Design Advice For Report Architecture
Jan 24, 2008
Any design suggestions for the best way to architect this report using SQL Reporting Services 2005 are appreciated!
My website features a catalog of roughly 50,000 items, each of which may be appear in a list of search results or in a detailed view. There are counters on the pages that update totals for such appearances and track other item-specific information in several tables in a SQL database. The catalog of items changes frequently, so the list of item IDs is never exactly the same from month to month.
I've been asked to produce a monthly report of this data for each of the items in the catalog, with reports for the current and previous months (for many years) accessible at all times. Some -- but not all -- items are useful for one purpose or another and so can be considered as belonging to a group of items. Although I have not yet been asked to create a report that aggregates the values for all Group members into a single report for that Group, I can clearly see it would be valuable and will be requested soon.
To ensure the report captures the data for an entire month, it must be run at the very end of each month. That means I will need to run the report using a Schedule that kicks off the process at 12:01am every 1st of the month. The report must be processed and stored for later retrieval and rendering on demand.
Considering the number of items and the indefinite length of time the report data must be retained, my question is really what's the best way to set all this up?
Should I create a report for each item separately? That would mean the scheduled task would have to somehow discover the current list of item IDs (which is available via query from the database) and create and process (but not render) a report for each (passing the item ID as a report parameter?), adding it to the report history. Although each report would be small take only a short time to run, overall that seems like it would take a long time to run and create a huge number of reports to store each month.
Or should I create a single 'master' report that contains all the data for every item for the month, and then use the item ID as a filter on the data when it is rendered? While that means only one report is created each month and added to the history, it would be a much larger report and take much longer to run (with more potential for timeouts and errors to scuttle the whole report). It also means all the data for the entire report has to be loaded every time the report is rendered, even though only 1/50,000 of the data (the data for 1 of the 50,000 items) will actually be viewed with any given rendering. But that would seem overly cumbersome, slow, and wastefully band-width intensive.
Any alternatives, suggestions, considerations, etc. -- all welcome!
Thanks
BillB
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Oct 8, 2007
Can anybody give me design ideas on the following?
I have numerous tasks, any one of which can fail. I want to point them all (via 'Failure' constraint) to a SendMail task for a "failure notification" email. This I have setup, and is working fine. Now, I want to have a changing message for the email's body (MessageSource) to say "Process A has failed", or "Process B has failed", etc.
My initial thought was to add a variable, then add a ScriptTask between each task and the single SendMailTask, have the script update the variable, and have the MessageSource (body of email) mapped to the variable. Is this the proper way to go about this? Seems like if I have 20 processes that could fail, then I'll have to add 20 script files; this becomes a bit unwieldy the more processes that I want to monitor.
Is there a better way to accmoplish this?
Thx,
Mojo
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Jun 5, 2014
We have a Silverlight based application which currently supports only one production version. Idea is to support three concurrent versions of the same application and user will switch to the newer versions based on their interest or they can still continue with the older version.
We still have to use the existing database for all these three versions.
What is the best way to architect this so that we can differentiate the code between the versions and still keep the data in sync and run all the versions in parallel.
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Jan 12, 2007
I'm creating a DB to track clients, programs, and client participation in the programs. They are service programs. A client can be in more than one program and a program can have more than one client.
Can someone give me an example of how they would layout the tables?
My guess is:
tblClient, ClientID
tblClientProgramLog, ProLogID, ClientID
tblProgramDetails, ProDetailID, ProLogID
tblPrograms, ProgramID, ProDetailID
I appreciate any suggestions,
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Jul 9, 2004
I'm trying to design a database that handles Clients, Cases, Individual and Group Sessions. My problem is that a client can have individual sessions and belong to more than one group at the same time, so I have a many-to-many relationship to deal with. Also I'm trying to design it so that I can have a form that when a group is selected from a drop down it shows all clients assigned to that group and will let me enter new session data for them.
Just looking for some advice on how to handle the relationships.
Maybe someone could show me how they see the relationships working.
My take is that the session is linked to the case not the client, I could be thinking incorrectly?
Thank you,
tblClient
tblClientCase
tblCaseSessionLog
tblClientCaseGroupLink
tblGroups
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Jun 3, 2004
I have an construction estimation system, and I want to develop a project management system. I will be using the same database because there are shared tables. My question is this, critical data tables are considered tables with dollar values and these tables should not be shared across the whole company. I do however need information from these tables, such as product and quantity of the product for a given project. When an estimate becomes a project it is assigned a project number. At this point I thought of Copying the required data from the estimate side to the project side. This would result in duplicate data in a sence but the tables will be referenced from two standalone front end applications. Should I copy the data from one table to another, or create new "views" to the estimate tables for the project management portion.
What would be the best solution to this problem? I find in some circumstances, a new table is required because additional data will be saved on the "Project Management" side, but not in all cases.
Mike B
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Oct 19, 2007
Hello,
I am creating a database where:
- I have a Blogs and Folders system.
- Use a common design so I can implement new systems in the future.
Users, Comments, Ratings, View, Tags and Categories are tables common to all systems, i.e., used by Posts and Files in Blogs and Folders.
- One Tag or Category can be associated to many Posts or Files.
- One Comment, View or Rating should be only associated to one Post or one File. I am missing this ... (1)
Relations between a File / Folder and Comments / Ratings / View / Tags / Categories are done using FilesRatings, FoldersViews, etc.
I am using UniqueIdentifier as Primary Keys.
I checked ASP.NET Membership tables, a few articles and few features in my project, such as renaming files with the GUID of their records.
I didn't decided yet for INT or UNIQUEIDENTIFIER.
I am looking for some feedback on the design of my database.
One thing I need to improve is mentioned in (1)
Thank You,
Miguel
My Database Script:
-- Users ...
create table dbo.Users
(
UserID uniqueidentifier not null
constraint PK_User primary key clustered,
[Name] nvarchar(200) not null,
Email nvarchar(200) null,
UpdatedDate datetime not null
)
-- Categories ...
create table dbo.Categories
(
CategoryID uniqueidentifier not null
constraint PK_Category primary key clustered,
[Name] nvarchar(100) not null
)
-- Comments ...
create table dbo.Comments
(
CommentID uniqueidentifier not null
constraint PK_Comment primary key clustered,
AuthorID uniqueidentifier not null,
Title nvarchar(400) null,
Body nvarchar(max) null,
UpdatedDate datetime not null,
constraint FK_Comments_Users
foreign key(AuthorID)
references dbo.Users(UserID)
)
-- Ratings ...
create table dbo.Ratings
(
RatingID uniqueidentifier not null
constraint PK_Rating primary key clustered,
AuthorID uniqueidentifier not null,
Value float not null,
constraint FK_Ratings_Users
foreign key(AuthorID)
references dbo.Users(UserID)
)
-- Tags ...
create table dbo.Tags
(
TagID uniqueidentifier not null
constraint PK_Tag primary key clustered,
[Name] nvarchar(100) not null
)
-- Views ...
create table dbo.Views
(
ViewID uniqueidentifier not null
constraint PK_View primary key clustered,
Ticket [datetime] not null
)
-- Blogs ...
create table dbo.Blogs
(
BlogID uniqueidentifier not null
constraint PK_Blog primary key clustered,
Title nvarchar(400) null,
Description nvarchar(2000) null,
CreatedDate datetime null
)
-- Posts ...
create table dbo.Posts
(
PostID uniqueidentifier not null
constraint PK_Post primary key clustered,
BlogID uniqueidentifier not null,
AuthorID uniqueidentifier not null,
Title nchar(1000) null,
Body nvarchar(max) null,
UpdatedDate datetime not null,
IsPublished bit not null,
constraint FK_Posts_Blogs
foreign key(BlogID)
references dbo.Blogs(BlogID)
on delete cascade,
constraint FK_Posts_Users
foreign key(AuthorID)
references dbo.Users(UserID)
on delete cascade
)
-- PostsCategories ...
create table dbo.PostsCategories
(
PostID uniqueidentifier not null,
CategoryID uniqueidentifier not null,
constraint PK_PostsCategories
primary key clustered (PostID, CategoryID),
constraint FK_PostsCategories_Posts
foreign key(PostID)
references dbo.Posts(PostID)
on delete cascade,
constraint FK_PostsCategories_Categories
foreign key(CategoryID)
references dbo.Categories(CategoryID)
)
-- PostsComments ...
create table dbo.PostsComments
(
PostID uniqueidentifier not null,
CommentID uniqueidentifier not null,
constraint PK_PostsComments
primary key clustered (PostID, CommentID),
constraint FK_PostsComments_Posts
foreign key(PostID)
references dbo.Posts(PostID)
on delete cascade,
constraint FK_PostsComments_Comments
foreign key(CommentID)
references dbo.Comments(CommentID)
on delete cascade
)
-- PostsRatings ...
create table dbo.PostsRatings
(
PostID uniqueidentifier not null,
RatingID uniqueidentifier not null,
constraint PK_PostsRatings
primary key clustered (PostID, RatingID),
constraint FK_PostsRatings_Posts
foreign key(PostID)
references dbo.Posts(PostID)
on delete cascade,
constraint FK_PostsRatings_Ratings
foreign key(RatingID)
references dbo.Ratings(RatingID)
on delete cascade
)
-- PostsTags ...
create table dbo.PostsTags
(
PostID uniqueidentifier not null,
TagID uniqueidentifier not null,
constraint PK_PostsTags
primary key clustered (PostID, TagID),
constraint FK_PostsTags_Posts
foreign key(PostID)
references dbo.Posts(PostID)
on delete cascade,
constraint FK_PostsTags_Tags
foreign key(TagID)
references dbo.Tags(TagID)
)
-- PostsViews ...
create table dbo.PostsViews
(
PostID uniqueidentifier not null,
ViewID uniqueidentifier not null,
constraint PK_PostsViews
primary key clustered (PostID, ViewID),
constraint FK_PostsViews_Posts
foreign key(PostID)
references dbo.Posts(PostID)
on delete cascade,
constraint FK_PostsViews_Views
foreign key(ViewID)
references dbo.Views(ViewID)
on delete cascade
)
-- Folders ...
create table dbo.Folders
(
FolderID uniqueidentifier not null
constraint PK_Folder primary key clustered,
[Name] nvarchar(100) null,
Description nvarchar(2000) null,
CreatedDate datetime not null,
URL nvarchar(400) not null
)
-- Files ...
create table dbo.Files
(
FileID uniqueidentifier not null
constraint PK_File primary key clustered,
FolderID uniqueidentifier not null,
AuthorID uniqueidentifier not null,
Title nvarchar(400) null,
Description nvarchar(2000) null,
[Name] nvarchar(100) not null,
URL nvarchar(400) not null,
UpdatedDate datetime not null,
IsPublished bit not null,
Type nvarchar(50) null,
constraint FK_Files_Folders
foreign key(FolderID)
references dbo.Folders(FolderID)
on delete cascade,
constraint FK_Files_Users
foreign key(AuthorID)
references dbo.Users(UserID)
on delete cascade
)
-- FilesCategories ...
create table dbo.FilesCategories
(
FileID uniqueidentifier not null,
CategoryID uniqueidentifier not null,
constraint PK_FilesCategories
primary key clustered (FileID, CategoryID),
constraint FK_FilesCategories_Files
foreign key(FileID)
references dbo.Files(FileID)
on delete cascade,
constraint FK_FilesCategories_Categories
foreign key(CategoryID)
references dbo.Categories(CategoryID)
)
-- FilesComments ...
create table dbo.FilesComments
(
FileID uniqueidentifier not null,
CommentID uniqueidentifier not null,
constraint PK_FilesComments
primary key clustered (FileID, CommentID),
constraint FK_FilesComments_Files
foreign key(FileID)
references dbo.Files(FileID)
on delete cascade,
constraint FK_FilesComments_Comments
foreign key(CommentID)
references dbo.Comments(CommentID)
on delete cascade
)
-- FilesRatings ...
create table dbo.FilesRatings
(
FileID uniqueidentifier not null,
RatingID uniqueidentifier not null,
constraint PK_FilesRatings
primary key clustered (FileID, RatingID),
constraint FK_FilesRatings_Files
foreign key(FileID)
references dbo.Files(FileID)
on delete cascade,
constraint FK_FilesRatings_Ratings
foreign key(RatingID)
references dbo.Ratings(RatingID)
on delete cascade
)
-- FilesTags ...
create table dbo.FilesTags
(
FileID uniqueidentifier not null,
TagID uniqueidentifier not null,
constraint PK_FilesTags
primary key clustered (FileID, TagID),
constraint FK_FilesTags_Files
foreign key(FileID)
references dbo.Files(FileID)
on delete cascade,
constraint FK_FilesTags_Tags
foreign key(TagID)
references dbo.Tags(TagID)
)
-- FilesViews ...
create table dbo.FilesViews
(
FileID uniqueidentifier not null,
ViewID uniqueidentifier not null,
constraint PK_FilesViews
primary key clustered (FileID, ViewID),
constraint FK_FilesViews_Files
foreign key(FileID)
references dbo.Files(FileID)
on delete cascade,
constraint FK_FilesViews_Views
foreign key(ViewID)
references dbo.Views(ViewID)
on delete cascade
)
-- Run script
go
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Nov 27, 2007
Hello Everyone. Im sorry for this urgent post, but have critical issue that needs a solution quick. So for my issue. I am adjusting our sales order tables to handle a couple different scenarios. Currently we have 2 tables for sales orders
SALESORDERS
------------
SORDERNBR int PK,
{ Addtl Header Columns... }
SALESORDERDETAILS
-------------------
SODETAILID int,
SORDERNBR int FK,
PN varchar,
SN varchar(25),
{ Addtl Detail Columns ... }
Currently the sales order line item is serial number specific. I need to change the tables to be able to handle different requests like :
Line Item Request ( PN, QTY )
Line Item Request ( SN )
Line Item Request ( PN, GRADE, QTY )
ETC.
I am thinking i need to create a new table to hold the specifics for a particular line item. Maybe like this :
SALESORDERSPECS
----------------
SOSPECID int,
SODETAILID int FK,
SPECTYPE varchar, IE : SN, PN, GRADE. { one value per row }
SPECVALUE varchar IE : GRADE A
Im thinking i would need to rename the SALESORDERDETAILS table to SALESORDERITEMS. SALESORDERITEMS would just contain header info like
SalePrice,
Warranty,
Etc...
Then rename SALESORDERSPECS to SALESORDERDETAILS...
Anyone understand what im trying to do? If you need more info please ask. You can also get a hold of me through IM.
Thanks!
JayDial
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May 18, 2006
Hi All, I have read MANY posts on how to track changes to data overtimeIt appears there are two points of view1. Each record supports a Change Indicator flag toindicate the current record(would this be EVERY table?)2. Each table is duplicated as an archive table andtriggers are used to update archiveCan someone give me some guidance based on REAL world experiencewhich works best for them?My scenario - I have insurance policies and must track history aspolicies are updated by customer service reps.Imagine many tables Policy>LifePol>LifePolRiders[color=blue]>AccidentPol >etc...>DIPol>DIPolRiders[/color]To me the archive table scenario does not seem scalable at all....someguidance on design would be aprreciated...Thanks!!!
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Oct 21, 2007
Hello,
I am creating a database where:
- I have a Blogs and Folders system.
- Use a common design so I can implement new systems in the future.
Users, Comments, Ratings, View, Tags and Categories are tables common to all systems, i.e., used by Posts and Files in Blogs and Folders.
- One Tag or Category can be associated to many Posts or Files.
- One Comment, View or Rating should be only associated to one Post or one File. I am missing this ... (1)
Relations between a File / Folder and Comments / Ratings / View / Tags / Categories are done using FilesRatings, FoldersViews, etc.
I am using UniqueIdentifier as Primary Keys.
I checked ASP.NET Membership tables, a few articles and few features in my project, such as renaming files with the GUID of their records.
I didn't decided yet for INT or UNIQUEIDENTIFIER
I am looking for some feedback on the design of my database.
One thing I think need to improve is mentioned in (1)
But any advices to improve it would be great.
Thank You,
Miguel
My Database Script:
-- Users ...
create table dbo.Users
(
UserID uniqueidentifier not null
constraint PK_User primary key clustered,
[Name] nvarchar(200) not null,
Email nvarchar(200) null,
UpdatedDate datetime not null
)
-- Categories ...
create table dbo.Categories
(
CategoryID uniqueidentifier not null
constraint PK_Category primary key clustered,
[Name] nvarchar(100) not null
)
-- Comments ...
create table dbo.Comments
(
CommentID uniqueidentifier not null
constraint PK_Comment primary key clustered,
AuthorID uniqueidentifier not null,
Title nvarchar(400) null,
Body nvarchar(max) null,
UpdatedDate datetime not null,
constraint FK_Comments_Users
foreign key(AuthorID)
references dbo.Users(UserID)
)
-- Ratings ...
create table dbo.Ratings
(
RatingID uniqueidentifier not null
constraint PK_Rating primary key clustered,
AuthorID uniqueidentifier not null,
Value float not null,
constraint FK_Ratings_Users
foreign key(AuthorID)
references dbo.Users(UserID)
)
-- Tags ...
create table dbo.Tags
(
TagID uniqueidentifier not null
constraint PK_Tag primary key clustered,
[Name] nvarchar(100) not null
)
-- Views ...
create table dbo.Views
(
ViewID uniqueidentifier not null
constraint PK_View primary key clustered,
Ticket [datetime] not null
)
-- Blogs ...
create table dbo.Blogs
(
BlogID uniqueidentifier not null
constraint PK_Blog primary key clustered,
Title nvarchar(400) null,
Description nvarchar(2000) null,
CreatedDate datetime null
)
-- Posts ...
create table dbo.Posts
(
PostID uniqueidentifier not null
constraint PK_Post primary key clustered,
BlogID uniqueidentifier not null,
AuthorID uniqueidentifier not null,
Title nchar(1000) null,
Body nvarchar(max) null,
UpdatedDate datetime not null,
IsPublished bit not null,
constraint FK_Posts_Blogs
foreign key(BlogID)
references dbo.Blogs(BlogID)
on delete cascade,
constraint FK_Posts_Users
foreign key(AuthorID)
references dbo.Users(UserID)
on delete cascade
)
-- PostsCategories ...
create table dbo.PostsCategories
(
PostID uniqueidentifier not null,
CategoryID uniqueidentifier not null,
constraint PK_PostsCategories
primary key clustered (PostID, CategoryID),
constraint FK_PostsCategories_Posts
foreign key(PostID)
references dbo.Posts(PostID)
on delete cascade,
constraint FK_PostsCategories_Categories
foreign key(CategoryID)
references dbo.Categories(CategoryID)
)
-- PostsComments ...
create table dbo.PostsComments
(
PostID uniqueidentifier not null,
CommentID uniqueidentifier not null,
constraint PK_PostsComments
primary key clustered (PostID, CommentID),
constraint FK_PostsComments_Posts
foreign key(PostID)
references dbo.Posts(PostID)
on delete cascade,
constraint FK_PostsComments_Comments
foreign key(CommentID)
references dbo.Comments(CommentID)
on delete cascade
)
-- PostsRatings ...
create table dbo.PostsRatings
(
PostID uniqueidentifier not null,
RatingID uniqueidentifier not null,
constraint PK_PostsRatings
primary key clustered (PostID, RatingID),
constraint FK_PostsRatings_Posts
foreign key(PostID)
references dbo.Posts(PostID)
on delete cascade,
constraint FK_PostsRatings_Ratings
foreign key(RatingID)
references dbo.Ratings(RatingID)
on delete cascade
)
-- PostsTags ...
create table dbo.PostsTags
(
PostID uniqueidentifier not null,
TagID uniqueidentifier not null,
constraint PK_PostsTags
primary key clustered (PostID, TagID),
constraint FK_PostsTags_Posts
foreign key(PostID)
references dbo.Posts(PostID)
on delete cascade,
constraint FK_PostsTags_Tags
foreign key(TagID)
references dbo.Tags(TagID)
)
-- PostsViews ...
create table dbo.PostsViews
(
PostID uniqueidentifier not null,
ViewID uniqueidentifier not null,
constraint PK_PostsViews
primary key clustered (PostID, ViewID),
constraint FK_PostsViews_Posts
foreign key(PostID)
references dbo.Posts(PostID)
on delete cascade,
constraint FK_PostsViews_Views
foreign key(ViewID)
references dbo.Views(ViewID)
on delete cascade
)
-- Folders ...
create table dbo.Folders
(
FolderID uniqueidentifier not null
constraint PK_Folder primary key clustered,
[Name] nvarchar(100) null,
Description nvarchar(2000) null,
CreatedDate datetime not null,
URL nvarchar(400) not null
)
-- Files ...
create table dbo.Files
(
FileID uniqueidentifier not null
constraint PK_File primary key clustered,
FolderID uniqueidentifier not null,
AuthorID uniqueidentifier not null,
Title nvarchar(400) null,
Description nvarchar(2000) null,
[Name] nvarchar(100) not null,
URL nvarchar(400) not null,
UpdatedDate datetime not null,
IsPublished bit not null,
Type nvarchar(50) null,
constraint FK_Files_Folders
foreign key(FolderID)
references dbo.Folders(FolderID)
on delete cascade,
constraint FK_Files_Users
foreign key(AuthorID)
references dbo.Users(UserID)
on delete cascade
)
-- FilesCategories ...
create table dbo.FilesCategories
(
FileID uniqueidentifier not null,
CategoryID uniqueidentifier not null,
constraint PK_FilesCategories
primary key clustered (FileID, CategoryID),
constraint FK_FilesCategories_Files
foreign key(FileID)
references dbo.Files(FileID)
on delete cascade,
constraint FK_FilesCategories_Categories
foreign key(CategoryID)
references dbo.Categories(CategoryID)
)
-- FilesComments ...
create table dbo.FilesComments
(
FileID uniqueidentifier not null,
CommentID uniqueidentifier not null,
constraint PK_FilesComments
primary key clustered (FileID, CommentID),
constraint FK_FilesComments_Files
foreign key(FileID)
references dbo.Files(FileID)
on delete cascade,
constraint FK_FilesComments_Comments
foreign key(CommentID)
references dbo.Comments(CommentID)
on delete cascade
)
-- FilesRatings ...
create table dbo.FilesRatings
(
FileID uniqueidentifier not null,
RatingID uniqueidentifier not null,
constraint PK_FilesRatings
primary key clustered (FileID, RatingID),
constraint FK_FilesRatings_Files
foreign key(FileID)
references dbo.Files(FileID)
on delete cascade,
constraint FK_FilesRatings_Ratings
foreign key(RatingID)
references dbo.Ratings(RatingID)
on delete cascade
)
-- FilesTags ...
create table dbo.FilesTags
(
FileID uniqueidentifier not null,
TagID uniqueidentifier not null,
constraint PK_FilesTags
primary key clustered (FileID, TagID),
constraint FK_FilesTags_Files
foreign key(FileID)
references dbo.Files(FileID)
on delete cascade,
constraint FK_FilesTags_Tags
foreign key(TagID)
references dbo.Tags(TagID)
)
-- FilesViews ...
create table dbo.FilesViews
(
FileID uniqueidentifier not null,
ViewID uniqueidentifier not null,
constraint PK_FilesViews
primary key clustered (FileID, ViewID),
constraint FK_FilesViews_Files
foreign key(FileID)
references dbo.Files(FileID)
on delete cascade,
constraint FK_FilesViews_Views
foreign key(ViewID)
references dbo.Views(ViewID)
on delete cascade
)
-- Run script
go
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Oct 22, 2007
Hi all-
I have a schema that is mostly working, but I was wondering if some of you with more experience than I might give me some constructive criticism on my methodology.
Basically, I have a single table that stores data for many records. Each record has a variable number of fields, each of which can be a different data type. Later, queries will pull filtered subsets of data from the table, and do calculations on specific fields. In my implementation, the fields for a record are bound together by the datagroup (uniqueidentifier) column in the LotsOData table, the field name is defined by the dataname column, and the field value is stored in the datavalue column, which is type sql_variant.
One problem I had, and I'm not able to reliably replicate, is that the more complicated queries sometimes raise casting errors on the sql_variant column, even when the data is absolutely correct. I've been able to avoid this case by pre-selecting some of the subqueries into temporary tables first, then joining on the temp tables in the main query, but that seems horribly inefficient.
I've included a sample table, data, and query to demonstrate my basic solution. I was wondering if anybody could provide some insight on a better way of designing a solution for this scenario.
Thanks!
-Eric.
PS: bonus points if you have any insight at all on the casting error I mentioned!!
-- create tablecreate table LotsOData( pk int identity, dataname nvarchar(16) not null, datagroup uniqueidentifier, datavalue sql_variant);-- lot of insertsdeclare @group_a uniqueidentifier, @group_b uniqueidentifier, @group_c uniqueidentifier;set @group_a = newid();set @group_b = newid();set @group_c = newid();insert into LotsOData (dataname, datagroup, datavalue)select 'some_int', @group_a, 1union all select 'some_int', @group_b, 2union all select 'some_int', @group_c, 3insert into LotsOData (dataname, datagroup, datavalue)select 'some_char', @group_a, 'a'union all select 'some_char', @group_b, 'b'union all select 'some_char', @group_c, 'c'insert into LotsOData (dataname, datagroup, datavalue)select 'some_string', @group_a, 'abc'union all select 'some_string', @group_b, '!@#'union all select 'some_string', @group_c, 'xyz'insert into LotsOData (dataname, datagroup, datavalue)select 'some_float', @group_a, 1.23union all select 'some_float', @group_b, 2.34union all select 'some_float', @group_c, 3.45insert into LotsOData (dataname, datagroup, datavalue)select 'some_datetime', @group_a, cast('01/01/2001 01:00:00' as datetime)union all select 'some_datetime', @group_b, getdate()union all select 'some_datetime', @group_c, cast('01/01/2009 01:00:00' as datetime)-- do some big ugly query:select cast(a.datavalue as datetime) as datatime_data, cast(b.datavalue as int) as int_data, cast(c.datavalue as char(1)) as char_data, cast(d.datavalue as nvarchar(max)) as string_data, cast(e.datavalue as float) as float_data, cast(b.datavalue as int) * cast(e.datavalue as float) as calc_datafrom ( select datavalue, datagroup from LotsOData where dataname = 'some_datetime' ) a inner join ( select datavalue, datagroup from LotsOData where dataname = 'some_int' ) b on b.datagroup = a.datagroup inner join ( select datavalue, datagroup from LotsOData where dataname = 'some_char' ) c on c.datagroup = a.datagroup inner join ( select datavalue, datagroup from LotsOData where dataname = 'some_string' ) d on d.datagroup = a.datagroup inner join ( select datavalue, datagroup from LotsOData where dataname = 'some_float' ) e on e.datagroup = a.datagroupwhere cast(a.datavalue as datetime) between '01/01/2006' and '01/01/2008';
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I need to create a text file using information from SQL tables/views in the following format...Can anyone recommend a direction or procedure to look into, i.e, sql script, custom dts, etc. The items in parentheses identify specific portions of the text file.
(01)
101081,84423,customer ,072304,customer ,11310 Via Playa De Cortes , ,San Diego ,CA,92124,
(02) 6 ,1 , , , , ,22 ,1 ,0.00 ,160.46 ,160.46 ,0.00 , , , , , , , , ,1,1
(03)B130907540,5.41 ,1
(03)B130907550,5.41 ,1
(03)B130907560,5.41 ,1
(03)B130907570,6.04 ,1
(03)B065007550,1.72 ,2
(03)B065007560,1.72 ,6
(03)B519926530,4.66 ,13
(03)B519926550,4.66 ,12
(03)B560911200,2.14 ,1
(03)B560912500,2.14 ,1
(03)B095305750,3.65 ,1
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Jul 23, 2005
Hi,I have two tables Table A and B, below with some dummy data...Table A (contains specific unique settings that can be requested)Id, SettingName1, weight2, lengthTable B (contains the setting values, here 3 values relate to weightand 1 to length)Id, Brand, SettingValue1, A, 1001, B, 2001, null, 3002, null, 5.3(There is also a list of Brands available in another table). No primarykeys / referential integrity has been setup yet.Basically depending upon the Brand requested a different setting valuewill be present. If a particular brand is not present (signified by anull in the Brand column in table B), then a default value will beused.Therefore if I request the weight and pass through a Brand of A, I willget 100If I request the weight but do not pass through a brand (i.e. null) Iwill get 300.My question is, what kind of integrity can I apply to avoid the userspecifying duplicate Ids and Brands in table B. I cannot apply acomposite key on these two fields as a null is present. Table B willprobably contain about 50 rows and probably 10 of them will be brandspecific. The reason its done like this is in the calling client code Iwant to call some function e.g.getsetting(weight) .... result = 300Or if it is brand specificgetsetting(weight,A) ..... result = 100Any advice on integrity or table restructuring would be greatlyappreciated. Its sql 2000 sp3.Thanksbrad
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Jul 6, 2006
Hello all,
I have recently been task with rewriting a database that holds large volumes of data, whilst ensuring that query can be run in optimal time. Having never really delved into this sort of thing before, I hoped you guys might be able to offer some advice and guidance.
The design I have inherited is based around 2 main tables:
[captured_traps]
[id] [int] IDENTITY (1, 1) NOT NULL
[snmp_version] [int] NULL
[community_name] [varchar] (255)
[packet_type] [varchar] (50)
[oid] [varchar] (500)
[source_ip] [varchar] (15)
[generic] [int] NULL
[specific] [int] NULL
[time_stamp] [varchar] (15)
[trap_entered] [datetime] NULL
[status] [int] NULL
[captured_varbinds]
[id] [int] IDENTITY (1, 1) NOT NULL
[captured_trap_id] [int] NOT NULL
[varbind_oid] [varchar] (500)
[varbind_text] [varchar (500)
The relationship between the two tables is on the "captured_traps (id)" to "captured_varbinds (captured_trap_id)". Currently the "captured_traps" table contains around 350 million rows, the "captured_varbinds" table contains around 900 million rows.
Now as you can probably gather this model runs like a....well it sort of hobbles more than runs hence the need to redesign.
My current thoughts on this are:
- Normalising all varchars - there is alot of duplicate values in most of the varchar fields.
- Full Text Indexing
However beyond that I am not sure which route to go down. After googling for most of today I have come across a number of "solutions" however I do not want to go steaming down the track of one of these to discover that it is fatally flawed somewhere.
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Mar 2, 2007
Hi,
I have a couple of reports that I created within the SQL Report Designer, I
would like to give the ability to the end user of C# Winform application to
be able to make modification to this .rdl file using the Report Builder,
however when I try and launch the report that I created within the Report
Designer using the Report builder I get the following error..
Microsoft.ReportingServices.ReportBuilder.ReportModel.Report: The report
'http://localhost/ReportServer/MyReport)' cannot be opened because no data
source is associated with it. Associate a model data source with this report
and try again.
How can I resolve this situation.
I'm not sure if my approach is the best or if I'm I should be looking at the solution from another approach
Thanks
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Mar 25, 2008
I'm trying to create a report like following format. Any idea how can I design it?
'ID', 'Title', 'Answer' and 'Comment' have to span multiple rows which will list 'Response'.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ID Title Answer Response Comment
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1 | Q1 | B | A | aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
| | | B | aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
| | | C | aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
| | | D |
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2 | Q2 | C | A | bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb
| | | B | bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb
| | | C | bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb
| | | D |
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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May 3, 2008
I've got this data source that returns member information.. great.
I've got a function that when passed the member number and a month/
year returns days participating in the club.
I need to build a report that will output some of the columns for the
member, but then report other information for 6 months for each member
that all calulated based on days particpating for that month. Which 6
months will be dertimed by a single parameter passed to the report for
starting month/year... basically the next 6 months.
Is a matrix report a good option for this? Or should I just have the
function called 6 times in my data source? Ideally I layout the report
for one month and then *somehow* join in my data source for 6
iterations where month is 1 through 6.
Right now I'm having trouble wrapping my mind around how and where to
join the data? Especially if matrix and I have two data sources. I'm
also not sure I can call my function from cells in the matrix or if I
can even have mulitple data buckets in the matrix. I'm tempted to do
this the only way I know how, but I suspect there is a better way.
I've never built a matrix report in ssrs, any information or help is
appreciated.
Thank you!
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Aug 1, 2007
Hi every body
I have developed an reporting solution for a customer with reporting services and using report builder.
When he connect to http://localhost/reports , he see the page like
http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/583/folderhl1.jpg
But i would to custom design of my default page, and other maybe. Where i can do it ?
Thanks all
Regards
Erwan Sarcelet, France
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Jan 19, 2007
All,
I have a report for a Quote print that has 1 table with 1 group in it by Quote #. The detail level is showing the line items on the quote and a second detail line for a sub report to show any notes. If the quote has 1 line on it, I am always getting a page break after the sub report even if it doesn't display anything.
The report shows the following:
Note each of these will contain a rectangle that the text boxes are displayed in unless it is a sub-report then no rectange.
Group header 1 - Address information
Group header 1 - contains a sub report for some notes
Group header 1 - Opening paragraph
Group header 1 - Blank line
Group header 1 - contains the line headings
Detail - contains the line details
Detail - contains the sub report for line notes
Detail - blank line for spacing
Group footer 1 - hidden based on expression
Group footer 1 - hidden based on expression ** One of these 2 lines will print based on the expression
Group footer 1 - sub report for more notes
Group footer 1 - Closing paragraph
Group footer 1 - Signature area
Group footer 1 - sub report for last page of terms / scope notes. NOTE: This sub report also contains a table and the table has a page break before so that I can get these on another page.
So, after # 8 above there is a page break. The remaining footers before # 14 easily fit on the rest of the page. The group 1 also has a page break at the end so it breaks between quotes. I have tried to insert a page break on the rectangle for # 13 and remove the page break on the sub report in # 14 but although everything fits it doesn't page break before the sub report.
It looks like it always page breaks after the last page in the sub report.
Any ideas on how to get around this?
Thanks in advance,
Sherry
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May 12, 2008
To maximize the number of names and phone numbers we can fit on a page, we'd like to have three or four columns of LastName, FirstName, Number on each page. The first column starts with the A's and goes down until the bottom of the page then goes back up to the top of the page in the second column. When the maximum number of columns (probably 3 or 4) is reached for one page, it starts again in the first column of the second page.
This is what we're looking for...
.style1
{width:83px;}
.style2
{width:77px;}
.style3
{width:65px;}
.style5
{width:82px;}
.style6
{width:79px;}
.style7
{width:62px;}
.style9
{width:71px;}
.style10
{width:70px;}
.style11
{width:113px;}
.style12
{width:129px;}
.style13
{width:70px;font-weight:bold;}
.style14
{width:71px;font-weight:bold;}
.style15
{width:129px;font-weight:bold;}
.style16
{width:62px;font-weight:bold;}
.style17
{width:79px;font-weight:bold;}
.style18
{width:82px;font-weight:bold;}
.style19
{width:113px;font-weight:bold;}
.style20
{width:65px;font-weight:bold;}
.style21
{width:77px;font-weight:bold;}
.style22
{width:83px;font-weight:bold;}
Page 1
LastName
FirstName
Number
LastName
FirstName
Number
LastName
FirstName
Number
Anderson
Fred
1234
Dalton
Mike
4567
Gladden
Tony
7890
Bailey
George
2345
Earl
Beth
5678
Hanks
Marideth
8901
Cox
Natalie
3456
Flake
Spencer
6789
Ingersol
Grace
9012
Page 2
LastName
FirstName
Number
LastName
FirstName
Number
LastName
FirstName
Number
Jackson
Frank
9234
Morrison
Ty
9567
Peters
Hank
9890
Klark
Missy
9345
Nickels
Al
9678
Quinn
Andy
9901
Little
Blake
9456
Oxnard
Will
9789
Rand
Phil
9112
Of course, it will take more rows of data to fill up a page, but this shows the basic idea of what we're trying to accomplish.
Does anyone know how to do this?
Thanks.
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Mar 5, 2008
Does anyone else have problems with the speed of the design environment for SSRS reports? We are using visual studio to create and manage hundreds of production reports (Oil and Gas).
It literally takes 5 seconds for the design environment to react to each change in the report layout. For instance, a common change is to reposition a text box, change the length, text, font size, font weight etc...:
Grab the text box - 5 seconds until designer responds - then reposition
Grab the edge to change the length - ditto
change text - 5 seconds for designer to "save" the change and allow next action....
blah - blah - blah....
So, performing the simple change above takes at least 30 seconds in addition to whatever time it took to edit the text box.
I've talked to the other developers using SSRS here and they all report that's "just the way it is".
Is this normal or is there an environment issue/setting we are overlooking.
Thanks, Mike
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Apr 24, 2015
On our project we export SSRS reports to Excel. Report Definition Language (RDL) enables you to use several measurement units (for example, inches, pixels, centimeters, and points) to specify position and size values. However, Excel uses only points. Therefore, the SSRS Excel rendering extension converts the height and width of the table, the heights of the rows, and the widths of the columns to points.
This process may include rounding some values. In this situation, the table height or width and the sum of the row heights or column widths are different. To compensate for the difference, the SSRS Excel rendering extension inserts a small row or column to the workbook.
To prevent that ‘hidden’ row or column, we configure the table height and width to a value specified in "pt" (points) rather than "cm". 1 cm is about 28 points. Is it possible to configure SSRS to use points by default while designing a report?
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Jan 30, 2007
I have a report requirement, i am new to reports.
I want to have two lines of column headers.( with 7 columns in parent columns header)
and 7 columns in child column header.
The first column header will show a parent record.
And after the parent record i want to show the next child related horizontal column headers and will show all child record related to the above parent record.
its a one to many: 1 parent record and below all child records for that parent record.
can i use subreports controls to show all child records of the parent.
Thank you very much for the information.
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Mar 6, 2008
How can i write diffrent Queries in Data set using If...Else Conditions at the time of report Design.
Regards.
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May 2, 2008
Hi,
I have a report in which a developper has put a matrix which has 4 MatrixRows.
I want to delete 2 of them.
When I righlt click a row and click Delete there is message about rows groups and columns groups and the row is still there.
When I right click the matrix and go to properties / group, i see Row group = [Static group] and I cannot modify it.
How can I delete a MatrixRow ?
a+, =)
-=Clement=-
Configuration :
SQL Server 2005
edit :
I found the solution : click on the cell in the 2nd column, not in the first, then right click and delete.
I would suggest Microsoft IT s to put less humor in their softs (you click delete in the wrong place, you get a weird message instead of a 'try another cell' )
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Nov 6, 2015
I have a report that I need to develop in landscape format. Also I need it to be landscape when converting to PDF and taking printouts. let me know the exact height and width measurements in inches for the report and report body?
I need the margin to be 0.5 inch.
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Nov 13, 2007
When I am working on an Integrations Services project and I open a Reporting Services file, it displays it in the Code view. Is there a way to display it in the Design view? Or do I have to close the project and open up a Reporting Services project?
Fred
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Mar 19, 2007
Hi,
I'm developing a Custom Report Item and would like to fill my properties dialog in design mode with real data. I have the name of the data source and the command text for the corresponding report dataset, read from the report design.
Is it possible to create an ado.net dataset so that I can display and use real data in my properties dialog box? First problem I have is to get the connection string from the data source string. I found no docs for that, especially the Microsoft.ReportingServices.DataExtensions.ReportDataSource class is not documented. Am I on the right way with that?
Thomas
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May 18, 2012
I have a very frustrating problem. But given that this is a development forum, I'll keep that for my 'Envelope Lickers Rehab' and instead talk about an issue I'm having.
I have a very large query (line-wise) that executes in less than a minute when run from the SQL Management Studio as well as via Excel Services.
It is a stored procedure with one parameter. When I try to prime the designer with this query it gives me the following message:
"Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to completion of the operation or the server is not responding.
The statement has been terminated."
I've considered cracking open the xml source and manually creating the fields, but I'd rather not go there.
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Is Format Painter is available in SQL Server Management Studio Report Design?If not, any other way can we copy format?
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How do I design reports so they look good when viewed online?
Is there anyway for it to render nicely on a particular resolution or screen? Never done any web dev, so not sure if I am missing something.
At the moment I am just designing the report so it looks right on my box.
However by trying to maximise the space when viewed online, it means exporting to pdf ends up being a disaster.
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Nov 8, 2007
Hi
Does any body know that creating free form rports using Report Builder is possible?
Free-form report - in the sense - that user should be able to drag the fields from the leftside fields pane and drop on body as we do in report designer using BI studio.
I could not figure out a way to do so. Is this a limitation?
Thanks
Raj Yennam
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Hello,
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Disque 1&2 ( Raid 1)
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