Help Files / Metadata On Reports
Aug 29, 2007
I had a pervious thread on a metadata KB but didn't get a response. So I was wondering if anyone has added on a web based help file app to SSRS? Something that you could assign additional metadata to each report. Something that would be searchable.
At this point SSRS doesn't provide enough fields for metadata. I am looking to assign some thing like:
1. Owner/Requestor of report
2. Fields in report
3. Description (other than the one provided)
4. etc..
Does anyone have any ideas of a add on, utility, or software?
Thanks
fsugeiger
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Dec 1, 2006
Hello,
I have an input into a raw file destination that has IsSorted=TRUE.
Any output from a raw file source that uses that raw file will have IsSorted=FALSE.
So, a question for Microsoft. Is it a legitimate request to ask that the IsSorted and SortKey metadata be stored in a raw file? If so I shall raise it at Connect.
-Jamie
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Jun 29, 2012
I wanted to know that when I create a table using SQL Server, does the table metadata like schemaname and catalogname is stored in memory or in hard-disc. I am trying to extract schemaname and catalogname when the database is down or correctly when I have no connection string. I know about sysindexes, systables etc, but i am not able to understand whether it stores the data which is useful to me like catalogname.
sql query to extract the column names from sysindexes?
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Feb 15, 2011
I have a scenario, need to create SQL server Tables dynamically.
I Have multiple xml data file on a particular location, and want to load those XML data into sql server tables, but he metadata of each xml data files are not same.
Hence the approach is that,
1. Pick first file from that location
2. Create a table according to that xml data file metada
3. Â load data on newly created table. Â
4. Pickup the next xml data files.
5. loop through, till the XML data files are exists on that location.
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Jun 13, 2007
Hi
I got two text files with data.I got to compare two files and if there is any inconsistancy between two files I need to dispaly as a report using sql reporting services.I do not know how to do that?
Any source code or suggestion.
Thanx in advance
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Jan 30, 2015
At one of our client side a wired log shipping issues has come up.while monitoring those two server i noticed that although log-shipping report says both server are in sync, report displays information related to both backup and restore , it doesn't shows information related to copy that is when was last file copied and last file copy column is showed blank. Same is when i execute proc "sp_help_log_shipping_monitor" . I get same result ...
When i expand copy job history to analyse its what i found is although job has executed successfully , but in depth reading each steps says that no .trn file was copied .
My copy directory is at secondary server itself where .trn files are placed.And from this location itself files are begin restored.
SQL server and agent on both servers are run by same domain account ....
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Apr 23, 2008
I would like to deploy several reports to production server, Do i need to install reporting services entire software in order to run the reports or is it possible to just have runtime files installed on it to run the reports.
please help, i have almost 100 reports to be deployed on this server which is located in other country.
Thanks for the helpful information.
(i am using SQL server 2005 / reporting services 2005.)
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Nov 5, 2007
Hello SQL Server Experts, Data Analysts, and Report Writers et al:
re: Reporting Options with SQL Server
I wanted to propose an offshoot to the pryor thread:
Would anyone take a stab at comparing Access Reports, Crystal Reports,
Cognos or other options to all the Reporting Services and its components offered as part ofSQL Server, especially as to extracting data from SQL Server into a report format?
I guess this is a far as capabilites, ease of use, limitations, and especially formatting
or presentation of the end report product?
Thank you to all, and I hope this is a beneficial discussion to others.
Hal1490
Hal9000
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Mar 18, 2008
I have an already published application running several MS SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services report.
I need a way to find from either the reporting services log or the application server (IIS) logs or windows log
to know the frequency of each report being used.
Based on this info, the business needs to know which reports are being used and to what extend?
How can I acheive this?
I have already got the IIS logs and it did not give the required info.
I have looked into the Reporting Services logs but it does not provide the info either.
Any help is appreciated
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Mar 18, 2008
I have an already published application running several MS SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services report.
I need a way to find from either the reporting services log or the application server (IIS) logs or windows log
to know the frequency of each report being used.
Based on this info, the business needs to know which reports are being used and to what extend?
How can I acheive this?
I have already got the IIS logs and it did not give the required info.
I have looked into the Reporting Services logs but it does not provide the info either.
Any help is appreciated
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Jan 23, 2007
Hi does anyone know how to do the above with out going through reportserver url?
Preferably by using a cmd tool ? such rs.exe
or through the backend in the reportserver DB?
Thanks
Dave
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Feb 13, 2008
Hi Friends,
Could I migrate the reports which are developed on SQL 2000 to SQL 2005. If Yes then How ...
Could anyone explain me. How it works.
Thanks
sqlferns
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Mar 27, 2008
My issue is with converting multi-value parameters:
In Crystal Reports, you can set a parameter to accept multiple vales (Discrete, Range or Discrete and Range).
As an example:
I have a database table with a column called ID.
I can create a parameter called param_id and set the options of the parameter to "Allow multiple range values".
With this setup, I can limit the result set of the report by comparing the param_id parameter to the ID column in the database. Because param_id is a multi-value range parameter, I can pass it the following data:
1 - 50
60 - 80
150 - 127
This will only return results within those ranges.
Does anyone know if SSRS provides this kind of functionality?
Thanks,
Patrick Conway
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Aug 7, 2007
Is there a way to copy reports from other users "My reports" folder? I am logging onto the management studio reporting services using an administrative account and I am able to view the reports from all users' "My Reports" folder. But I am not able to export them as an rdl file. I am able to export reports from other common folders, but not from the "My Reports" folder.
The reason I need to do this is some of the users have created some reports in one environment and the reports are available in their respective "My Reports" folder. I need to move these reports to their corresponding "My Reports" folder in another environment.
Is there a way to do this?
Thanks for your help.
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Jul 20, 2005
What is "MetaData" in "Data Transormation service" and what is"MetaData services" ?and in which field I can use them?Thanks
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Aug 22, 2001
Hi All!
I recently added a column to an existing table with a getdate default. When doing a query from that server everything works fine. When a query is ran from a remote server I get an SQLOLEDB error message saying 'inconsistant metadata'. I've tried dropping the remote server and reconnecting but that didn't seem to resolve the problem. Can anyone tell me how to resolve this error. I believe the error number is 7353.
Any suggestions appreciated!
Thanks Jeff!
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Jul 29, 2005
Hi,Is it possible to get metadata (i.e. descriptions of tables etc.) insql-server? In Oracle you can retrieve this information with tables likeall_objects, user_tables, user_views etc. For example, this query selectsthe owner of the table 'ret_ods_test' (in Oracle!):select ownerfrom all_objectswhere object_name = 'ret_ods_test'What's the equivalent in sql server?Thanks a lot.
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Mar 18, 2007
hi,
Is there a way to find out which user defined procs/child packages etc are been called in SSIS packages using some metadata. The idea is to have a document which lists the number of packages called, whats sprocs and child packages are executed by those pkgs..
I have checked the SSIS metadata whitepaper but that is too generic.
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May 15, 2006
What do you do to address this:
[OLE DB Source [1]] Warning: The external metadata column collection is out of synchronization with the data source columns. The column "objectName1" needs to be updated in the external metadata column collection.
A corollary question: what does right-clicking a package in Solution Explorer and clicking "Reload with Upgrade" do?
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Feb 26, 2008
I'm working on capturing metadata from my SSIS packages. I have found multiple postings and a white paper that
reference a download toolkit for just this purpose. The link is dead and a search renders no results - can anyone help?
SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence Metadata Whitepaper
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Feb 26, 2007
-We are using SSIS packages for various kind of data load from excel source.
-If there are any change in the data type or format of excel, the package cries for the Metadata mismatch.
-During design time if you accept the metadata changes, all things work fine.
But in our case we have deployed the packages on Production Server, now the excel file format/data has changed. The packages are expecting a different metadata so they are not working at all.
Do you have any suggestions for the above problem?
Thanks, Vijay.
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Apr 4, 2008
i am using icolumnsrowset interface to get some metadata about the columns in a rowset, but i never got unique and primary key columns in the columnsrowset, they always return null, when using sqlcedataadapter i simply add addwithkey option to the adapter to determine it, but i dont know how to do it by using ole db interfaces, i have tried to set DBCOLUMN_KEYCOLUMN flag to true on ccommand<cynamicaccessor, crowset> but it seems it rejects it, generating an unknown error, error object says almost nothing except that 'errors occured[,,,,,]' text
can someone tell me, how can i retrieve columnsrowset with that unique and primary key sections filled?
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Apr 5, 2006
Hello, i would like to know if it's possible to generate automatically a word document or an excel document that will contain all the metadata definition, for example containing the source columns names, their datatype, and the destination with their datatypes, so that it would easy to create a data dictionnary .
Thank you in advance.
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Nov 9, 2007
Hello everybody,
It's now quite some time that one particular behaviour of SSIS is really frustrating me and I would like to know if I'm the only one experiencing this problem or if other people have the same problem.
The issue I'm talking about is SSIS 'dependency on what is written in the XML files describing the flows.
Particularly with the Data Types of columns.
I'm explaining myself: Imagine your are developping a flow containing several numeric(18,0) columns...
During the flow you have to perform a lookup on an Integer Field.... Of course this operation is not allowed as a numeric is not mappable with an Integer... (This is, in my opinion, a nonsense as an implicit conversion has to be possible).
as a result of this behaviour, I decide to change the datatype (numeric) from my source query to an integer and use it in the Lookup which of course succeeds but now I have a second problem: each lookup in my flow has an error handling branch which I'm joining back using a Union transform. and there we have the second irritation: the Union transform doesn't replicate the Data Type changes that occured upwards in the flow... worse: it even has no interface to let you modify the data types like the advanced editor of some transforms or data sources. (I've just lost a complete dataflow while trying to modify it manually in the xml file directly :-( for those who are considering modifying directly the XML, don't!! You are asking for trouble and a lot of frustration when you'll switch back to the designer to see the effects )
My question is now: Am I misusing SSIS?? Is there somewhere an option to activate in order to get this behaviour fixed??
Has anyone else experienced this problem?? How are you solving this??
Are there any plans in the future to loose this dependency on the datatypes or at least add some implicit conversions??
Thanks in advance for your replies, suggestions,questions and other thaughts about this subject :-)
Alain
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Feb 12, 2008
Hello-
I have a question regarding my metadata information. I finally setup my fixed width file which took some time. Is there a way that I can backup my metadata so I wont have to recreate these setting again. I'm thinking the format of the file is stored in the metadata so if I have a user running the SSIS package from the Business Intell Studio they wont reset all of my columns. Is there a file I can restore or backup if this should happen
Shanon
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Sep 26, 2007
Hi all of you,
I'm focused on writing a SSIS metadata application. I'm trying to get all the metadata for all the DTSX packages from a concrete server.
I'm loading successfully tasks as Execute Sql Task, ForEach task and so on but how could I do the same for
Data Flow Task and its components. ?¿¿
For a Data Flow I don't know how to begin...
If TypeOf tmpTaskHost.InnerObject Is ????????????????? Then
My central code is the following:
sServer = "TEST1"
pkgIn = app.GetPackageInfos(carpetaraiz, sServer, Nothing, Nothing)
'''''''''''''''Para cada carpeta creada a partir de MSDB
For Each pkgCarpeta In pkgIn
If pkgIn.Item(y).PackageDataSize <= 0 Then
pkgCarpetaSSIS = app.GetPackageInfos(pkgCarpeta.Name, sServer, Nothing, Nothing)
Else
pkgCarpetaSSIS = app.GetPackageInfos(carpetaraiz, sServer, Nothing, Nothing)
End If
If pkgCarpetaSSIS.Count >= 1 Then
While i < pkgCarpetaSSIS.Count
'cargar en memoria el SSIS en el objeto PAQUETE
pkg = app.LoadFromSqlServer(pkgCarpetaSSIS.Item(i).Folder & "" & pkgCarpetaSSIS.Item(i).Name, _
sServer, Nothing, Nothing, Nothing)
Dim task As Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Tasks.ExecuteSQLTask.ExecuteSQLTask
Dim task2 As Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Runtime.ForEachLoop
Dim exe As Executable
Dim tmpTaskLoop As ForEachLoop = CType(exe, ForEachLoop)
Dim tmpTaskHost As TaskHost = CType(exe, TaskHost)
For Each exe In pkg.Executables
Select Case exe.ToString
Case "Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Runtime.ForEachLoop"
tmpTaskLoop = CType(exe, ForEachLoop)
Case "Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Runtime.TaskHost"
tmpTaskHost = CType(exe, TaskHost)
End Select
issue raises here.
If TypeOf tmpTaskHost.InnerObject Is ExecuteSQLTask.ExecuteSQLTask Then
n1 = tmpTaskHost.Properties.Item(33).GetValue(tmpTaskHost)
For y = 0 To 42
Console.WriteLine(tmpTaskHost.Properties.Item(y).Name)
Next
End If
Next
'contador de paquetes
i += 1
End While
y += 1
End If
Next
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Thanks a lot for ideas and thoughts!!!!
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May 11, 2007
As title, such as the PK, data type of each column, etc.
Thanks,
Ricky.
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Feb 25, 2008
Hi,
I'm running the following query in SQL Server 2005:
select name from master..syslogins;
It is being executed from within a stored procedure.
For user 'sa' - I get the complete list of users.
For a user (say 'user1') with NO sysadmin privilege - I get only two names: 'sa' and 'user1'
Is there a way for me to retrieve the complete list of users even for 'user1' without making any changes to his profile (or making very MINIMAL changes to profile)?
I don't want to give sysadmin profile to this user.
I know 'GRANT VIEW ANY DEFINITION TO public' works, but don't want to do that either.
-Anshul
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Jun 26, 2007
I wanted to see if anyone has explored posting a Report KB based on metadata in the RS portal? If so, have you found a way to post the information on the RS portal?
I really am looking to add additional properties to a report. Other than author and description. I would like to add 2 to 3 more fields that would feed over to the catelog table on the report server. Then write a few reports that will allow for definitions, metadata, and links to the reports.
Does anyone have any ideas for something like this?
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Dec 28, 2006
hi, I try to post a new question about metadata refresh...even if i see other thread that work on a similar problem.
I have a ssis package that import an xml huge file (500 mb); These are the main step:
1) generate a XSD file against xml using xsd.exe utility
2) using xml task, make a diff between the old xsd and the new
3) if there are no difference, I start the data flow task that import xml in sql server; otherwise I stop all the task, edit the data flow task, change the xsd reference in advanced editor and then make many "double clik / OK" on every single flow....
The underling idea is that xml file change because some columns are added but these columns are not interesting for my elaboration, so i can ignore this new column and work without mapping it.
What I'm looking for is a way for make, via SSIS, the "double clik / OK" steps....in other words, to update the metadata.
Could anybody suggest me a way? it's a sort of macro, or keyboard recorder...I'm trying to study xml package configuration; is this a good way ?
another way is to give to the end user the task to update metadata; for making this I need to open the package editor (visual studio..:!) in a more confortable environment....For example, is possible to edit the ssis package in ms access? probably i know the answer...
please, help me!
thank tou in advance
alessandro
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Apr 20, 2000
I'm trying to create a Data Dictionary view from system table info like tablename, fieldname, datatype etc. I can find all that I need except for the "description" field which is displayed in Enterprise Manager/ Repository metadata pane.
How can I locate this field so I can reference it in a view? Isn't it stored in a system table? Master, model? Where is it?
Thank in advance,
Phil
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Jun 14, 2006
Hey there,Im wondering if there is a way to determine which views in my database use the "order by" statement. The reason I need this is because we need to migrate over to MS SQL 2005 where the order by statements are ignored within the views themselves. Now(in mssql 2005) you need to explicityly state the order by now when calling a view ie. select * from [viewname] order by column x, y desc, z instead of ie. select * from [viewname] where the view already had the applicable sorting done within the view.If those order by statements are ignored, some production software which rely on the ordered data will corrupt.Please let me know if there's a way to query the actual database and determine which views have 'order by' statements in them.thx
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Mar 15, 2008
Did some searching and didn't seem to find what I'm looking for. I'm pretty new to SQL Server (most of my experience is on DB2 for z/OS).I'm building some new tables, and want to find a way to add comments to the metadata for the column. In DB2 the syntax is:COMMENT ON COLUMN TB_CREATOR.TB_NAME.COLUMN_NAME IS 'comments here';ORCOMMENT ON TB_CREATOR.TB_NAME (COLUMN1 IS ' comment here',COLUMN2 IS ' comment here', );Is there anything like this in SQL Server?Thanks!
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