Sharing Style/formatting Between Reports Or Objects
Apr 9, 2007
To date I have found no way of defining styles that can be shared either between objects or between reports.
I am looking for the concept of the rdl making a reference to an external css (or equivalent) file. This would allow for me to define a font or image external to the rdl and shared among all my reports. Currently if I want to change my header image, I need to edit 50 rdl files across the reporting suite.
What work arounds are available for this? Is this a coming feature enhancement? If so when? Does the reporting team publish a list of future enhancments?
I know crystal and few other reporting packages have the concept of css or style external to the report.
Cheers
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Apr 9, 2007
To date I have found no way of defining styles that can be shared either between objects or between reports.
I am looking for the concept of the rdl making a reference to an external css (or equivalent) file. This would allow for me to define a font or image external to the rdl and shared among all my reports. Currently if I want to change my header image, I need to edit 50 rdl files across the reporting suite.
What work arounds are available for this? Is this a coming feature enhancement? If so when? Does the reporting team publish a list of future enhancments?
I know crystal and few other reporting packages have the concept of css or style external to the report.
Cheers
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Jun 9, 2006
I want to make a CSS Style solution for my reports. I have few ideas related to this, changing the report properties on the fly, but I am not sure for which I should go for.
- We know that we can put expression on reports almost everywhere, and can also call custom code for setting up those expressions. i.e.
Public Shared Function GetValue(ByVal Key As String) As String
Dim myDataReader As SqlDataReader
Dim mySqlConnection As SqlConnection
Dim mySqlCommand As SqlCommand
mySqlConnection = New SqlConnection("server=localhost;Trusted_Connection=yes;database=tempMIQB")
mySqlCommand = New SqlCommand("SELECT * FROM [Properties] Where PropertyName='" & Key & "'", mySqlConnection)
mySqlConnection.Open()
myDataReader = mySqlCommand.ExecuteReader(CommandBehavior.CloseConnection)
If myDataReader.Read() Then
GetValue = myDataReader.Item("PropertyValue").ToString
Else
GetValue = "None"
End If
End Function
and in textbox or any where I can say =Code.GetValue("BGColor") or from .NET dll.
For going further on with this idea I can create an .NET dll and get the list from database or XML file. (Please give suggestions for performance/scalability issue.)
- second idea is to write a custom application (script) which can go through all the reports and change the color and fonts and every thing.
- third is to use parameters and use Array.IndexOf method to search for the value, but in this case i need to add dataset to all reports and, I think we cannot access report properties i.e. Parameters from custom code, just to make a generic function to access parameter value.
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Oct 30, 2007
Hi,
Can we share and schedule whole report folder(not just one report) by using management studio?
Thanks
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Sep 26, 2007
I'm looking for some advice on how to manage reports that use the same query in their datasets. I have multiple reports that use several datasets that are the same. If I need to make a change to one dataset, I need to remember to update the other datasets. Of course I don't always remember to do that!
Is there a way to create a dataset in a single location and then share it? I was thinking of using a View but I don't think it'll accept the parameters.
I've been cutting & pasting the entire query as I make change but I'm afraid it'll mess that up or forget to update a dataset.
How do you do it?
Any suggestions you have would be helpful.
Rob
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Apr 23, 2007
Hi,
I am building reports using Sql Server 2005 Reporting Services. I have to build more than 20 reports. I felt it is tedious to format each report individually. Is there a way to include external style sheets in reports?
Thanks in advance for your help!
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Below is a code snippet showing what I have so far.
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Sep 17, 2004
Hey guys,
I have a quick question about SQL 2000 server data sharing.
I am currently using SQL 2000 Server Enterprise and I need to do synchronous data sharing with flat files. I have an ODBC connection to the files. I was able to easily share this data by using linking in Microsoft Access, however, for the life of me I cannot figure out how to do the same in SQL. We are in the process of converting legacy code. The old code will of course be communicating with the flat files and the new code will be talking to SQL server. So it is vital that the 2 access methods are both pulling the same data. Does anyone have any ideas???
Help would be greatly appreciated
Thanks
Dax
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i have sql sever 2000 installed on my PC which i would like to share on network.
when i am trying to create ODBC connection from other pcs on network i am getting error -- specified sql server not found.
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Jul 11, 2006
Can you use SQL Express remotely instead of locally.
I have been told that I might be able to use SQL Express as my network server for sharing files. Is this possible, or do I need a different version of SQL to do this?
I have been reading the VBE forums and from what I gathered was that SQL Express is only for a local table only, is this true?
If not, what is the work around, and how do I go to another pc to find out if it is sharable?
I would hate to get several months in my app design and learn that I was headed in the wrong direction.
Thanks
David
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Feb 6, 2004
How can I share stored procedures so I can call them form different databases ?
Basically, all databases have identical table names and structure but containing different data and I don't want to replicate all stored procedures on every database. There are too many and will also be very unpractical to maintain the code.
Thanks,
Moshe
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Jan 2, 2006
Hi :)
I would like to know if it is possible to link two databases together
(in my case ASPNETDB, and another mdf database) so that I can run
queries on those shared tables. For example, I would like to use the
uniqueidentifiers from the ASPNETDB tables in my own tables.
Thank you!
(I do use the latest version of Visual Web Developer).
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Apr 17, 2007
I am writing a DB-driven application, using Visual Studio. I have a database that i want to be able to move from one computer to another, and still be able to access it. It's probably something simple, but I must be missing out something.
The problem is that if i choose windows authentication, then the DB cannot be used on another computer. I also had no luck when using SQL Authentication.
How can this be done? What form of authentication should be used and how, so that I can just copy my DB from one computer to another, then log into the DB using a username and password?
*Any* help would be greatly appreciated!
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Jul 20, 2005
Hi:I'm trying to setup a MS Cluster but I don't know if it is feasible toconfigure it in the way I think.I have two machines with win2k server and MSSQL-2000 one of them iscurrently performing as the production database and the other one isthe backup. The secondary one is keeping updated via the "LogShipping" technic.We almost covered all the other possible failures of the othercomponents (ie: network, power, application servers, etc), the data ismaintaned in a raid which is ok but we want to cover also thepossibility of that failure too (yes, you can call us paranoids!! ).The thing is we want to create a cluster that do not share the data,but each machine of the cluster have thei own set of the same data.My intention is to configure the cluster to detect a failure of onemachine and initiate the failover to the remaing one using theappropiate scripts related to the promotion of a secondary serverkeeped updateusing "log shipping".Have anyone some experience with that kind of solution ??Thanks in advanceLeonardo
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Jun 24, 2005
How can I apply a style sheet "style.css" to a .rdl file (a report in Reporting Services)?
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Feb 24, 2007
Hai,
" When connecting to the server with a pre-4.1 client program, use an account that still has a pre-4.1-style password. Reset the password to a pre-4.1 style for each who must use a pre-4.1 client program."
What is "pre-4.1-style password"? Can you give an example for a "pre-4.1-style password"?
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Feb 21, 2008
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Sep 27, 2006
Hi guys,I've got two apps that are going to have pretty much the same users and i wanted them to have the same ASPNET.MDF user database. Is it possible to store the ASPNET.MDF in a different location and then have the two apps access it from there or alternatively have it in the App_Data folder of one of the apps and then have the second app access it from there?Thanx
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Feb 7, 2007
Hi;
I have an ASP.NET application with a SQL Express database.Here is the connection string used on the web application:"Data Source=.SQLEXPRESS;AttachDbFilename=|DataDirectory|admindata.mdf;Integrated Security=True;User Instance=True" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient"
Now, i create a Windows application which will run on the server to perform some scheduled tasks, for the Windows application I used this connection string:"Data Source=.SQLEXPRESS;AttachDbFilename=D:WebSitesmywebsite.comwwwApp_Dataadmindata.mdf;Integrated Security=True;User Instance=True"The problem is, when the web site is running and using the database, the windows application can't connect to the database and i don't know where i'm doing wrong, if it's the web application connection string or, if it's the windows application connection string.
I hope someone had the same experience and can point me to a direction.
Thank you;Emerson Brito
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Does 7.0 allow multiple databases to share a data file/log file?
Will a large data device file shared by 10-25 databases present any problems?
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Nov 15, 1999
Would someone please tell my how to share the same NT Login on a Publisher and a Subscriber Server. For example, one of
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Subscription Servers should share the same SQL Executive account. I tried
doing this in Control Panel, Services Applet, Startup, and This Account Box. The Subscribing Server is not allowing me to map the login of the Publishing Server. I also tried within NT User Manager for Domains. I am not able to figure this out. I am trying to get Replication to work within a Workgroup on two NT 4.0 Servers SP3, with SQL Server 6.5 SP5a.
Thanks, Kevin
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Sep 27, 2005
Hello -- Please excuse my extreme newbieness -- trying to get up to speed fast on SQL Server Express for work. I've been able to set up the software, create a database, and access it with no problems on my local computer, but I need to make the database available to other computers in my workgroup. I followed instructions -- enabled TCP/IP and Named Pipes and turned on SQL Server Browser, and I was actually able to manipulate one system database (the "master" database) from another computer but not any other databases, not even the other system databases. I can connect to any of the databases with the SQLCMD commands, but if I try to do any SELECT commands (other than in "master") I get an error: "SELECT permission denied on object '[MyTable]', database '[MyDatabase]', schema 'dbo'". I was only able to get into "master" after adding "guest" as a user, but adding this user to the other databases has no effect. One interesting thing: When I used the sp_table_privileges command on each database, all but "master" showed all privileges being granted to and from "dbo", but "master" didn't show anything being granted to or from anybody. Does anyone know what could be going on here? Am I missing something obvious? Thanks for any and all help!
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May 31, 2007
I have read a number of threads in this forum concerning SSIS packages and Protection Level. I regret to say that I did not manage to find one that covers the problem I am experiencing.
I have saved a package that contains a SQL Server Authentication login and password. In Properties for the Package I have set
ProtectionLevel = EncryptSensitiveWithPassword
I then save my Package and use F5 to run it in Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition. It runs just fine.
I then walk over to a co-worker's desk, have him "Get Latest Version" in Source Control Explorer, and then have him double-click on the SSIS Package. It indicates that he must enter the password, which we do, and then it begins validation of the package. By changing to EncryptSensitiveWithPassword (instead of EncryptSensitiveWithUserKey) many of the earlier error messages went away.
We still get one fatal error, though, which prevents him from pressing F5 to run the package on his PC. The error message is one reported in some other threads in this forum:
Error loading PackageName(C2097).dtsx: Failed to decrypt protected XML node "DTSassword" with error 0x8009000B "Key not valid for use in specified state.". You may not be authorized to access this information. This error occurs when there is a cryptographic error. Verify that the correct key is available.
Naturally we are running this on a computer different from the one on which the package was created/last-saved, and running with a different Windows user.
The package is a fairly simple one: it merely copies a few dozen tables from Access to SQL Server 2005 on a central server.
Might the error message be related to the Access connection? (He has the same rights to the Access database that I do, but those are based on Windows Authentication -- which makes me wonder if that might be the problem. The Access database is located on a central server, and the access rights are controlled through User Groups in the Windows File System.)
I would like for others to be able to run this and other SSIS packages I have developed.
Ultimately we would like to store completed SSIS packages in the File System (rather than in SQL Server 2005), and allow anyone in our team, who knows the password(s) for the packages, to run them without difficulty.
Is this possible?
Dan
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Mar 7, 2007
Ok, I understand it is possible, but I still can't quite get the mechanics of it to work.
I create a new BIDS project, and add a package to it, and add 3
connection managers, and set the server, instance, DB, etc. for SQL
connections. I change the name of each connection manager so the server
name is not there, but use something more like a generic name of what
the database is. Fine. I right click in the Control Flow area and go to
configurations. I enable configurations, and save to a common place on
the C drive. Save everything, exit, VS, fine, and I export all
connection managers properties.
Then I start Visual Studio again. Create another new BIDS project, add
a package to it, and add 3 connection managers. I don't actually
connect them, but use those same generic names from the first
iteration. I enable configurations for the package. I am somewhat
expecting to see the connections change from the same-o-default to the
data I used in the first go around.
I am obviously missing something big here.
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Apr 17, 2008
Hello,
We have a couple of databases set up, and we replicate data from certain tables between the two database. One of the tables we replicate is the Users table, in which we'd like to encrypt user passwords. Initially I created a certificate on both servers, and found that I could not DecryptByCert a password that was encrypted on the other server, and vice versa. It looks like all I was forgetting to do with supply a 'ENCRYPTION BY PASSWORD = ' parameter to CREATE CERTIFICATE. So, now I have the following:
CREATE CERTIFICATE Cert_UserPassword
ENCRYPTION BY PASSWORD = 'pGFD4bb925DGvbd2439587y'
WITH SUBJECT ='TestingCertificate'
I ran that query on both of our servers, and I find I am able to decrypt the password on both servers. So, as far as I can tell, this is exactly the way I want it to work.
So, now for the question: Is this the right way to go about it? In order to decrypt the password on either server, it means I need to pass the 'pGFD4bb925DGvbd2439587y' password to the DecryptByCert command, which doesn't seem very secure. But if I don't use the 'ENCRYPTION BY PASSWORD', then the cert will be signed by the Master key, which is different on both servers, which will result in a certificate that can't decrypt what was encrypted on the other server.
Is there a way to take the actual certificate on one server, and export it to the other server, so that they're both using the exact same certificate to encrypt and decrypt? I would like to not have the password included in the Decryption command, if I can help it.
Thanks.
-Dan
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Nov 29, 2007
We receive data files from different external customers, and these files have identical layouts.
I'm planning to set up a package for each customer. Each package will contain a flat file source -> OLEDB transformation dataflow, (followed by other customer-specific data flows).
What I'd like to do is just create this dataflow once, parameterising the flat file and table names. Is it possible to include this dataflow in each customer package so that if the flat file layout changes, I can just modify the connection managers in the one place, and then recompile each package to pick up the changes?
Any advice appreciated.
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Jan 22, 2007
Hello,
I'm using an XML file to configure my dataBase connection string. I try to deploy my package on a new server and it works perfectly.
Then I made a second package which also need a configuration for the dataBase connection string. (I made the connection with the connection manager inside packages). The configuration is the same that for my first package, so I thought to use the same configuration file.
I can use the same configuration file but the problem is when I try to generate a deployment for my solution. I got an error which tell me that the xxx.dtsConfig file already exist and can not be copy again.
When I made the configuration in the second package I said that I want to reuse the file ... and I thought that for the deployment SSIS would know that it has to include that file only once ...
Did somebody already have this problem ?
Thanks !
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Mar 6, 2007
The scenario is an ETL that takes flat file feeds via FTP to move data into varous production SQL server databases nightly.
There are a number of packages involved, and this depends upon the type of data being sent.
There are a set number of servers and databases to receive the
transformed data. I would like to be able to define say 3 servers, and
maybe a couple of databases in each one time in the configuration. For
simplicity lets say 6 databases total. I would like a single point of
maintenance for these 6 locations. I would like all connection managers
in all packages in all solutions to share these 6 settings in all
connection managers. Is this possible? From my initial attempts, it
would appear each package gets its own independent list of connection
managers and which must be configured separately. I don't see how to
share settings, which is really where the power of SSIS configurations
would be.
Similarly, I would like to be able to locate flat files at given paths.
The package may know the name of the file it is looking for, or the
file it will create, and the folder path needs to be computed from a
configured folder root, and for the package connection manager to store
only the name of the file, which never changes.
I can not see how to set something like this up with connection
managers and configurations. Perhaps I still need a highly customized
solution to achieve this, as we did for DTS, where we would only
execute packages using our own executor, which would load the package,
search out all environment specific settings and modify them on the fly
prior to executing the package.
Thanks for any direction you can give here. The books I've read seem to
imply I might be able to do what I need here, but I can't seem to find
the mechanics of making it happen.
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Apr 21, 2006
MySQL allowed INSERT statements that looked like this:
INSERT INTO Table SET col1 = value1, col2 = value2, col3 = value3
Basically this closely matched the format of the UPDATE statements.
Here is why this was good: I could do something like this: if (RecordExists == false) {
SQLquery = "INSERT INTO Table SET ";
} else {
SQLquery = "UPDATE Table SET ";
}
SQLquery += "col1 = value1, ";
SQLquery += "col2 = value2, ";
SQLquery += "col3 = value3, ";
SQLquery += "col4 = value4 ";
if (RecordExists == true) {
SQLquery += "WHERE id = " + ourID;
}
If I had a good 50 columns then it means I can reuse a sizable chunk of code for both INSERT and UPDATE statements (since both use the same general format). Whereas if I have to use "INSERT INTO Table(columns) VALUES (values)" then I'm look at duplicating a lot of code.
Does MS-SQL support something similar to "INSERT INTO SET"? How are others dealing with this?
Thanks,
Gabe----------------------
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Jan 19, 2006
Hi,
If the datetime value is '20.01.2006', what will be the style in CONVERT function ?
Eg : select convert(datetime, '20.01.2006') gives datetime out-of-range error.
There is no style provided for dd.mm.yyyy in SQL Server documentation. Is there any way to do such conversion with this constant value of format dd.mm.yyyy ?
Please advice,
Thanks,
MiraJ
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Jun 11, 2007
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Jul 20, 2005
Hello, I'm looking for a little input on this situation.I'm working on an inventory system and was thinking that I'd like tobuild it similiar to the way a bank keeps track of your funds.If you look at at bank statement, for each line item, you'll normallysee at least date/time, description, amount (plus or minus value), andbalance.In my inventory system, the amount and balance would be a count of theitems used or transferred instead of money.Does this sound reasonable? Or is there a better design? I am planningto connect the inventory system to a few different ordering interfaces,and I think it would work well if I can dump transactions into theinventory instead of incrementing and decrementing counts.The only problem I see with this, is if I want to implement the balancepart of it with each record....I can't think of a way to do that currently.I can certainly use a trigger in the database to retrieve the mostrecent transaction and update the balance field for one record insertedat a time, but if a list of transactions is dumped into the inventorysystem at once, I'd have to compensate for that in the trigger.Ideas?*** Sent via Developersdex http://www.developersdex.com ***Don't just participate in USENET...get rewarded for it!
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