I've got a complex report with many subreports that is running on a reporting services 2005 machine with sp2 installed. The report was working well, producing a 2800 page report in under 10 minutes. I made a change to an expression in a table's column header and one change to the detail and the report stopped working. It would just hang for hours with no messages in the logs.
I tried to simplify what the report server had to do by removing the sum's to the database side's stored proc but that didn't work. I finally managed to get the report to work by removing a totals section to a subreport. I've also had the same hanging condition occur when I merged some columns in the table. I also found a workaround for this problem.
Is anyone else finding problems like this? They don't seem to be code related.
Is there a limit to how complex a report can be in reporting services or the PDF rendering part of the process?
I've got a SQL Reporting Server 2000 SP2 report that takes 3 parameters. FromDT, ToDT, and LocationCD. The first two parameters are free form text fields that expect a date. The last one is a drop down box. For some reason, when I'm viewing the report through the standard reports folder on the report server I have to click the "View Report" button two times to get the report to render. Clicking it just once, doesn't seem to do anything. The report is a line graph.
There are default values in the FromDT and ToDT parameter fields.
Anyone have any ideas what would be causing the need for the second click?
Hello All, I have a report which throwing this error:
Cannot read the next data row for the data set ALERTSBYSERVERS. (rsErrorReadingNextDataRow) Get Online Help Arithmetic overflow error converting expression to data type datetime
This report can be viewed on the Visual Studio, but is not rendering it on the Reporting console. Any ideas??
I'm encounter lately some weird behaviour of SSRS in BIDS as well as after deploying on Reporting Server. I'm running basic classical SQL SSRS Reports with Oracle DB connection. My reports have header and footer pagination and well defined report layer configuration. All the reports are simple based on one table and some basic parameters passed to query.
In query builder from BIDS from data tab, the query is running fine without any other execution delays. Also the query is runnign fine in PL/Dev environment. When I switch in "Preview" mode the report hangs in execution and just showing "Report is being generated" without any resuts. After a while is generating an execution error (after 20 min).
The behaviour is the same after deployment on Report Server . I now...here it comes...the problem is intermitent...some times the report is working...but most of the times it hangs on execution. I checked the report from top to bottom and nothing's wrong from design perspective.
On other reports I don't have this problem and I don't understand where to start to investigate.
Can anybody tell me if it's possible to set a report to render directly to PDF please. I've found stuff on how to do it via a url but that's not how we want to do it.
I seem to be unable to pass parameters from a VB .Net application to Reporting Services.
Before I added the parameters to the query, I got all the rows back. So I know the application is basically working. Now that I have added the parameters, I get nothing.
I thought the SetExecutionParameters function would help, but my syntax is wrong and it fails.
I would appreciate any hint as to what step I am missing.
Report setup:
Parameters
Name Value @Report =Parameters!Report.Value @Corp =Parameters!Corp.Value @Dept =Parameters!Dept.Value
Query conditions
WHERE Report = 'BudgetVarianceSummary' AND PeriodEnd = CONVERT(DateTime,CONVERT(char,GETDATE()- DATEPART(day,GETDATE()),112)) AND Report = @Report AND Corp = @Corp AND Dept = @Dept
VB Code snippet:
Dim reportPath As String = "/FinancialReports/BudgetVarianceSummary" Dim format As String = "PDF"
' Prepare report parameter. Dim parameters(3) As ParameterValue parameters(0) = New ParameterValue() parameters(0).Name = "Report" parameters(0).Value = "BudgetVarianceSummary" parameters(1) = New ParameterValue() parameters(1).Name = "Corp" parameters(1).Value = "10" parameters(2) = New ParameterValue() parameters(2).Name = "Dept" parameters(2).Value = "7255"
Dim execInfo As New ExecutionInfo Dim execHeader As New ExecutionHeader() Dim SessionId As String Dim extension As String = ""
I am trying to redo an app that I built to gen reoprts from the command line in a specified format using RS 2000 to use RS 2005. However, I am having a problem using rs.exe to render a report. It looks like the rs.Render method no longer exists. It also looks like you can no longer get to these methods from the rs.exe environment.
Is it still possible to render reports using rs.exe? If so, can somebody please provide an example?
We have written a C# program in which we want to execute a SQL Report and return the report as a PDF
When we execute our code we get a message that System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException: The item '/production/Sudhir' cannot be found. ---> What Is syntax for ReportExecutionService.render(string report) How do we define the string report?
ReportService.ReportingService rs = new ReportService.ReportingService();
result = rs.Render("/production/Sudhir", "PDF", null, null, null, null, null, out encoding, out mimetype, out parametersUsed, out warnings, out streamids);
I have 2 reports that report on baiscally the same thing, just group differently.
Report 1 groups summary phone call stats by Department, Day, and Hour - which are all drop down options. This means that the department summary stats are shown when the reports are rendered and can be expanded to see daily stats ... the daily stats can then be expanded to see the hourly stats.
Kinda Like: ------------------------- -Department 1 -10/1/2007 12:00 AM 1:00 AM +10/2/2007
+Department 2 -------------------------
Report 2 shows the same summary stats by department and extension - which is also a drop down option. This means that the department summary stats are shown when the reports are rendered and can be expanded to see summary stats for each extension.
The queries for these reports run from the Management Studio in about 10 seconds each with the Report 1 query returning about 800 rows for the month of October 2007 and the Report 2 query returning about 30 rows for the same date range.
When the reports are rendered, Report 1 (with 800 rows) is rendered in about 20 seconds, while Report 2 (with only 30 rows) takes about 5 minutes to render.
The reports themselves are very similar, with the only difference being the grouping. It is weird that the report that returns the samller Dataset is actually taking longer to render.
One thing I did try was running the queries from the Data tab of the .rdl files (in visual studio) and the query for Report 2 took about 4 minutes to return data, while (as I mentioned above) it ran in about 10 seconds in Management Studio.
I want to display a varbinary field in the reports. the field contains value "<B> example </B>. When viewed in report viewer, it displays the value as such.
I know I can display the time that the report was generated, but can I display how LONG it took for the report to complete?
From when the first query was executed to the time all the data was returned and/or the time it took for the report to be rendered back to the end user?
I am trying to export a report into a format whiich I will then allow the user to make some final editions to prior to printing. Apparently LocalReport>Render does not support word format, however is supports others, what is the best format for me to export a report out into in order to then allow the user to edit it prior to printing, Ideally I would have just liked to lauch ms word and allow the user to edit the report if disired prior ro printing, but if I first export to .mhtml it seems to mess the column widths of the report up when opened in word..
We have a solution where we from a Windows application (using the report viewer control SP1) display some reports. Some of the reports uses a custom report item to display some graphics. This works fine on a lot of different installations, but now (for some reason) we have a problem at one customer.
We get strange GDI and transport errors when rendering these reports:
"Unable to read data from the transport connection: The connection was closed."
or
"Remote GDI stream version: 10.0.1. Expected version 10.0.1. Offset and length were out of bounds for the array or count is greater than the number of elements from the index to the end of the source collection."
These report work fine when you run them in the browser, but they never work in the report viewer control...
Hi I wonder if it is possible to create a dataset in code and then feed it to a Reporting Svcs (RS) report and have it rendered on the data from this dataset. My collegues does this with Crystal and it would break my heart if I cant do this with (RS)... I have tried to find a solution but so far, no luck. Anyone have any ideas?
I have set up a test subscription that sends an email that includes both the report and the url link to the report. However, the report does not render when user clicks on url link in subscription email. The parameter toolbar sorta appears at top of page but buttons are not showing correcty. I saw similiar issue posted in another forum but no one had resolved yet. We all noticed that the subscription email uses /reportserver folder instead of /Reports folder.
The report does appear fine in the email so I believe the problem is the URL.
I am wondering if anyone knows how to change the sheet names in Excel when exporting a report from Reporting Services 2005. In other words, I have a report with approximately 5 page breaks built in. When I render the report to Excel, it creates the 5 sheets as I expect, but it names them "Sheet1", "Sheet2", "Sheet3" etc... Is there a way to specify the name of the sheets? I am currently using a different table in my report for each sheet, but I am open to structuring this differently if needed.
I have an application wherein I need to generate a single report(possibly in PDF format) which contains more than one report. Iam using SSRS 2005. In my application Iam using report server url to render reports. The below is URL for rendering single report.
I have searched many forums and found some cases of people also reporting slower rendering in RS than in Management Studio / Query Analyzer. However, none of the other solution suggestions seem to make a difference for me.
I'm a VS/VB developer and have got multiple reports built -- all using stored procedures on the backend -- that all take many times longer to run than if executed via Management Studio (SSMS). My simplest proc takes a couple of parameters (no defaults included) and does a simple select against one table with a few joins. Nothing complicated. It runs in 8 secs for 6867 rows via SSMS. Through RS (running locally through Visual Studio 2005 at this point) it takes around 25-28 secs. Yet, when I'm in the report on the DATA tab (not the PREVIEW tab) the run takes the expected 8 secs ?!?!
All reports are behaving this way.
I am not using cursors. I have no default values on parameters. I have added the "WITH RECOMPILE" to the proc statement. I have "SET NOCOUNT ON" as the first line of the proc. I hate to say this, but I even connected the proc to Crystal Reports to see how it behaved. It ran in the expected 8 secs.
I've seen some mention by someone that perhaps this is a known issue of RS that it reads the proc twice. Any truth to this?
Also a couple posts have traced and demonstrated that the report is generating significantly more data "reads" via RS than through SSMS.
We're a shop that is considering a switch from Crystal to RS, but we do everything through stored procedures. I need to clear up this issue before I can go forward recommending a switch. I'm including a copy of a typical proc below for review... What am I missing? What's the deal here with RS?
IF OBJECT_ID('dbo.rpt_InactiveAccounts') IS NOT NULL
DROP PROCEDURE dbo.rpt_InactiveAccounts
GO
CREATE PROCEDURE dbo.rpt_InactiveAccounts
(@pRunDate datetime
,@pSalesperson varchar(5000)
,@pIncludeOpen char(1)
)
WITH RECOMPILE
AS
SET NOCOUNT ON
SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL READ UNCOMMITTED
-- CREATE/SETUP TEMP TABLE FOR USE IN PARSING MULTI-VALUED STRING INPUTS
DECLARE @NumberPivot TABLE (NumberID INT PRIMARY KEY)
DECLARE @intLoopCounter INT
SELECT @intLoopCounter =0
WHILE @intLoopCounter <=4999 BEGIN
INSERT INTO @NumberPivot
VALUES (@intLoopCounter)
SELECT @intLoopCounter = @intLoopCounter +1
END
-- CREATE TEMP TABLES TO HOLD PARSED VALUES FROM MULTI-VALUE STRING INPUT PARAMETERS
DECLARE @SalespersonTable TABLE
(tmpSalesperson varchar(30))
-- PARSE OUT @pSALESPERSON PARAMETER AND STORE VALUES IN TEMP TABLE
Is there a way to programmatically save a RS results into Excel format using the render method ?
I had read about that capability but I can't seem to find any sample code on how to do it. Is this a parameter that you have to set in the render method ?
Currently, I am using the SSRS 2005 and try to toggle the report columns similar to Excel's column grouping function. Users can expand "+" / collapse "-" the columns in the render excel report. It works fine when I excute the tabular report in the web yet the toggle function is missing when I render the report to an Excel report. I am not sure the toggle function will only work for the row items or both as the excel report can keep the toggle function for the row items. Please help.
I get the following error when generating a report. I use the "render" method in an asp.net page. I have also seen Timeout errors, which is the second error listed below.
Configuration db-SQL Server 2000 on clustered windows 2003 server SP1, 5.5 GB RAM SSRS 2005 and IIS 6.0 on 2nd windows 2003 server SP1, 3.75 GB RAM generating SSRS Report using asp.net Error is on large amounts of data, main source table has 11.2 Million records. The stored procedure returns 507,387 rows in approx. 25 minutes. No problem with smaller amounts of data using the same source of 11.2 million records, but returning much less.
Error 1: (from try/catch on render method) System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException: An error has occurred during report processing. ---> An error has occurred during report processing. ---> An error has occurred during report processing. ---> The Group expression used in grouping €˜territory€™ references a data set field which contains an error: System.InvalidOperationException: Invalid attempt to MetaData when reader is closed. at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlDataReader.get_MetaData() at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlDataReader.GetValue(Int32 i) at Microsoft.ReportingServices.DataExtensions.DataReaderWrapper.GetValue(Int32 fieldIndex) at Microsoft.ReportingServices.DataExtensions.MappingDataReader.GetFieldValue(Int32 aliasIndex) at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.ReadResponse(SoapClientMessage message, WebResponse response, Stream responseStream, Boolean asyncCall) at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.Invoke(String methodName, Object[] parameters) at rptsvc.ReportingService.Render(String Report, String Format, String HistoryID, String DeviceInfo, ParameterValue[] Parameters, DataSourceCredentials[] Credentials, String ShowHideToggle, String& Encoding, String& MimeType, ParameterValue[]& ParametersUsed, Warning[]& Warnings, String[]& StreamIds) in c:WINDOWSMicrosoft.NETFrameworkv2.0.50727Temporary ASP.NET Filesswisherreports842e8e9d5ff5a831App_WebReferences.no0lpcgz.0.cs:line 1706 at ar_sum_aging.btnGenRpt_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e) in U:Visual Studio 2005ProjectsSwisherReportsar_sum_aging.aspx.vb:line 32
Error 2: (from ReportServer error log) w3wp!processing!1!9/25/2006-18:32:53:: e ERROR: An exception has occurred in data source 'ar_sp'. Details: System.OutOfMemoryException: Exception of type 'System.OutOfMemoryException' was thrown. at Microsoft.ReportingServices.ReportProcessing.ReportProcessing.RuntimeDataSetNode.GetNextDetailRow() at Microsoft.ReportingServices.ReportProcessing.ReportProcessing.RuntimeReportDataSetNode.FirstPassGetNextDetailRow() at Microsoft.ReportingServices.ReportProcessing.ReportProcessing.RuntimeDataSetNode.FirstPass() at Microsoft.ReportingServices.ReportProcessing.ReportProcessing.RuntimeDataSetNode.FirstPassProcess(Boolean& closeConnWhenFinish) at Microsoft.ReportingServices.ReportProcessing.ReportProcessing.RuntimeReportDataSetNode.Process() at Microsoft.ReportingServices.ReportProcessing.ReportProcessing.RuntimeDataSetNode.ProcessConcurrent(Object threadSet) w3wp!processing!1!9/25/2006-18:32:53:: i INFO: Merge abort handler called for ID=-1. Aborting data sources ... w3wp!processing!1!9/25/2006-18:32:53:: e ERROR: Throwing Microsoft.ReportingServices.ReportProcessing.ProcessingAbortedException: An error has occurred during report processing., ; Info: Microsoft.ReportingServices.ReportProcessing.ProcessingAbortedException: An error has occurred during report processing. ---> System.OutOfMemoryException: Exception of type 'System.OutOfMemoryException' was thrown. at Microsoft.ReportingServices.ReportProcessing.ReportProcessing.RuntimeDataSetNode.GetNextDetailRow() at Microsoft.ReportingServices.ReportProcessing.ReportProcessing.RuntimeReportDataSetNode.FirstPassGetNextDetailRow() at Microsoft.ReportingServices.ReportProcessing.ReportProcessing.RuntimeDataSetNode.FirstPass() at Microsoft.ReportingServices.ReportProcessing.ReportProcessing.RuntimeDataSetNode.FirstPassProcess(Boolean& closeConnWhenFinish) at Microsoft.ReportingServices.ReportProcessing.ReportProcessing.RuntimeReportDataSetNode.Process() at Microsoft.ReportingServices.ReportProcessing.ReportProcessing.RuntimeDataSetNode.ProcessConcurrent(Object threadSet) --- End of inner exception stack trace --- w3wp!processing!1!9/25/2006-18:32:53:: w WARN: Data source 'AR': Report processing has been aborted. w3wp!processing!1!9/25/2006-18:32:53:: e ERROR: Throwing Microsoft.ReportingServices.ReportProcessing.ProcessingAbortedException: An error has occurred during report processing., ; Info: Microsoft.ReportingServices.ReportProcessing.ProcessingAbortedException: An error has occurred during report processing. ---> System.OutOfMemoryException: Exception of type 'System.OutOfMemoryException' was thrown. at Microsoft.ReportingServices.ReportProcessing.ReportProcessing.RuntimeDataSetNode.GetNextDetailRow() at Microsoft.ReportingServices.ReportProcessing.ReportProcessing.RuntimeReportDataSetNode.FirstPassGetNextDetailRow() at Microsoft.ReportingServices.ReportProcessing.ReportProcessing.RuntimeDataSetNode.FirstPass() at Microsoft.ReportingServices.ReportProcessing.ReportProcessing.RuntimeDataSetNode.FirstPassProcess(Boolean& closeConnWhenFinish) at Microsoft.ReportingServices.ReportProcessing.ReportProcessing.RuntimeReportDataSetNode.Process() at Microsoft.ReportingServices.ReportProcessing.ReportProcessing.RuntimeDataSetNode.ProcessConcurrent(Object threadSet) --- End of inner exception stack trace --- w3wp!library!1!09/25/2006-18:32:58:: e ERROR: Found System.OutOfMemoryException exception: Microsoft.ReportingServices.Diagnostics.Utilities.RSException: An error has occurred during report processing. ---> Microsoft.ReportingServices.ReportProcessing.ProcessingAbortedException: An error has occurred during report processing. ---> System.OutOfMemoryException: Exception of type 'System.OutOfMemoryException' was thrown. w3wp!library!1!09/25/2006-18:32:58:: e ERROR: Terminating worker process
We have a SQL server, version 7, that has 4 CPU's. Some of our staff have reports that must be run at random times before cutting checks etc. and these reports bog down the servers CPU's big time, enough so that we can not access the server via Enterprise Manager and at times not even through Query Analyzer. During this time of course other users can not do standard work of saving or accessing the database. Our Processor queue length never seems to go over 1 now. (We recently went from 2 to 4 CPU's do to a 1.4 average queue length).
I have heard that is is possible to limit the number of CPU's that certain query's or events can use. What is the proper terminology for this and can a person do this with limited knowledge? If this can be done during "working hours" so that during off hours query's can use all CPU's, even better.
Hi, I am using SSRS to generate a 4 page statement... So i have a plan whose no. of Participants is 3271 rows... so While we try to export them to a PDF we will have around 13084 pages... but we cannot export so many pages at one time (it craps out). so right now we are breaking it up by start part and stop part and creating a pdf..
Is there a way that SSRS can handle so many pages at one go without any problems... if so how ??
When creating a report using reporting Services with a cube as a datasource, visual studio 2005 hangs. I have applied SP1 to visual studio.net 2005 .
This is the query generated by query designer in reporting services. When I try to drag and drop another dimension to slice it by , visual studio hangs.
The fact table has just 10,000 records. Are the number of dimensions used to slice the cube too many? How do I optimize this query?
SELECT NON EMPTY { [Measures].[Avg MT Rate - Speech], [Measures].[Change in Avg MT Rate], [Measures].[Edited Lines Per 1000], [Measures].[Speech Utilization], [Measures].[Time Saved %], [Measures].[Speech Edited for Rev 1], [Measures].[Change in Account Productivity], [Measures].[Hours Saved], [Measures].[Lines Per 1000], [Measures].[Average MT Rate - Total Production], [Measures].[Typed Lines], [Measures].[Productivity Time in hours - Edited Docs],[Measures].[Productivity Time in Hours - Typed Docs],[Measures].[Productivity Time in Hours]} ON COLUMNS, NON EMPTY { ([Dim Customer].[Customer Name].[Customer Name].ALLMEMBERS * [Dim Customer].[Dictator Site Name].[Dictator Site Name].ALLMEMBERS * [Dim Date].[The Month].[The Month].ALLMEMBERS * [Dim Date].[The Year].[The Year].ALLMEMBERS * [Dim MT].[Creator Last Name].[Creator Last Name].ALLMEMBERS * [Dim MT].[Creator First Name].[Creator First Name].ALLMEMBERS ) } DIMENSION PROPERTIES MEMBER_CAPTION, MEMBER_UNIQUE_NAME ON ROWS FROM ( SELECT ( STRTOMEMBER(@FromDimDateTheYear, CONSTRAINED) : STRTOMEMBER(@ToDimDateTheYear, CONSTRAINED) ) ON COLUMNS FROM ( SELECT ( STRTOMEMBER(@FromDimDateTheMonth, CONSTRAINED) : STRTOMEMBER(@ToDimDateTheMonth, CONSTRAINED) ) ON COLUMNS FROM [ETL DW])) CELL PROPERTIES VALUE, BACK_COLOR, FORE_COLOR, FORMATTED_VALUE, FORMAT_STRING, FONT_NAME, FONT_SIZE, FONT_FLAGS
I've just installed SQL Server 2005 Express, and RS (all with SP2). I can run reports fine for HTML, PDF, and Excel, but whenever I specify a format with "CSV" or "XML", I get the following error:
An attempt has been made to use a rendering extension that is not registered for this report serverAn attempt has been made to use a rendering extension that is not registered for this report server
I'd really like these report formats to work. I haven't modified any system configuration files.
I have made a working admin section for my website, now the problem is that I don´t know how to render the data (from sql database) which code should I use to render for instance a field called "projectName"?
if I try to export my rdl file to xml from Report Viewer it's work but if i try to render the rdl from code with format xml if i try to show the xml i get "Cannot have a DOCTYPE declaration outside of a prolog"
I have Reporting Services hosted on a server which has Workgroup edition of SQL Server which does not support csv export. I would like to write a csv Renderer.
I am not sure how complex this task is likely to be. Are there any White Papers or samples that would assist ? Any advice to point me in the right direction would be most appreciated.
