URL passed settings in Reporting Serviceshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/url-passed-settings-in-reporting-services.html

11 February 2011 toolbar using the URL as I didn't find this clear on the net. Tried it and it didn't work. That's because I was using the Reporting Manager URL rather than the Reporting Server URL. Note: Change "" to the name of your Reporting Server Change...

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

Accessing a MySQL Database with Business Intelligence Development Studiohttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/accessing-a-mysql-database-with-business-intelligence-development-studio.html

05 January 2011 Development Studio 2008 Test/Sample MySQL Database to connect to (server and username + password). Admin Access to the reporting server if you plan on deploying the report to it. Scenario: We want to report on a MySQL database MySQL login information is...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: MySQL
• Language: en-GB

Alternate row background colour in Reporting Serviceshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/alternate-row-background-colour-in-reporting-services.html

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/articles/microsoft/ssrs/ssrs-external-images-dont-display.html

19 September 2011 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 photos. These...

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

SSRS Parameters in Oracle Stored Procedurehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/ssrs-parameters-in-oracle-stored-procedure.html

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/articles/microsoft/ssrs/ssrs-repeat-headers-in-pdf-report.html

26 October 2011 the whole report (despite spanning 10 pages when printed) is on the same page. The same happens when I run this on the Reporting Server. My Setup - XP Workstation - Business Intelligence Development Studio 2008 (BIDS) - SQL Server Reporting Services...

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

SSRS No Delay for First Report of the Dayhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/ssrs-no-delay-for-first-report-of-the-day.html

11 April 2014 This article describes a solution our reporting server administrators found to cut the loading time of the first report of the day. Why? Take any SSRS report, if one of us was the first to run it on that day, it would take an additional 60 seconds to...

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

SQL Server Reporting Serviceshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs.html

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SSRS Querying on either of 2 Parametershttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/ssrs-querying-on-either-of-2-parameters.html

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...

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

How to Display Report Execution Time in SSRS (milliseconds)https://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/how-to-display-report-execution-time-in-ssrs.html

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...

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

Performance Report - Background colors based on dataset valueshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/green-red-background-colors-based-on-dataset-values.html

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

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

16 January 2012 as 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...

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

Returning Oracle Stored Procedure Resultset in SSRShttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/returning-oracle-stored-procedure-resultset-in-ssrs.html

19 January 2012 a 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...

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

SSRS Stop Scrolling Behindhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/ssrs-stop-scrolling-behind.html

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...

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

Reminder on SSRS row separatorhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/reminder-on-ssrs-row-seperator.html

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

This file contains HTML or script code that may be erroneously interpreted by a web browserhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/html/this-file-contains-html-or-script-code-that-may-be-erroneously-interpreted-by-a-web-browser.html

08 October 2009 you'll need to debug. Put the following code at the beginning of your LocalSettings.php file: # for debug purposes error_reporting(E_ALL); ini_set("display_errors", 1); $wgShowExceptionDetails = true; $wgShowSQLErrors = true; $wgDebugDumpSql = true;...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Hypertext Markup Language
• Language: en-GB

Report Builder 2.0 - Hide Series1https://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/report-builder-20-hide-series1.html

06 May 2010 Name Incident Type The objective of this article is to explain how to hide "Series1" from appearing in your SQL Server Reporting Service (SSRS) report. I am guessing that Series1 is the data series from an outer join where the joining index value is...

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

Error during processing - Converting Date/Timehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/t-sql/error-during-processing-converting-datetime.html

13 July 2010 as my day job wants us to use Business Intelligence Development Studio for all our SQL Server Analysis Service (SSAS) and Reporting Service (SSRS) projects/solutions. The features and interface are very similar when developing reports though. The error...

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

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

06 January 2011 format (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.

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

Parameters not being used in report processinghttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/parameters-not-being-used-in-report-processing.html

07 January 2011 SET DATEFORMAT dmy returns the date in European format irrespective of the regional settings of either the client or the reporting server. Removed @GivenDate datetime, from the SQL script Removed @GivenCampus varchar(100) from the SQL script

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