I wanted to know more about validation of SSRS parameters. I have a simple report which has a parameter called startdate of DateTime datatype. The datetime parameter in SSRS takes manual input as well. So, the user can enter any junk value. I want to ensure that the input parameter is in correct format and I want to display an error msg when the format is incorrect. My report has the following VB code for validation:
Public Function Validate( ByVal startdate As String) As Boolean
If IsDate(startdate) = True Then
Return True
Else
Return False
End If
End Function
And my report has a textbox which has the expression property set to;
=Code.Validate(Parameters!startdate.Value)
the textbox on the report has to display if the entered date is valid or not.
But, when i enter an erroneous date, SSRS doesn't render the report and throws a generic error. This happens even before the code written for validating the parameter executes.
Also couldn't find a way to disable the manual input for the datetime parameter. Even that would solve the problem.
Another alternative was to make the startdate parameter as string, but i want the calendar control button to be provided for the user.
How can we validate the input values from user for a datetime type report parameter? i.e. Validating whether the date is correct and in required format.
I'm sure what I am trying to do is very simple - but I just can't seem to figure it out. I have a report based on a SSAS cube (SQL 2005). The report shows sales based on the dates the user selects from the parameter field (the date parameter field comes from a Y-Q-M-D hierarchy). This all works fine.
What I would like to happen is for the members within the last 3 months to be automatically selected so that the report automatically executes for the last 3 months.
Can anyone help or offer any advice. If possible I would like to achieve this using the GUI features so that power users can use the "plug and pray interface".
I have an issue with validating an XML file I have from a 3rd party.
Willing to improve and standardise company's process, I have created an XML schema collection (SQL 2008R2), but when I validate the XML file against it I always keep getting the above error: Invalid simple type value dateTime.
Definition of dateTime from w3schools website says: ------ Start of quote ---- "DateTime Data Type The dateTime data type is used to specify a date and a time. The dateTime is specified in the following form "YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss" where: YYYY indicates the year MM indicates the month DD indicates the day T indicates the start of the required time section hh indicates the hour mm indicates the minute ss indicates the second
Note: All components are required!
The following is an example of a dateTime declaration in a schema:
<xs:element name="startdate" type="xs:dateTime"/> An element in your document might look like this: <startdate>2002-05-30T09:00:00</startdate>
------ End of quote ----
So I would assume that dates like 2012-10-24T14:23:00 or 2012-10-24T14:15:00 should be fine, but no -fails.
It works though only if I add "Z" at the end. Obviously 3rd party do not want to change anything, as it works for ages.
Is it possible to create a server side or client side validation for parameter inputs? For example, I want a calender input to error when a user tries to put in a date past the current date time
For the Data Driven Subscription in SSRS we are using the following stored procedure
In Step 3 - Create a data-driven subscription
create procedure spRSGetReportSettings
(
@ReportID as integer
) as
begin
set nocount on
declare @t as table(y int not null primary key)
declare
@cols as nvarchar(max),
@y as int,
@sql as nvarchar(max)
set @cols=stuff(
(select N',' + quotename(y) as [text()]
from (select ParameterName as y from Reportsettings where reportid=1) as Y
order by y
For XML Path('')),1,1,N'');
set @sql=N'select * from
(select reportid,parametername, parametervalue from ReportSettings where reportid= ' + Cast(@ReportID as varchar(5)) +' ) as D
pivot(min(parametervalue) for parametername in(' + @cols +N')) as p'
exec sp_executesql @sql
end
Basically the idea is to maintain a single report parameter setting table for multiple reports.
Structure of the table is as given below
ReportID, ParameterName, ParameterValue.
Using Pivot we can generate the ParameterName/ParameterValue combinations for each report. This stored procedure is working fine in query editors(Management Studio)
But, in SSRS it is giving any results.
In Step 4 - Create a data-driven subscription,
Get the value from the database drop down, I am not getting any database columns.
I've developed a report which works fine when I preview it in the Visual Studio report designer, but when it is uploaded to our report server and I try to access it via Internet Explorer, I get an error message saying: " Parameter validation failed. It is not possible to provide valid values for all parameters. (rsParameterError) "
How would I know exactly which parameter is causing this problem? I've built a couple of reports in the past and they worked fine. The only thing I can think of which is different in this report is that I have a couple of date parameters - Start Date and End Date, which allows the user to select a date range for the data they want to view.
In the SQL Server database, the date value is defined as SmallDateTime and in the Report Parameters the data type is defined as DateTime.
In the database there are Nulls and blanks in some of the fields - could this be the cause of the error?
I need to validate my text box value for instance when the user will enter the value if its 6 - 10 character its fine but if it's less than 6 I have to display a message invalid value.
Does anyone know of a link or list that has all the parameters for the "rs:" section of the URL access parameter, except for the ones in the Microsoft books?
I need "conditional" cascading parameters: In Report Manager when one changes parameter 1, parameter 2 get changed based on parameter 1. Optionally, one can also enter values to parameter 2 directly.
I was able to achieve this in SSRS 2000 (SP2) with the following setups. SSRS 2005 and SP1 no longer works - Parameter 2 always shows its default value regardless whether one select a value in Parameter 1 or not.
Parameter 1 available values: from query default values: non query (specify a value "<None>") Parameter 2 available values: Non query (no value specified) default values: from query (based on Parameter 1)
It seems to me that the default value in SSRS 2000 is considered as cascading parameter. But it is no longer the case in SSRS 2005.
Is this a SSRS 2005 bug? is there any other work arounds or suggestions?
I would like to be able to adjust the multi-value property of a parameter based on the value of another parameter in my report. The controlling paramter would be binary with two options for Single or Multiple selection. I would like my parameter to default to multi-value, which I can do on the screen selection. I have tried to add an IIF statement to the XML code, with no success. Any ideas would be helpful.
I'll go to a dataset, open up the query designer, add a new parameter, then refresh the fields, but the parameter won't be added as a report parameter. If I go to the dataset properties under the list of parameters, the value in the dropdown will be blank. However, sometimes this will automatically add.
Is this a bug in Visual Studio? How do I get around this?
I am not sure this is the correct place to post this question, but here it is. I am trying to pass some parameters to SSIS from a report using the report parameter, then SSIS will create the datareaderdest and return to the report to use.
Anyone have any idea, guidance or leads please share it out. Thanks in advance.
I am currently in the process of migrating data from Sybase to Sql server and would like to know how to test the data migrated.
As of now, we took one table data from both source and destination and compared it in Excel to check if the data migrated looks good (note, we used SSIS to migrate data). However, I would like to check if there are any other best & easy ways to apprach data validation post migration.
While run time these values are lets suppose @SSN = '999-000-000' & @State='ABC'
Now the Result is displayed with the state data Like 'AB' only.
Output: 1 999-000-000 AB
instead it should give system generated error.
Here I have 2 Questions: 1. Why it is taking 1st 2 Charecters? 2. Why it does not have any system generated for length?
I can do validation with Length function for these 2 variables however if have 100 variables then it should not feasible case. So, what is the reason behind?
update tblPact_2008_0307 set student_dob = '30/01/1996' where student_rcnumber = 1830when entering update date in format such as ddmmyyyyi know the sql query date format entered should be in mmddyyyy formatis there any way to change the date format entered to ddmmyyyy in sql query?
Advance thanks ....... My table is TimeSheet:----------------------------------- CREATE TABLE [dbo].[TimeSheet]( [autoid] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL, [UserId] [int] NOT NULL, [starttime] [datetime] NOT NULL, [endtime] [datetime] NOT NULL, [summary] [nvarchar](50) NOT NULL, [description] [nvarchar](50) NULL, [dtOfEntry] [datetime] NOT NULL, [Cancelled] [bit] NULL) ON [PRIMARY] My Query is------------------ insert into timesheet (UserId, StartTime,EndTime, Summary, Description,DtOfEntry) values (2, '19/04/2008 2:05:06 PM', '19/04/2008 2:05:06 PM', '66', '6666','19/04/2008 2:05:06 PM')i m not able to insert value Error Message is-------------------------Msg 242, Level 16, State 3, Line 1The conversion of a char data type to a datetime data type resulted in an out-of-range datetime value.The statement has been terminated. can any body give any solution
Hey, I have a big problem that i wanna search data from SQL by DateTime like thatselect * from test where recorddate='MyVariableWhichHoldDate'i use variable that holds Date info.i searched a lot infomation on net but there is no perfect solution. i know why this occur but there is no function to solve this problem. i used a lot of ways. it accept yyyy-mm-dd format but my variable format is dd-mm-yyyyy . is there any function for this problem? and any other solution.thanks for ur attentionregards
Hi, I have a column of type datetime in sqlserver 2000. Whenever I try to insert the date '31/08/2006 23:28:59' I get the error "...datetime data type resulted in an out-of-range datetime value" I've looked everywhere and I can't solve the problem. Please note, I first got this error from an asp.net page and in order to ensure that it wasn't some problem with culture settings I decided to run the query straight in Sql Query Anaylser. The results were the same. What else could it be? cheers, Ernest
Hi guys I am fairly new to t-sql. I am sure there are SPs or scripts that I can use to create a procedure that will do the data validation in the staging table...
Client send us data and often some of the records have bad values... what i have to create is a process that will check for those values and update a flag in the staging table for each column if the data is not valid....
Please help me out if you have something that can be used for this.
Being relatively new to SSIS, I'm looking for advice, or a best practice, regarding data validation before extracting the data for a transformation.
One of my project's require that certain data be validated in staging tables before it is loaded. The validations include checking for null values, verifying that a field is populated with apropriate values etc... The entire batch of data (good records and bad records) may be rejected depending on the validations.
I have a couple of different thoughts on how this could be handled...
Run a series of validation queries on the data before executing an SSIS package Run some kind of validation transformation (does one exist or should I write a custom transformation?) Place contraints on the target tables so that bad records error out on the load Something else... I could be missing the completely obvious
#3 doesn't seem to viable as the entire load may be rejected if some of the data is bad...
I have this question in one gridview: InsertCommand="INSERT INTO [Member] ([IC], [FirstName], [LastName], [Gender], [Birth], [Telephone], [Mobile], , [Address], [Postcode], [TimeOfRegistration]) VALUES (@IC, @FirstName, @LastName, @Gender, @Birth, @Telephone, @Mobile, @Email, @Address, @Postcode, @TimeOfRegistration)"If I want to insert into TimeOfRegistration with "System.DateTime.Today",can I have some expression to replace the "@TimeOfRegistration" in the SQL query? (<%# %>???Maybe?) If cannot, in the parameter control below, can I put it this way to achieve it? <asp:Parameter Name="TimeOfRegistration" Type=DateTime DefaultValue="<%# %>" />If so, how to put it? Thank you very much!
I have two tasks. 1. SQL Execution task to output a variable which must be a datetime value "2007/12/31 00:00:00.000" Variable name: Test Value Type: Datetime Value: 2007/12/31 00:00:00.000
2. Then in my OLEDB source i want use the parameter: I have setup the parameters for QRY = 0 (Test) QRY: WHERE WT.ApplyDtm = ?
I have two problems to this: 1. How do i know that my first task is bring back a value of datetime "2007/12/31 00:00:00.000" 2. In my QRY i have to put the parameter within '' , I tried '?' but it maons. The QRY should run: WHERE WT.ApplyDtm = '2007/12/31 00:00:00.000'
Hello all...I am trying to validate that the new work date that is being imported from the text file does not exist in the table. So in other words I do not want duplicate data. This is what I haveSqlDataReader dr = new SqlDataReader(); SqlParameter sp = new SqlParameter("@WorkDate", Data.SqlDbType.datetime, 8, Data.ParameterDirection.Input); if (dr.HasRows) sp = "@WorkDate"; else *How does that look? Am I in the ball part…
I have one question regarding SQL Server replication.
I have setup SQLServer merge replication at my work, one of our subscriptions has unreliable connection to the publisher, after setting up the replication to this subscriber, it happened once that the connection was really bad so the merge agent for this subscription was failing before synchronizing data changes, and after that , the connection went good & the merge agent completed the synchronization successfully.
After a while I decided to validate all subscriptions, I discovered that this subscription has different row count for many articles although the merge agent was finishing all synchronizations successfully!!
so my question is:
how could this happen? I mean finishing the sync with success and still have different records!!
I thought that SQL Server will keep make the sync fail just because it can't do it!!
Is it right or there is something I misunderstood here?
How can I prevent this from happening again? at least I want SQL Server to inform me by failing the merge agent synchronizations.
I new here so hopefully I'm asking this question in the correct forum. I'm have a flat file that contains numbers that I need to verify that they begin with certain prefixes so they load to the correct client. For example in the flat file if I'm loading data for client A and their account numbers begin with 045XXXXXXX then it loads the data. But if there is a record that begins with 037XXXXXXX it should be loaded to client B instead and that records gets written to a error file.
So to summarize what I need , I'm looking for a check to kick out records if I'm loading client A's data versus if I'm loading client B's data.
Hello everyone, I have spent hours trying to figure out the validation issue with SQL Server Reporting Services with no luck.I am hoping someone can help me with the issue. Basically I am looking for a way to validate the data entered by the user in the parameterized Reports. say, the field is defined as int datatype. If user enter String, it should display the message saying string cannot be entered. Currently, My report does not check the user entered datatype, runs the underlying query and displays the error thrown by the DB ( oracle in my case). I get : An error has occured during report processing Cannot read the next data row.... ORA-01722: invalid number
Instead of this, validation even before query is executed would have been perfect. Is there a way to do that?
