URL passed settings in Reporting Serviceshttps://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/url-passed-settings-in-reporting-services.html?catid=75&Itemid=165

11 February 2011 Further rendering options: MS Reporting Services Device Information Settings To specify the zoom configuration (defaults to 100%) http:///ReportServer/Pages/ReportViewer.aspx?%2fMYREPORTS%2fDemos%2fRB+Report+for+Me&rs:Command=Render &rc:Zoom=100% Note:...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
• Language: en-GB

Alternate row background colour in Reporting Serviceshttps://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/alternate-row-background-colour-in-reporting-services.html?catid=75&Itemid=165

04 February 2011 This is just a note for me as it took a while to find on the net and even then it was confusing as to why it works but it does. Not sure whether you call this an MDX Query or part of a Transact-SQL mashup. You need to go to "Fill" (of each text box in...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
• Language: *

SSRS External Images don't displayhttps://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/ssrs-external-images-dont-display.html?catid=75&Itemid=165

19 September 2011 The Situation We want some photos taken from another website of ours to display in our report. These are not stored locally on the Reporting Server because other services use these photos on our Intranet and we only want one location to upload the...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
• Language: *

SSRS No Delay for First Report of the Dayhttps://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/ssrs-no-delay-for-first-report-of-the-day.html?catid=75&Itemid=165

11 April 2014 administrators do this: On the server, open the XML file: C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSRS10.MSSQLSERVER\Reporting Services\ReportServer\RsReportServer.config Set the recycle time to 0: 0 Restart the SSRS service Source(s) Microsoft:...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
• Language: en-GB

SQL Server Reporting Serviceshttps://www.joellipman.com/component/content/category/articles/microsoft/ssrs.html?Itemid=165

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SSRS Parameters in Oracle Stored Procedurehttps://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/ssrs-parameters-in-oracle-stored-procedure.html?catid=75&Itemid=165

02 September 2011 an error when trying to add parameters to a Stored Procedure of an Oracle database from within Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services. The Error ORA-00911: invalid character ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_UTILITY", line 114 ORA-06512: at line 1...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
• Language: en-GB

SSRS Repeat Headers in PDF Reporthttps://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/ssrs-repeat-headers-in-pdf-report.html?catid=75&Itemid=165

26 October 2011 the Reporting Server. My Setup - XP Workstation - Business Intelligence Development Studio 2008 (BIDS) - SQL Server Reporting Services 2008 R2 (SSRS) - PDF generated to a Windows File Share The Fix Click on the down arrow icon near the "Column Groups"...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
• Language: en-GB

SSRS Querying on either of 2 Parametershttps://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/ssrs-querying-on-either-of-2-parameters.html?catid=75&Itemid=165

19 July 2011 situation is that we are replacing a website-application with a single SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS 2008 R2) report. We're using Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS VS2008) with Team Foundation Server (TFS VS2010) and connecting to an...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
• Language: en-GB

Returning Oracle Stored Procedure Resultset in SSRShttps://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/returning-oracle-stored-procedure-resultset-in-ssrs.html?catid=75&Itemid=165

19 January 2012 simple and complete example of getting a resultset from an Oracle stored procedure and displaying this in SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). Well "non-productive" more than "fun" as most of the examples on the net are either half-complete or...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
• Language: en-GB

Basic Oracle Stored Procedure Structurehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/else/database/oracle-pl-sql/basic-oracle-stored-procedure-structure.html

16 January 2012 a note for me to demo a working stored procedure and how to use cursors. I'm told I need to use this for SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) which is why I'm going down this route. For an even simpler stored procedure, I'd imagine you just get rid of...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Oracle PL/SQL
• Language: en-GB

Reminder on SSRS row separatorhttps://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/reminder-on-ssrs-row-seperator.html?catid=75&Itemid=165

26 October 2011 Setup XP SP3 Workstation Business Intelligence Development Studio 2008 (BIDS) SQL Server Reporting Services 2008 R2 (SSRS) What do I want? I have a report displaying room bookings. Each row lists the day, date, room name, start/finish times, booking...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
• Language: en-GB

How to Display Report Execution Time in SSRS (milliseconds)https://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/how-to-display-report-execution-time-in-ssrs.html?catid=75&Itemid=165

17 November 2011 to Display Report Execution Time in SQL Server Reporting Services 2008 R2 So there are other articles out there but I was looking to display in milliseconds the execution time it took for a particular report (which searches for results matching the...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
• Language: en-GB

Performance Report - Background colors based on dataset valueshttps://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/green-red-background-colors-based-on-dataset-values.html?catid=75&Itemid=165

02 December 2011 I've recently written a report for SQL Server Reporting Services 2008 R2 (SSRS) which will compare up to 4 reports and will compare the time taken for each one. The breakdown or what I was able to measure with the default installation are the times...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
• Language: en-GB

SSRS Stop Scrolling Behindhttps://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/ssrs-stop-scrolling-behind.html?catid=75&Itemid=165

08 April 2014 to: Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) 2008 R2 Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 Microsoft Business Intelligence Development Studio What? I recently revamped our standard report with a new template comprising of a single Tablix which contained...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
• Language: en-GB

SSRS Hide results table if emptyhttps://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/ssrs-hide-results-table-if-empty.html?catid=75&Itemid=165

29 March 2011 reliable if it's blank? The long way of doing this I would have called this article "Iteration within SQL Server Reporting Services Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS) version 2008 through combining Transact-SQL and MDX expressions" but boy...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
• Language: en-GB

SSRS Retrieving Oracle Stored Procedure Success or ErrorLevelhttps://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/ssrs-retrieving-oracle-stored-procedure-success-or-errorlevel.html?catid=75&Itemid=165

04 November 2011 We have a report in SQL Server Reporting Services 2008 R2 (SSRS) reading from an Oracle 10g database which works great and lists all the details on a specific student. An additional request is that there appears a link that will run a stored procedure...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
• Language: en-GB

SSRS Zero Paddinghttps://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/ssrs-zero-padding.html?catid=75&Itemid=165

10 November 2011 would need to be applicable within an MDX query. The Situation We have a database using Oracle 10g, and a SQL Server Reporting Services v2008 R2 environment. My use for this was when displaying an audit log displaying the oracle errors. Oracle Errors An...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
• Language: *

SSRS: Performance Improvements: SELECT TOPhttps://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/ssrs-performance-improvements-select-top.html?catid=75&Itemid=165

07 March 2014 This article details a method we used on a search form in a SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) environment. The requirement (amongst others) was that the report ran in less than a few seconds. Analyzing the report through the ReportServer databases...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
• Language: en-GB

Returned a data type that is not validhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/else/database/t-sql/returned-a-data-type-that-is-not-valid.html

06 January 2011 (such as Month name then year - eg. November 2010). I have been told that data types are a nightmare in SQL Server Reporting Services and that all data types should be kept in their original state and then queried in the same state.

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Transact-SQL
• Language: *

No rows returned in Oracle causes SP to failhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/else/database/oracle-pl-sql/no-rows-returned-in-oracle-causes-sp-to-fail.html

24 January 2012 using these as a subquery which has an empty result set. Furthermore I am using this stored procedure in a SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) environment and don't want to return any rows if there are no matches (not a blank row either) as one of my...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Oracle PL/SQL
• Language: en-GB