I am working on a project developing a fairly large number of reports with a team of developers. Many of these reports have common elements and code, such as common headers with user-selectable colors. Additionally, many of the common parts of the reports are at mockup stage currently, and many features will have to be added to the reports as time goes on.
We're attempting to create a generalized framework that will minimize the duplication of effort as we develop these reports, and as we go back and modify or fix them later.
What is the best way to approach this?
My first attempt was to create a report template and base all the reports off of the same template. That was fine for the first pass, but as we need to make changes later, they will not be propagated to the already existing reports.
My second attempt was to have each componant of that template reference a subreport, so that changes to the actual report template will be minimized as we go forward. This works great for minimizeing work, but it appears that you lose many features with the use of subreports, and there seems to be a pretty serious performance impact as well. I have posted about one such issue here: Pagination
If anyone has pointers about how to go about this, and where I should start, they would be greatly apreciated!
I have a report that is embedded in a .net 2.0 web form. It works. I would like to be able to modify some of the elements in the report as the web form loads. I have tried the following code that did NOT work:
Dim myImage1 As New Image
myImage1 = Me.ReportViewer1.FindControl("Image1")
myImage1.ImageUrl = "Images/small_info_logo.jpg"
Does anyone know of a site that has some godo examples and object models on how to do this?
Has anyone run across this before? I'm missing the Contents and Properties tab along with the button bar containing the "New Folder", "New Data Source", "Upload File" and "Show Details" buttons in the Report Manager. Also, which I think may be related, when I attempt to deploy a report I get the error: "A connection could not be made to the report server http://MyServer/Reports.
[rsInvalidColor] The value of the BackgroundColor property for the textbox €˜textbox14€™ is €œTransparent€?, which is not a valid BackgroundColor.
This is appearing when I set the BackgroundColor property in a SSRS report using an expression. What I'm trying to do is have the colour of the text and background returned by the stored procedure that returns the data for use in Matrix and Table. But the problem seems to relate to all controls in SSRS 2005.
Steps to reproduce are create a new report, add a TextBox.
Go to properties of the textbox and select the Backgroundcolor and select Expression...
Then add the expression:
="Transparent"
Transparent doesn't seem to be a constant, but does appear to be a value you are allowed to selected (and is the default) from the drop down in the background colour.
The work-around is to use White, which works if you don't use a background image or change the background colour of the page.
However if you do us the "Transaparent" colour, then it does return the correct effect, but generates an error in the Output window within the development environment. I'm just ignoring the error for the time being. but has anyone else seen this error.
Dear Folks, I'm getting the error with application like this..............
"the transaction log for database "mydatabase" is full.....to find out why space in the log can not be reused, see the log_reuse_wait_desc column in sys databases. "
I've checked with the column, there are totally 3 options.(I've checked with all other databases) 1)checkpoint, 2)log_backup, 3)nothing
what can i choose for this error to be suppressed? actually there was log_backup option.
It's a pretty basic question but I haven't been able to find any examples out there. I dimmed a dataadapter and would like to reuse later in my code (line 3 in the code below). What is the correct syntax to do this? Dim da As New SqlDataAdapter("SELECT * FROM myTable", conn)da.Fill(myDataTable)da.______ ("SELECT * FROM myTable2", conn)da.Fill(myDataTable2)
The SqlParameter with ParameterName '@pk' is already contained by another SqlParameterCollection
If I could work out what code to post I would, but I can say that I am managing my Sql data in my code by caching small arrays of SqlParameter objects as pulled from the database. If I need to update the DB I change the cached SqlParameter and re-insert it. If I perform a SELECT I check the cache first to see if I already have the SqlParameter. However, currently, I am experiencing the above error when performing a select, then later an update, followed by another update. Would I be correct in saying that a SqlParameter object can only be used once for a database operation and should be discarded? Would I be correct if I said that the SqlCommand object should be discarded? I am barking up the wrong tree entirely?
I can create a SqlCacheDependency, and link it to a cached item in httpcontext cache. When something change, it will remove the cached item from the cache. I think I have to redo the process when that happens - prepare sql command, create SqlCacheDependency and insert the item into cache. Now I only need a notification from my SQL when something changes in one of my table, I don;t need read anything from db, and I think I should find a way to not recreate the SqlCacheDependency object everytime? any suggestion?
What is the best code pratice to use do the following code,
SELECT fo.no as LNum, fo.name as LName, sum(CASE fo.docnome WHEN "In" THEN fo.etotal ELSE 0 END) as In1, sum(CASE fo.docnome WHEN "In2" THEN fo.etotal ELSE 0 END) as In2, sum(In1+In2)/10 as inDec, from fo group by fo.no,fo.name order by fo.name
instead of
SELECT fo.no as LNum, fo.name as LName, sum(CASE fo.docnome WHEN "In" THEN fo.etotal ELSE 0 END) as In1, sum(CASE fo.docnome WHEN "In2" THEN fo.etotal ELSE 0 END) as In2, ((sum(CASE fo.docnome WHEN "In" THEN fo.etotal ELSE 0 END))+sum(CASE fo.docnome WHEN "In2" THEN fo.etotal ELSE 0 END)))/10 as inDec, from fo group by fo.no,fo.name order by fo.name
I cant use functions and procedures. Is there any better and cleaner way to code this, reusing the calculated values?
I wonder if there is a solution for this in SQL 2000 (or do I have towait for SQL 2005)?I am currently in the middle of developing a 'Yahoo' style portal whichwill be rolled out in about 20 or so countries. I have set up in SQLServer one database per country. All the portals have the samefunctionality - but show different data.Is it possible to have a single database which holds storedproceedures, functions and views and have the individual countrydatabases use these?Note: I want to avoid using EXEC sp_executesql.I look forward to some good news on this! Thank you in advance.Dadou.
Hi. I'm starting to try out LINQ to SQL, and so I'm using SQL Express (on Vista) to experiment. My problem is that once I create and delete a database, I can never use the name again. If, after deleting the old database, I try to create another one with the same name (say Acct1), I get "Create failed for Database 'Acct1'. An exception occurred while executing a Transact-SQL statement or batch. The logical file name "Acct1" is already in use. Choose a different name. Error: 1828"
I am trying to create the database in SQL Server Management Studio Express. That database name does not appear in the list of databases: there is only AdventureWorks and the system databases. The .MDF and .LDF files have been deleted. Not just sent to the recycle bin, but permanently deleted.
I have already used up Acct1, Acct2, and Acct3, just to try out different scenarios. Each time, I delete the old database before trying to create a new one with the same name, but I am forced to always supply a new, different name. I have checked the directory with hidden files and system files showing to be sure there is no old file lurking there somewhere.
Is there a way to delete these old "logical file names"? I can't even find any reference to their existence except for the message that says they are already in use.
with c1 As ( select 1 As '1' , 2  As '2' , 3 As '3' ) , c2 As ( select 4  As '4', 5  As '5',  6 As '6' union all select 1 , 2 ,3 from c1  -- >>>>>  select from c1 here ) select * from c2  union all  select * from c1 -- >>>>>> and select from c1 hereÂ
According to the query above , I try to reuse the subquery by put  the subquery into 'with cte'  name (c1)  then i select this  2 times .
if I do this way , how many time this subquery (c1) execute ? if 1 time then this is the right way to reuse this subquery . if 2 times  , it is not then what should i do to reuse this subquery ?
I have read the articles posted online concerning different dialog reuse strategies. Most of them create a new table in the sender to hold dialog ids. I was wondering what is wrong, if anything, with the following approach:
Code Block declare @dlg uniqueidentifier select top 1 @dlg = conversation_handle from sys.conversation_endpoints where state IN ('CO') if @dlg is null begin begin dialog conversation @dlg from service [tcp://SFT3DEVSQL01:4022/TyMetrix360Audit/DataSender] to service '//TyMetrix360Audit/DataWriter','386DDD04-7E55-466A-BE83-37EFC20910B9' on contract [//TyMetrix360Audit/Contract] with encryption = off; end ;send on conversation @dlg message type [//TyMetrix360Audit/Message] (@msg)
Here I simply select a conversation handle directly from the sys.conversation_endpoints table. Can anyone see any issues with this approach?
I have been working with SQL for quiet a while but think this perhaps is a very basic question that has always escaped me:
At my work I was exposed to both, MS SQL Server 2000 and Sybase Adaptive Server Anywhere/Sybase SQL Anywhere.
Under Sybase I was able to use aliases in other calculations and filters but i have never been able to do the same with SQL.
Example: In Sybase I can write this:
Select Price * Units as Cost Cost * SalesTax as TotalTaxFrom Invoice Where TotalTax > 3.5 However if i want to do this in MS SQL 2000 i have to go trough
Select Price * Units as Cost Price * Units * SalesTax as TotalTax From Invoice Where (Price * Units * SalesTax) > 3.5
In the long run this is costing me a lot of code redundancy, not to mention a debugging nightmare. Is there a way to replicate this alias usage in MS SQL Server?
I have a table in which there is a column of type identity(1,1),in the same table i have bulk data, and i have deleted a row from my table, so now i want to reuse that same Id again, how to do that.
I have some common functions that i use in several script tasks. How du i store a function globaly so that i can use it from different projects and still only have to edit it one place ?
I have several stage to star (i.e. moving data from a staging table through the key lookups into a fact table) ETL transformations in a single SSIS package. Each fact table has a different set of measures but the identical foreign key set, e.g. ConsultantKey, SubsidiaryKey, ContestKey, ContestParamKey and MonthKey.
Currently I have to replicate the key lookup (Surrogate Key Pipeline, or SKP) for each data flow. If I could cache each dimension one time in the package and reuse it for each stage to fact it would be much more efficient.
Is there a way for me to reuse a common data flow?
I've added a typed DataSet and dragged a table across from the server explorer. When I click configure on the table adapter, then click previous back to the "Choose Your Data Connection" dialog. The only option is the new connection that was just created when I added the sql server to the server explorer. Is there anyway to reuse my existing web.config connection string? My goal is to have a single connection string in my web.config. Thanks. -David
I'm trying to implement a configurable way of executing a group of SQL statements using either an Oracle or SQL database as the source for the data.
I'm currently building a connection string with a Script Task and then assigning it to a package variable so that it can be used by a connection manager but this only works with a SQL OLEDB connection.
I'm holding all the connection details in a database table, hence the need for the scripting but would it be possible to extend the task to reuse a single connection manager by changing it's properties?
The client was unable to reuse a session with SPID 94, which had been reset for conection pooling. This error may have been caused by an earlier operation failing. Check the error logs for failed operations immediately before this error message.
SPID varies.
Anybody that knows anything why this error occurs?
I am using SSRS 2005 SP2 and I need to allow my users to select the products they want in the report. I created a data set to get the list of the products and then used it in a multivalue parameter to generate a drop down list. My problem is that the list is too long (more than 2000 elements) and thus, it takes 10 sec to collapse the drop down list after tickinging the products.
Does anyone have an miraculous solution? Thanks in advance for your answers.
This one I hope is easy, but I've been working late and it seems to be aluding me. I have a field called time_in which is a char(6) field type. This field holds time elements such at 10:57
My query below is substracting one hour from Time_In and returning it as Hold_Time. I only want to return the time element without the date portion or the milliseconds, etc.
Code Block select substring(cu.time_in, 1,5) as time_in, DATEADD(hour, -1, substring(cu.time_in, 1,5)) as hold_time from reports.careunits_hold_hours cu
We are running SQL2K5 and have a Web server with a family of sites all sharing an identical connection string to enable ADO connection pooling between them. Today for about 20 minutes we had several (all?) connections from one site that uses a specific DB get a connection reuse error which showed in out SQL logs:
DESCRIPTION: The client was unable to reuse a session with SPID #, which had been reset for conection pooling. This error may have been caused by an earlier operation failing. Check the error logs for failed operations immediately before this error message.
We also have SQL Server slowdown and log in problems from other applications that seemed a symptom of this, or some third unknown cause. Note, the # means the run-time spid number was inserted. The misspelling "conection" comes right out of sys.messages (it is not our custom error):
select top 10 * from sys.messages where message_id = 18056
The immediately preceeding error in the SQL Log was always: Message Error: 18056, Severity: 20, State: 29.
Where Severity and State vary, but "Error: 18056" is consistent, although I can find no documentation on "Error: 18056" through Google or MSDN.
Also, the "The client was unable to reuse a session ..." error seems not to be referred to anywhere.
In our IIS logs, the matching entries are of the form:
[DBNETLIB][ConnectionRead (recv()).]General network error. Check your network documentation.
and
Invalid connection string attribute
My questions: Does anyone have experience with this error? We have real good history with ADO connection pooling, but can a "bad" connection be pooled, and if so can it be "flushed" or the pool "drained"?
I guess this is a fairly common topic but couldn't find the right words to find anything in a search.
What I'm getting at, is there any tsql functions or combination of commands for the following.
You have identity columns in your tables, if you set the a seed and autoincrement, I enter in rows 1 -10 and then I delete 4, 6, 7, 8.
My next new record uses 11. Is there any logic that allows you to check and reuse 4, 6, 7 & 8 described above? Not looking for something that consists of having to create an extra ID table for each table and handle configuring what the next available number is everytime an Insert or delete is called.
Hi, I use the FOR XML AUTO to retrive native XML from a database with: SELECT [xml] FROM myxml WHERE id = 81 FOR XML AUTO, elements, root('ROOT')" However it returns the database name and table name as parent elements. How can I return just my raw XML data without additional elements: XML is Stored: <ROOT> <CHAPTER> <TITLE>This is a test</TITLE> </CHAPTER> </ROOT> Returns: <databasename> <tablename> <ROOT> <CHAPTER> <TITLE>This is a test</TITLE> </CHAPTER> </ROOT> </tablename> </databasename>
I need to build an XML file with three sibling ComplexType elements, e.g. finance, itinerary and crew details. I can separately build each of them with no problem at all. Below is an example of the finance part, but how to have three within the same XML,?
What I have found so far was only to build one ComplexType, as I did below, but not a combination of them.
WITH finance AS (SELECT 200.12 AS fare, 12.78 AS VAT, 45.5 AS Tax UNION ALL SELECT 150.12 AS fare,
Hi All,If have a sql table with 2 columns and 2 rows with values[["col1row1","col2row1"],["col1row2","col2row2"]].Using t-SQL with "for xml"How can i create a xml where the cell values (not column names) appearas elements?eg:<col1row1>col2row1</col1row1><col1row2>col2row2</col1row2>Thanks,slyi
