Report Server 2005 DB Doubled In Size (dbo.ServerParametersInstance)
Apr 8, 2008
Our Report Server DB almost doubled in size over the period of a week and is causing backup issues and using too much disk space.
We have over a hundred SQL 2005 DBs running in a portal on the same server as the Report Server all connecting to SSRS and many run their own Report Builder models and custom reports.
The table dbo.ServerParametersInstance is currently 3.6gb. I'm struggling to find any help in how to manage this in terms of reducing its size or what it is even used for.
I am trying to resize a database initial log file from 500M to 2M. I€™m using€?
ALTER DATABASE <DBNAME> MODIFY FILE ( NAME = <DBLOGFILENAME, SIZE = 2 ) "
And I'm getting "MODIFY FILE failed. Specified size is less than current size." I tried going into the database properties and setting the log file to 2M, but it doesn€™t keep the changes.
SQL 6.5 - run duration 6-7 hours SQL 7.0 - run duration 12-13 hours 175+ columns with total record size=570 4.2M records with tablesize 2.5G
It's a simple 'select into...' with some embedded logic from a work table with all char fields into the actual table converting char fields into various data types (int, datetime, real, etc.) Here is a sample of the code:
SELECT LoanNum=CASE WHEN ISNUMERIC(ACCT#)=1 THEN CONVERT(int,ACCT#) ELSE NULL END, PaidToDt=CASE WHEN PAIDDT = '0001-01-01' THEN NULL WHEN ISDATE(PAIDDT)=1 AND SUBSTRING(PAIDDT,1,2) = '19' THEN CONVERT(smalldatetime,PAIDDT) WHEN ISDATE(PAIDDT)=1 AND SUBSTRING(PAIDDT,1,2) = '20' AND SUBSTRING(PAIDDT,3,2) < '79' THEN CONVERT(smalldatetime,PAIDDT) ELSE NULL END, . . . INTO db.owner.tablename FROM db.owner.wrktablename (NOLOCK)
I installed sql 2005 a while back. Then I recently found out my file system was fat32 (I don't understand why the hardware people did this...) and I had to convert to NTFS. Naturally the sql service no longer worked so I uninstalled inorder to reinstall now I can't reinstall it I keep getting this message
native_error=5039, msg=[Microsoft][SQL Native Client][SQL Server]MODIFY FILE failed. Specified size is less than current size.
I've created a database design and I'm trying to figure out if it's workable or not. I have 2 tables in particular that are sparse (20 columns, but only a few have data - about 100 bytes/row) but will grow very large - to the tune of 700 million rows.
My question is whether or not there is a problem with SQL Server 2005 having 1.5+ billion rows of data even though it will likely only take up 100 gigs or so on disk. Anyone have experience in large numbers of rows like this? We're still doing testing as far determining how slow queries will get.
HI Everyone, I understand that there is a 4GB size limitation on SQL Server Express edition. right? What I want to know is what if a database file created in SQL Express is hosted with SQL Server 2005 will the file still have the 4 GB size limitations? Thanks
I've been developing a vb app with sql server 2005 and had planned to use express as the client server so the db could be distributed with the app. After importing 21 csv text files, I realized that I have way too much data. My understanding is that sqlexpress can only work with max 4gb database.
The 21 csv files (total 925mb) brought the db size up to 1.5gb and I still have at least 250 more files to go. Obviously, I need a different approach. What are the size limitations of the non express version of sql server 2005? Any suggestions on the best approach for this type of situation?
I am getting timeout or connection closed error on report server when i try to create snapshot for a large report on my development machine.Snapshot are getting created for small reports.
I have done following changes to rsreportserver.config <Add Key="SQLCommandTimeoutSeconds" Value="1000000"/>
<Add Key="DatabaseQueryTimeout" Value="1000000"/>
and
IIS time out to some large value.
But everytime it shows timeout or connection closed forcibly.
I want to store a Zip file as a BLOB, but I get an error: "File 'C:<path of mdf file> ' appears to have been truncated by the operating system. Expected size is 2560KB but actual size is 1536KB " whenever the BLOB exceeds 1MB.
Any suggestions? How can I store larger .ZIP files to the Database? I am using MS SQL 2005 Express and the data type that I gave for the column to store Blob is "varbinary(MAX)".
I am inserting byte array in to this field. It works fine for a zip file less than 1MB but as soon as the zipped file size increases beyond 1MB, lots of error pop-up and then the database is not readable. Its says that, the data in the data base may have been corrupted...
I am trying to upgrade SQL Server Express 2005 Report Server to SQL 2005 Standard and it fails with the following error:
SQL Server Setup did not have the administrator permissions required to copy a file: C:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL ServerMSSQL.8Reporting ServicesReportServer ssrvpolicy.config. To continue, verify that the file exists, and either grant administrator permissions to the account currently running Setup or log in with an administrator account. Then run SQL Server Setup again.
After I click OK on the message, this whole path where the upgrade is bieng installed dissapears C:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL ServerMSSQL.8Reporting Services. The error is a bit missleading because the file that it is trying to copy rssrvpolicy.config does appear in that upgrade folder so I am not sure why it would try to copy a file that has already been copied.
I was able to upgrade the Database Engine instance fine but can't upgrade Reporting Services due to that error. I have verified that the account that ran the setup had the administrator permissions. Your prompt reply to my question would be greatly appreciatted.
I would like to generate a report that lists each database in both sql 2000 and 2005 instance alongwith their size. I can get the size sysfiles... perhaps i can join it with sysdatabases ?
I need to keep a section of a report the same size. I have now a table with a detail and group section. The table header must print on every page and the table footer must print on every page. The detail section can only be 16 rows. When I have more than 16 rows the report page breaks perfectly and puts the remaining rows on the next page along with repeating the header and footer. The problem is when there are fewer than 16 rows the table does not take up the full page and looks horrible. All my displayed data is in the data set. I have looked at padding the dataset with bogus rows that would show up at the end and just not display but would rather take care of this on the report end. Any ideas? Thanks, Chad
I am trying to change the Page size of the layout dynamically. Does anyone know if this is possible? If so can you point me in the right direction to find resources for this.
Hey guys,Does anyone know a way (in Enterprise Manager or thru a SQL statement)to get the number of rows and the size of each table in a database?Thks,
I am on the layout page, and click on the body, going to the body property dialogue, there is a size property there, I changed its width and height, but it is not changed at all? I mean once I save it, it is back to its orginal size? Why is that? Any advices for that?
Hope my question is clear.
Thanks a lot in advance for your help.
And I am looking forward to hearing from you shortly.
Is it possible to setup different font size when a user is browsing or printing a report?
I have a lot of data to print on a report and i need tu use a font size of 7pt which is fine for printing but when the user is looking at the report on the browser a font size of 7pt is a bit too small and the bold doesn't work.
Is there a way to dynamically make report header and footer fields change location (or size)? I have many matrix reports that grow in width and then the header and footers do not look good.
Another example is I have a line that is in the header...I would like this to grow to the width of the report, which again is not static on a matrix report.
I was working on the SSRS Report Designer and was trying to copy and paste a huge SQL query from SQL Management Studio (like I always do) to the dataset window.
This method usually works, but for this extremely long SQL query with nested SELECTs and JOINs, it seems as though the Report Designer dataset query window limits the number of characters including carriage returns I can input in it.
When I paste my SQL query from SQL Management Studio, it seems to paste only three quarters of the query, and thereafter I am not able to manually key in anything else or even make a line feed in the dataset query window.
Is there a limit to the number of characters I can key in here ? If so, is there any workarounds or configurations I can try ?
I have created a report that displays a limited number of rows and columns when called as a sub-report. If the report is called directly, all rows are returned and all columns are shown. I would like to control how large the report is (BodySize) when called as a sub-report as not all columns will be shown. This sub-report is part of a dashboard where several other sub-reports are also shown, so reducing the size is important. I hope to avoid the need to have a version of the report when called from the dashboard and also a version when called in expanded mode.
I have a Reporting Services report available in a Windows Sharepoint Services webpart. The report is too large to display in the webpart window requiring the user to use the scroll bars. Is there any way to reduce the size of the report so that fits completely within the webpart without using scroll bars?
I have a report on my report server... and it has set for multivalue parameter... but since the particular client has only one plan so they wont have the select all function... but the size of the ddl is so squished that we cannot see the Plan name at all...
So can someone pls help me as to how can i increase it..
In one of my SSRS report under body properties default size (width = 34.54712cm , height = 20.92853cm ). I've tried to reduce the size to width = 26cm ,height = 18 . once i changed. the width its going to the same orginal size again.
I was wondering if i could get some help here. Does SQL Server 2005 have the capability to produce report just like in Office Access 2003? Most of the time, i use Access a lot and now plan on using SQL Server 2005 to create databases for our clients.
I have a brand new install of sql server 2005 on brand new WINDOWS SERVER2003 with latest versions. Every thing works fine excepting I get a 404 when I connect to report server from management studio..
all work fine on local machine and with in the network behind the fire wall.
But when I try to connect to report server using management studio on the local server or remote server, I get the following error.
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TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio ------------------------------
The attempt to connect to the report server failed. Check your connection information and that the report server is a compatible version. (Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.UI.RSClient)
The request failed with HTTP status 404: Not Found. (Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.UI.RSClient)
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More techinal details
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Cannot connect to xxxxxxxxxxxx.
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The attempt to connect to the report server failed. Check your connection information and that the report server is a compatible version. (Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.UI.RSClient)
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at Microsoft.SqlServer.ReportingServices2005.RSConnection.MissingEndpointException.ThrowIfEndpointMissing(WebException e) at Microsoft.SqlServer.ReportingServices2005.RSConnection.ValidateConnection() at Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.UI.RSClient.RSClientConnection.CreateConnection(String connectionString) at Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.UI.RSClient.RSConnectionInfo.CreateConnectionObject() at Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.UI.RSClient.RSConnectionInfo.RSTypeImpl.GetConnectionObject(UIConnectionInfo ci) at Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.UI.ConnectionDlg.RSType.GetConnectionObject(UIConnectionInfo ci) at Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.UI.VSIntegration.ObjectExplorer.ObjectExplorer.ValidateConnection(UIConnectionInfo ci, IServerType server) at Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.UI.ConnectionDlg.Connector.ConnectionThreadUser()
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The request failed with HTTP status 404: Not Found. (Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.UI.RSClient)
------------------------------ Program Location:
at Microsoft.SqlServer.ReportingServices2005.RSConnection.GetSecureMethods() at Microsoft.SqlServer.ReportingServices2005.RSConnection.IsSecureMethod(String methodname) at Microsoft.SqlServer.ReportingServices2005.RSConnection.ValidateConnection()
For developing a report I'm using SQL Server 2000 with SP4 & MS Visual Studio .Net 2003. After expoting a report in excel format file, the size of the excel file is so much big that while openning the report file it seemed to be hanged the PC.
Is there any way to reduce the size of the excel in reporting services?
