is there a straightforward notation to aggregate months or do I need to use a plus sign to add a number of CUBEMEMBER formulas together.In other words - Is there an easier way of for say jan to july 2015 totals than
Trying to upload excel in server where excel is not installed. BIDs was there in the server, when i am trying to craete Excel source I am not able.what the workround for this.. How to upload excel without excel installed on the server.
I am using a Excel Source to get the data from an excel file to sql server 2005 table. A couple columns are coming in a double precision float, but some values have characters in them, but those values are coming out as null, even though I changed the datatype from float to unicode string. Any inputs on resolving this will be much appreciated.
We have 10 sheets in Excel File and 10 sheet contains errror data. How to load 9 sheets data in to 1 destination and error data in to other destination?
I am trying to get the contents of the Excel Files dynamically and dumping into the SQL Database using SSIS. Through WMI Event Watcher, I could find when one or more Excel files dumped in a particular folder and using ForEach Loop Container I was able to take all the filenames and pass it through Variables. But at the same time in the Data Flow, I have to pass each Sheet of an Excel File to the Excel Source control and export the data to my SQL Database using OLEDB Destination.
For that I need to get the names of each sheets in an Excel File and pass it to the Excel Source Control through variables. But when I give Data Access Mode as "Table name or view name variable" and provide the variable name in that, then it is giving an error message as "A destination table name has not been provided".
And at the same time, Since I was not able to provide an static Filename (as I am passing through Variables), when I tried to map the columns in the OleDB Destination, it is not allowing me to map the columns.
So all these things I should do at Run-time using Variables in SSIS. I don't want to hard-code any filenames or Sheet names. If any one of you have a solution, please share with me.
l've some excel files controlled by Vendor which changing frequently. The only thing does not change is the header name of each column.
So my question is, is there any way to create a new table based on the excel file selected including the column name in SSIS? So that l can use the data reader as source to select those columns l am interested on and start the integration.
