Reporting Services Capabilities
Jan 22, 2008
I've been given a brief to create a web based MI solution to enable users to gain information about their departments and drill down and analyse information presented to them.
I've been asked to look at Reporting services for this, we have been using Crystal Reports, but not to the extent of public facing MI delivery that this project demands.
Could I ask the forum some basic Questions?
1> Is it possible to produce live interactive reports for use on the internet with reporting services.
2> Can I produce reports that can drill down on data, and that can be tweaked so that they are extremly 'user freindly?
3> What are the chart options available, I have been asked to look into providing 'stickmen graphs'. In that a chart is produced to represent a population, and each item of the population is represented by a little man graphic.
4> Are there any good websites that have code snippets and the like to SSRS?
5> Can you recommend any good books.
Thanks in advance for any reponses to these queries.
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Mar 22, 2008
Hello,
I am trying to migrate my reports from SQL server 2000 reporting services 32bit to 2005 64bit. I am following the migration steps that MS specified.
Restored my Reportserver and ReportserverTempDB databases
Then I was using the configure Report services to upgrade these databases but I always end up getting the follwoing exception when I run the upgrade on the "Database Setup" configuration for 'ReportServerTempDB' database
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: Could not locate entry in sysdatabases for database 'ReportServerTempDBTempDB'. No entry found with that name. Make sure that the name is entered correctly.
at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection.OnError(SqlException exception, Boolean breakConnection)
at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnection.OnError(SqlException exception, Boolean breakConnection)
at System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.ThrowExceptionAndWarning(TdsParserStateObject stateObj)
at System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.Run(RunBehavior runBehavior, SqlCommand cmdHandler, SqlDataReader dataStream, BulkCopySimpleResultSet bulkCopyHandler, TdsParserStateObject stateObj)
at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.RunExecuteNonQueryTds(String methodName, Boolean async)
at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.InternalExecuteNonQuery(DbAsyncResult result, String methodName, Boolean sendToPipe)
at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.ExecuteNonQuery()
at Microsoft.ReportingServices.Common.DBUtils.ApplyScript(String connectionString, String script)
at ReportServicesConfigUI.SqlClientTools.SqlTools.ApplyScript(String connectionString, String script)
It's driving me crazy, why is it looking for 'ReportServerTempDBTempDB' in the catalog instead of 'ReportServerTempDB'?
Is it possible to migrate from 32bit to 64bit?
Any help is appreciated
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Dec 6, 2006
I'm attempting to obtain a cost effective solution for my existing customers to develop reports on their SQL 2000 Server installations using their Reporting Services 2000. With products like Visual Basic.NET 2003 becoming almost impossible to obtain, I have at least one customer who is running into a dead end.
One option possibly is the SQL Express with Advanced Services download, which has Reporting Services. My questions are as follows:
Can the report designer component of SQL Express Reporting Services be configured to connect to an external database (which would happen to be a SQL 2000 database) to establish its datasets?
Does the resultant designed report end up in an RDL file? If the customer published this report via the Reporting Services 2000 Report Manager, would the report be able to run?
Sorry for asking a question like this that I could probably answer on my own, but my customer needed this answer yesterday. I have scoured the web and microsoft sites - and posted a question on the official SQL Reporting Services cateogy ... in an attempt to answer the basic question of how to design reports for Reporting Services 2000 in the absence of Visual Basic.NET 2003 (or other .NET 2003 tools) with no success.
Thanks to anyone who can help.
-- Mark
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Mar 27, 2007
I am starting on a project where we will be using SSIS. I am totally new to it and would like to ask for your input on whether SSIS can do what I want it to do.
What we are wanting to do is to take data that is loaded into a queue table, and then possibly transform it a bit and load it into a common db as a batch. After that, subsets of that data should then be replicated to other databases based on some criteria. So what we end up with is one database with all the data and two (for now) databases, each with a subset of that data.
Ideally we would want our backend apps to work with the data in the common database and our frontend apps to work with the data in the two other databases.
So I have a couple of questions.
Can SSIS do two-way replication? So if the frontend changed one of the subset databases, could it replicate the change to the common database? And likewise, if the backend changed the common database, could it replicate the change to one of the subset databases?
What is a good way to execute a package from code? For example, from code we would load some tables, and then we would like to execute the SSIS package after that to go through the tables and transform and send that to other tables in one big batch job.
Is it possible to look at the status of package execution from another computer other than the one running the package? I know one way is just for the package to write to a table what it is doing and that table can then be looked at. I was wondering if there was some more elegant way of doing this.
We are also looking at whether we can do our archiving process from SSIS. All it involves is taking the data in the common database and transforming it to xml and outputting it as a file. Is there a way to write out to an xml file? I saw that you can read in xml in SSIS, but I didn't see a way to output xml.
Those are all my questions for now. If you can help me out with even one of them, it would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Raphael
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Jun 20, 2000
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Jul 20, 2005
I'm composing a comparison table of database capabilities of severaldifferent products. I've read the Transact-SQL reference and havegathered most of the information needed for SQL Server 2000 (MSSQL),but there are some things that I'm not very sure of. Could someoneconfirm or complete the points below?* MSSQL can index binary data but only for BINARY & VARBINARY fieldsand not IMAGE.* ALTER TABLE can't rename column name/index name/constraint name.* A functional index (index on expression/function) can be definedusing user-defined function, e.g. CREATE INDEX idx ON t (MY_FUNC(f))* Maximum number of indexes per table?* SEQUENCE (as in PostgreSQL) is not supported, but there is a datatype called TIMESTAMP/ROWVERSION that is 64-bit. SEQUENCE can also beimplemented using a 'counter table'.* Regexp is not recognized, only standard SQL LIKE pattern.* Maximum number of schemas per database?* There is no BOOLEAN data type, but one can use BIT as analternative.* Does MSSQL use a generational/MVCC/record-versioning architecture,to allow writers to not block readers and vice versa?* Can several user-defined functions be created with the same name butwith different signatures (argument type)? For example, REVERSE(text)and REVERSE(varbinary).* Does MSSQL have/use WAL (write-ahead logs)?* Can a unique index contain multiple NULLs?
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Jan 22, 2007
Hello all,
I have a winform application, where in we get the parameters from the reporting service and we display them in a panel for user's to input their criteria. So far everything worked good, but now we have a requirement wherein dynamic functionality is needed.
For Example:
Based on a selection of a combobox value, we want the other control to be enabled or disabled. Also we want default value of a control to be calculated based on another control's value like .. if user enters value "1" in textbox1 then texbox 2 should have default value of "6". (Textbox1 + 5).........and mix and match of such capabilities.
The Question is........IS IT POSSIBLE??? and if yes...HOW!!!
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Nov 10, 2006
Hi!
I've read a lot of informoation about the Microsoft Sequence
Clustering algorithm, but the more i read more confused i get. Here's
my doubt:
Can it discover sequences of "tokes" and then group them? Or only compare sequences in order to group them?
Thanks in advance
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Nov 20, 2006
Greetings,
My desire is to have my primary db in FL and an online hot standby in both my MI and CA offices. The hardware is in place, as well as T1 size pipes. The solution I'm looking for would have all databases online in case of hardware / environmental failure although the application would only be pointing at the primary (or designated) database server. We have another 3rd party solution available, but I'd like to stay native SQL if possible.
Is replication the way to go?
Does one-to-many work?
Can all the db's be online and available while replicating?
Can I catch up if switched to one of the other db's temporarily?
note:This is 100% SQL 2005.
Thanks -- sorry for the newbie-flavor of the question, but I'm sure a gazillion people have already been down this decision branch.
Dan Ribar
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Jul 27, 2015
I work in a big project and we will begin in using reporting services as the base technique for reports and I will be responsible for this part. but I have a problem I will discuss in the following:
Currently: We use currently devexpress reports and we have 2 languages(Arabic and English). the data in tables saved in two ways (Arabic and English). when the end user change the language of the web site the report data language changed when run it.
Example:
we have table with (ID, NAME_AR, NAME_EN, JobTitle_AR, JobTitle_EN). designed report will display(ID, NAME_EN, JobTitle_EN) . but the end user change the language of the system the report will
dispaly(ID, NAME_AR, JobTitle_AR)
Hint:this done pragmatically
how to do this in reporting services.
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Mar 6, 2006
Simply put, I have a 'Date and Time', (06/03/2006 11:40:00), passed to the SelectCommand via the QueryString. I would like to gain data that is between the supplied time and 1 hour prior.Is there a simple way to take 1 hr off the 'Date and Time" value or is it necessary to build code that parses the string then adjusts it?
The 'Time' and 'TimeStamp' entities below are both of type 'Date and Time' and all values are gained from the same sql database. I.e. the time used as the basis for selecting the hr period is from the same database as the one where the hour period will be selected from.
Any help would be great.
SelectCommand="SELECT [Timestamp], [Volume] FROM [out8$] WHERE (([CustomerLvl1] = @CustomerLvl1) AND ([Timestamp] = @Timestamp))">
<SelectParameters>
<asp:QueryStringParameter DefaultValue="TNT Express" Name="CustomerLvl1" QueryStringField="Cust"
Type="String" />
<asp:QueryStringParameter DefaultValue="20/02/2006 22:20:00" Name="Timestamp" QueryStringField="Time"
Type="DateTime" />
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Mar 12, 2007
Hi There,
Our DBA has installed reporting services on a server and now in order to access the report manager, one has to be an Admin on that Server. I am guessing that there is a mistake in the configuration of Reporting Services. Usually it should allow anybody who was added to the roles in the properties section of the Report Manager, right? I have also added the users to the DB..
Also I am using Windows Authentication to access Report Catalog items (Reporting Services is installed on Server2) from a web Application(deployed on Server1) and displaying the report using report viewer. For some reason, server1 has to be in an Admin role on Server2 to access the report catalog/report. This is kinda strange for me as I don't want everybody to be an Admin on Server2. Can anybody please point in the right direction?
Thanks.
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Sep 11, 2015
We have installed SQL Server 2005 with reporting services.When tried to open getting errors as below: how to avoid such errors See the end of this message for details on invoking just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box.
ReportServicesConfigUI.WMIProvider.WMIProviderException: A WMI error has occurred and no additional error information is available. ---> System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x8000000A)
at System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.ThrowExceptionForHRInternal(Int32 errorCode, IntPtr errorInfo)
[code]...
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May 14, 2008
Hi all,
I have some problem about reporting service add-in.
After I install reporting service add-in for SharePoint, reporting service menu does not appear in Application Management Tab in SharePoint Central Administration.
I try to uninstall and re-install again, it remain not work.
How can I solve this problem?
Thank you very much.
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Nov 3, 2015
Is there any way to get the report toolbar using SOAP Api in SSRS reporting.
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Jun 19, 2015
We've got a requirement to build the real time report. user can browse report at any point of time and need to see the latest data(stock market) in the report.
I've few options down...
1. Directly point to OLTP database as source and write stored procedure to show result set.
2. Replicate the database and write the SP's to reports. To avoid pointing directly to OLTP db.
3. To build the datawarehouse with dim & facts to show it in reports. I prefer this as a standard method, but this would have some latency depending on trasaction load which will differ from the requirement.
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Jan 15, 2007
HI There
We are required to gather certain information regarding reporting services.
Which reports were requested, by whom , how long did they run for, what parameters were passed etc etc.
I see that the system tables do provide some of this information, is there a 3rd party tool or something we can use to gather all this type of information for us?
This is for reporting services 2000 and 2005.
Thanx
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Mar 23, 2007
Hi,
I have just install SQL 2005 SP2 and trying to get Window SharePoint Services V3 integrated with SQL 2005 SP2 reporting services.
In SharePoint Central Administration, I select the Reporting Services Integration page and have setup the Report Server Web Service URL and Authentication Mode. I then goto Grant database access, specify the SQL server name, get promted for a username and password that has access SQL Reportserver and get the following error "The group name could not be found"
Does anyone have any ideas?
Thanks
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Jul 23, 2010
We built our prod server [vm] with SQL Server 2008 R2 on Server 2008 R2. It works nicely. Then we made a copy of the VM and renamed it (so our test environment would be IDENTICAL to production). After that, SSRS was broken: I get "HTTP Error 503. The service is unavailable." I can't connect via http, or SSMS.
We have tried:
* Running SSRS config tool (several times)
* Running with/without the IIS Server Role
* Dropping & recreating the SSRS keys
* Recreating the ReportServer database, etc
* Checking all of the accounts, permissions, etc
* Running SQL Repair
* Going through the registry to fix any references to the machine's old name
* Uninstalling, reinstalling SSRS
* Completely uninstalling ALL of the parts of SQL Server 2008 R2, deleting all directories, removing references to SQL Server from the registry, rebooting, reinstalling everything.
None of this has worked. SSRS [R2] is still 503 on our test box.
the SSRS [NT] service seems to run, without error. The Event Viewer doesn't seem to be recording any errors. The SSRS logs say that the default URL is wrong, but we get the same error in Prod, and Prod works fine. The other SQL Logs say something about not being able to contact the service. However, as I said, the [NT] service seems to be working fine.
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Dec 3, 2006
I think I've seen a similar post on a blog or on the forums - but it seems like this should be possible -
I have an MDX query - that works fine in SQL Enterprise Manager, and has my dimension members on columns, and my measures on the rows. When I try the same query in Reporting Services, I get the error:
"The query cannot be prepared: The query must have at least one axis. The first axis of the query should not have multiple hierarchies, nor should it reference any dimension other than the Measures dimension..
Parameter name: mdx (MDXQueryGenerator)"
Although it works when you pivot the view, I really need my data presented with the members on the columns and the measures on the rows. Another forum post mentioned using the SQL 9.0 driver, but I can't see this listed anywhere (the only one I see is the .NET framework Data Provider for Microsoft Analysis Services).
Here's what my query looks like -
SELECT
{ [Time].[Month].&[2006-09-01T00:00:00] ,
[Time].[Month].&[2006-10-01T00:00:00],
[Time].[Month].&[2006-11-01T00:00:00],
[Time].[Month].&[2006-12-01T00:00:00]
} on COLUMNS,
{
[Measures].[Unique Users],
[Measures].[UU Pct 1],
[Measures].[UU Pct 2],
} ON ROWS
FROM [Cube]
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Arjun
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Sep 16, 2007
Hi All,
I'm trying to create reports in RS2005 using AS2000 as my data source. I understand that if I use RS2005 on AS2000, I wont be able to enjoy the OLAP based parameters as in using AS2005. Does anyone know an easy way to easily use Parameters in RS2005 while still using AS2000?
Regards,
Joseph
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Dec 19, 2006
I'm using Reporting Services 2005 SP1 and wrote some code to render reports server-side.
My sample report has few parameters that must be passed so I pass these parameters with code.
<My code>
ReportServiceExecution.ReportExecutionService rs = new ReportServiceExecution.ReportExecutionService();
rs.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;
string extension, mimeType, encoding;
ReportServiceExecution.Warning[] warnings;
string[] streamID;
ParameterValue[] parameters = new ParameterValue[2];
parameters[0] = new ParameterValue();
parameters[0].Name = "pID";
parameters[0].Value = "6548747";
parameters[1] = new ParameterValue();
parameters[1].Name = "pClass";
parameters[1].Value = "8";
ExecutionHeader header = new ExecutionHeader();
ExecutionInfo executionInfo = rs.LoadReport(reportPayslip.Name, null);
executionInfo = rs.SetExecutionParameters(parameters, "en-us");
rs.ExecutionHeaderValue = header;
rs.ExecutionHeaderValue.ExecutionID = executionInfo.ExecutionID;
byte[] report = rs.Render("PDF", "<DeviceInfo><Toolbar>False</Toolbar></DeviceInfo>", out extension, out mimeType, out encoding, out warnings, out streamID);
</My code>
Actually, I have several more parameters but I've checked the collection and all the parameters I want are there and have values. Their names match those found in executionInfo.Parameters. But when I run my code I get the following error on Render():
<Error>
"This report requires a default or user-defined value for the report parameter 'pClass'. To run or subscribe to this report, you must provide a parameter value. ---> This report requires a default or user-defined value for the report parameter 'pClass'. To run or subscribe to this report, you must provide a parameter value. ---> This report requires a default or user-defined value for the report parameter 'pClass'. To run or subscribe to this report, you must provide a parameter value."
</Error>
I've double-checked and my parameter array does have the problematic parameter, I passed it a value but when I check executionInfo.Parameters I see that it's the only parameter that hasn't been give a default value after calling SetExecutionParameters(). So my parameters do seem to be passed but one seems to refuse getting a value. If I comment out the SetExecutionParameters() line I get, as expected a similar error but on another parameter (first one in the executionInfo.Parameters collection). So I'm left to beleive that the SetExecutionParameters() has some kind of bug as it works for all but one parameter. I've checked casing, spelling, tried passing phony parameters and from what I've seen I should be getting an error when I pass the parameters if I got something wrong.
Any help would be much appreciated.
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May 29, 2007
Hi,
I am invoking RS web services to render reports, using Apache Axis to generate stub classes from Reporting Service WSDL.
Please let me know if I can integrate Report Viewer control in the jsp where I am writing the report output. Else do I have to create my own custom tags simulating ReportViewer functionality.
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Dec 10, 2007
My requirement for the parameter is multivalue parameter with a text box. for example when user enters aa15 it need to include product aa15. when the user enters aa15, aa16, zz15 than it needs to include all the three products. the last case is when the user enters AA** than i need to inclued all the products start with AA. when i use default multivalue parameter with data source analytical services than i am getting a drop down box. I dont want that. I need a text box where user can enter the value.
1. In sql we have a like key word to query . for example select * from product where product like "AA%".
what is equavalent mdx query to get such results ?
2.How to impliment the multivalue parameters without using dropdown box?
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Aug 6, 2012
I am facing sever Refresh issue in PPS Reports. I have Two Dashboard
Dashboard_One and Dashboard_Two
I have few Filters on both the Dashboard .
In Dashboard_One I have 2 Filters
1)Year filter where Year 2012 is my Default value
2)City Filter where "CityOne" is Default Filter Value
If I select Year"2010" in Period Filter and "CityTwo" In City Filter.I see Related reports . Now I navigate to Dashboard_Two to See Other Reports where I have few Other Filter Like "Country" where I select "CountryThree" . When I navigate Back to Dashboard_one I do not see Dashboard with Default value given to them
I still see Filter value Year=2010 and CountryFilter="CountryTwo" in Dashboard Dashboard_One .. where as I should have seen it based on the Default value given to the Filter.. How should I resolve this refresh issue which I am facing in PPS Dashboard. I do not see Default value in the Filter ,It always give the filter value which was selected later when Navigated back.
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Apr 24, 2015
I am trying to configure the reporting for TFS using SQL Server. But I get following error when viewing any report:
So I try to manually process the cube to check if it works. I am following this article: [URL] ....
When I click on GetProcessingStatus and invoke it (with last field set as TRUE) I get following error:
How to resolve this issue and be able to see the reports.
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May 8, 2015
I started my Reporting Server and if I use the Internet Explorer as a Administrator everything works fine.But if I don't open it as an admin it calls "rsAccess Denied The user [...] does not have the permission...".Problem is that I want to run it in an SAP Program with an HTML Viewer. how I can get those Permissions ?By the way somehow I'm not able to create or change roles in the Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio.
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Jul 30, 2007
Hello,
i have a small problem with the data sources in the reporting services, maybe you can clarify the situation... I have a MS CRM 3 solution with the reporting services 2005 installed. From an other vendor we have a arcplan solution on the 2000 analysis services. I would like to get access from the 2005 reporting services to the 2000 cube. Is this possible? Ive read that the SSMS cant connect to the 2000 cubes. Can i connect from the reporting services??
thank you
regards
Andreas
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May 15, 2007
Hi all,
Till now all the reports for our application was created in Reporting Services 2005 with SQL Server Database(OLTP) stored procedures.
Most of the reports take 10 to 15 report Parameters and all are multi valued.
Now because of the slow response time,we have decided to use OLAP cubes data source. We have created the OLAP cube in Microsoft Analysis Services.
Can someone tell me how to use the report parameters to query the Cube.
Any links,books for reference would be of great help..
Thanks,
Looking forward to your replies
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Jan 27, 2004
Hi
What is the diff between the above 2?
Thanks.
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Jan 24, 2007
Setup: Reporting Services and Analysis Services are on the same server. Active Directory User. Default configuration of Reporting Services.
Problem: Reporting Server does not apply Analysis Services Role after login.
Details:
I have created a report that retreives data from the Analysis Service. I created a role and added my user company/myUserName to the role.
On the Reporting Server I set the data source to :
* Credentials supplied by the user running the report
and
Use as Windows credentials when connecting to the data source
Internally when I connect devsql2005/Reports/ReportName I get the user and password fields. When I fill them in I get the report but I can see all the data while my role was restricted to see only few results.
Can anyone suggest what may be wrong? Any articles or tutorials on how to setup and deploy solutions where Report Server is talking to Analysis Services and NOT Sql Server.
Thank You,
Pavel Hlobil
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Jan 4, 2013
We are using Notification services of SQL Server 2005 in our application. The scenario is that mails will be sent to customers based on different criteria like New Invoices, Overdue Invoices, Invoices due in certain number of days, Invoices for which Amount Exceeds certain value etc. We are using two stored procedures and two tables to achieve this. One stored proc inserts/updates data related to different notifications that are selected by customers. Another stored proc inserts or updates data related to customers who created the notification.
We are now planning to upgrade from SQL 2005 to SQL server 2012. Since notification services are no longer supported in SQL 2012, we are looking for other alternatives. Which among the below would be the best alternative to replace notification services for our scenario. Also, anyny documentation or useful links which would support us in replacing notification services.
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Dec 30, 2007
Hello, I understand that SQL Express Advanced Edition does not support report subscriptions. However, I have two questions:
Is there a way to run a report in a batch mode where the web ui would not show and perhaps the result of the report could be automated to export to .pdf format?
Does anyone know if SQL Express 2008 with Advanced Services will support report subscriptions, or any sort of a batch reporting capability?
Thanks in advance!
Tim
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