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.
I am running an application with an SQL database and it works fine. My question is about a customer changing his information. We will need to be able to produce copies of old orders/invoices even after that company's info has changed (e.g. he moved or changed the company's name).
Assuming he changes his company's name, for example, do I,
1. Enter him as a "new" company? This allows me to keep the old info in the database if I query the "old" name but does not provide any portability of "old" information forward to the "new" company like payment patterns, past orders, etc. since he is "new" and has no past.
2. Or do I change the record of the"old" company to reflect the "new" name? Here I can keep the "old" past under the "new" name but I now cannot retrieve an old document that reflects the "old" name.
3. Or, the third alternative is to export to alternative storage all the files of the "old" company and go to number 2 above?
I thought about copying the "old past" into a "new" customer but then I'd have double sales, receipts, etc and I just can't see an end to that debacle.
None of these sound like fun but I'm sure I'll soon have to do one of these. I can't be the first one to ask this and I'm sure there is someone out there who is smarter than me/has a more elegant solution. Any suggestions?
I also posted this to Small Business Development forum but thought the SQL guys might have another idea.
I am not sure this is the right section to post this in, but ModelRight (www.modelright.com) is releasing a new version of its database design tool that supports SQS 2005/2008. I think the tool provides many advantages over the existing tools (deep SQS support, excellent UI, easy to use, etc).
Currently ModelRight is looking for SQS beta testers. If you want to participate just please go to the website and download the latest version.
I have fairly simple table queries, and only a few dicey things, which I can handle in access. Is their a design tool for sql as easy and convenient as access?
Can someone suggest a good beginner's book on sql server 2005?
I have a report which works fine with visual studio but when i uploaded the same into report server and tries to access it through IE or chrome or anything its dam slow.
I am a system analyst and trying to do a report tools evaluation (crystal report, SSRS) to decide which report tools are more convenience easy to use.
But i don't have much knowledge about SSRS, so really appreciate for those who provides there professional advise..
Q1) How to install this report tool? Is it come with the SQL Server installation? Q2) I try to install the SQL Server Express 2005, but cannot work properly as connection to server is failed. (Should i install the full sql server? ) Q3) Any useful information or links?
Hi, I'm using one report tool by 'AriaCom' and have got such problems with FREE SQL in that tool. Pls advise!
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I have finished a change request from our client. I need to update clients' database with the one in developments.Here is the changes i made to database:Added/Changed some tablesAdded/Changed some stored proceduresAdded data to some dictionary tableThe data in clients' current database MUST be kept. So how can I merge the changed information to clients' database?
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
I have a project with SQL sever reports in it. During a test upon returning to the VS 2013 Professional interface, the tool box area still had the previous information displayed and never returned to what should be there for the report design tools.I restarted VS, and the toolbox no longer looked like it did before. Specifically, the datatable tool among others was missing. I was unable to "refresh" the datatable after making changes to it.
I opened other Reports in design mode, and the tools did not show up for those either.The Report Items in the toolbox does contain things like Pointer, Text Box, Line and so forth.
As I sit here waiting for a test run of the report to complete, I'm forced to wonder why it's taking over 10 minutes... so far.
The query itself, when run through Management Studio takes about 50 seconds, so why would it take over 10 minutes to generate the report? It's the only query being run, and it's not doing anything especially tricky with the data. It's all actually being processed in the query, returning some counts and displaying them in a simple list.
Any thoughts?
EDIT: I should mention that the query itself isn't very simple, so I can understand the query itself being slow... just not the report being 10 times slower than the query in management studio.
I have developed several reports with selectable parameters. When the report is first requested three stored procedures are triggered and return the parameters (+2 min), following parameters being returned the default report is returned (+3 min), this time is unacceptable. Is there anything I can do to speed up the report generation? Any help here is greatly appreciated.
Hi, In a .net application there is a link that brings up a SSRS report. I have noticed that if it is the first time this report is requested i.e. Application has just been opened and the report button is clicked, then it takes a while to get this report to appear on the screen. But if this report is requested again (i.e. for the second time or more) then it only takes a few moments for the report to appear on the screen. So it seems that only the first time the report is requested it takes a longer time to get this report. Is there a way to reduce this initial load of the report? Thanks
I continue to see this similar post all over the place, but no resolutions.
We have SSRS installed and operational in production. There are reports that get accessed from either an aspx page or from the built in IIS site for SSRS.
First time access is the performance problem. Here are two scenarios:
1) from your browser, pull up the front page to SSRS: http://myserver/reports. This simple operation will take about 2 minutes to come up. Drill to the report in question and it runs fairly well first time through. Throw a different query at it and it runs faster. If you wait a while (maybe 15 minutes +) the whole thing will spin back down and take 2 minutes to come up again. If you exit the website and come back immediately, everything still stays quick.
2) from an aspx page, same thing... if the service is spun down, the end user will typically get tired of waiting or timeout. Once everything is spun up, the process runs fine.
We setup another report that just does some simple statistics and added in a timed subscription for every 15 minutes hoping it would keep the service up and running.... no joy. Still the same.
Also adjusted the app pool to about every option to see if we could keep it running, but no joy.
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So -- any ideas? Forget about running a report.... just think about pulling the website up. 2 minutes to get it to display in the browser the first time...
Hi all, I've been building a set of traffic based reports on our website and I've run into a strange problem.
The reports are pretty basic, and up till now I've been really impressed with RS overall.
Recently I've added a StartDate and EndDate and since then the performance has gone from ~10 secs to ~10 minutes.
I've taken a really simple query from my reports. Running this query in Management Studio on the same data returns in less than a second. When its run from a test report with nothing else in it it takes ~1 minute. Even stranger when I run the same query with the same values for parameters inside of RS in the data view it takes less than 1 second. ARG!
SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT SessionID) as Occurences FROM WebAppSummary JOIN WebAppLocalizations ON WebAppSummary.ClientIp = WebAppLocalizations.ClientIp where FirstTime BETWEEN @StartDate AND @EndDate
The last line that was just added is this part: where FirstTime BETWEEN @StartDate AND @EndDate
So whats going on here? Is this a really poorly performing query that management studio is optimizing but RS isnt? Is RS messing up the databind and getting a bunch of DSs instead of just one?
Each day, the first user who launches our RS reports always gets a long wait time. Subsequent report launches are normal. Does anyone know what is going on? If yes, what is the remedy?
I've searched the forums on this issue, haven't really found the answer.
I have several nifty little sales reports which crunch a ton of data quite efficiently and render in just a few seconds in Report Manager. I've pushed as much of the data processing back to the server as possible, use a stored procedure (with parameters) in a shared datasource, don't return unneccessary data, all that. It works great.
When I first developed the reports, I continued generating my charts (which use the same data as the reports, just grouped differently) in Excel and pasting them in as images. Now I want to stop that nonsense and use the SSRS charts. I fooled around with the charting function and got a reasonable facimile of my Excel charts, two per report, which use their own separate stored procedures and the same shared datasource.
Now, reports that used to render in 5-8 seconds may take 1-5 MINUTES. Help! It's definitely the charts--taking them back out fixes the problem.
I have complete control over the datasources--would it make more sense to use non-shared sources, or to create totally separate shared sources? I saw a post that recommended "making data calls non-synchronous," but I have no idea how to do that.
I have been using the report viewer to render my reports on a webpage. All worked fine for a time and now nothing is working correctly.
I have about ~8 report viewer on one page, all in an individual IFRAME. What happen is, sometimes I'm getting an error from IE (Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage) or the report starts loading (I see the title) but where the chart should be I have an X (broken image) icon.
Sometimes when I click on the image and choose "Display Image" the image will display.
Facts
Reports loads correctly on the report manager site (the Reporting Services webpage) Once those errors starts appearing, the session seems to act funny and I can't even refresh the webpage (F5) I have the latest report viewer patch installed I have the SP2 for SQL Server 2005 installed Running Windows 2000 Server Running IIS 6 The website was developped using IIS 5, but was tested on IIS 6 for about 3 weeks and we started to have problems today. The reports are linked with Analysis Services to get the data from cubes. I'm really out of ideas right now. Maybe I should just restart the IIS server, but the thing is live and I can't do it right now. However, if I need to restart it, will the problem occurs another time? Will it become a solution to restart the server?
I already restarted Reporting Services and nothing has changed.
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 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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.
I have a report in SQL Reporting Services 2005 which calls a stored proc and the report takes a very long time to run and sometimes returns zero records. But when i run the stored proc in query analyzer it takes about 4 seconds!!
I have checked the execution log on the RS using the below sql:
Code Snippet
use ReportServer
Select * from ExecutionLog with (nolock) order by TimeStart DESC
It shows that i have a large amount of time for the dataretrieval (601309ms, about 10mins) and does not return any records most likely because of a query timeout:
The weird thing is that when i run it in query analyzer, i get about 400 records in 4 seconds !!
I dont understand what RS is doing to take up so much time like this to retrieve data.
The report is very simple - it basically returns the records straight out into a table.
The only thing I somewhat suspected was a parameter data type conflict between RS and SQL, specifically dates. I have a start and end date parameter in the report - i tried specifying this as date and string to see if it made any difference but it didn't.
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
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.
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.
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!
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?
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.
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' )
