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

19 January 2012 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 partially documented. So...

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

SSRS Retrieving Oracle Stored Procedure Success or ErrorLevelhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/ssrs-retrieving-oracle-stored-procedure-success-or-errorlevel.html

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...

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

SSRS External Images don't displayhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/ssrs-external-images-dont-display.html

19 September 2011 Our Setup Windows XP Workstation Business Intelligence Development Studio 2008 (BIDS) SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Server (SSRS) running on Windows Server 2003 Team Foundation Server 2010 (TFS) Problem #1: Image does not appear within SSRS When...

• 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 to develop a Reporting solution on a Windows XP workstation. We are connecting to a SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Service (SSRS) with Team Foundation Server 2010. The database with our stored procedure is Oracle 10g. The Stored Procedure Rather than a...

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

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

SSRS Redirect after a report is runhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/ssrs-redirect-after-a-report-is-run.html

12 August 2011 (requires change to ASP pages on the ReportingServer, ie. affects all reports on that server). Method #3 Use ASP instead of SSRS. Method #4 Use a TimeInterval refreshing the page after a certain time. Conclusion In the end, this came down to a design...

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

SSRS Dropdown parameter cannot be blank!https://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/ssrs-dropdown-to-allow-blank-values.html

14 December 2011 I have created an SSRS report which can compare 4 reports side by side and brings up their latest execution times to the nearest millisecond. The report has 4 parameters. Each parameter is a dropdown populated by a list of all available reports. Why? I...

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

SSRS Hide results table if emptyhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/ssrs-hide-results-table-if-empty.html

29 March 2011 through combining Transact-SQL and MDX expressions" but boy what a mouthful, and it's not really iterating anymore. So it's "SSRS Hide results table if empty" though I will add that if you wanted to put a message instead of hiding the table then...

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

SSRS / MDX Date Querieshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/ssrs-mdx-date-queries.html

03 August 2011 I find myself using date ranges endlessly as I've been working in SSRS. The below is derived from a collection of various sources across the web as well as some of my own. These are what worked in my environment: WinXP, BIDS (vs2008), TFS (vs2010), SSRS...

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

SSRS AlphaNumeric Parameter Validationhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/ssrs-alphanumeric-validation.html

07 November 2011 field value to use Report loads with changes based on returned value. The Gist Add database level parameter check Add IIF in SSRS to confirm Database Level AlphaNumeric Check You may have better ways to do this but here are my database level checks for...

• 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 FROM DUAL This may be just the time recorded that it took for the query which is somewhat the same thing for us as SSRS performance is always rubbish anyway. Here's a breakdown of the MDX expressions and how I tweaked each one to return the final...

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

Problem creating SSRS report subscriptionshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/problem-creating-ssrs-report-subscriptions.html

11 November 2013 A quick article on if you are trying to create a new subscription to a SQL Server Reporting Server (SSRS) report and you are getting a warning message similar to the following: Message from webpage Subscriptions cannot be created because the credentials...

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

SSRS Subscriptions cannot be createdhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/ssrs-subscriptions-cannot-be-created.html

22 November 2013 in images not in the report itself but referring to other systems holding the images), then please refer to my article on SSRS External Images don't display. The answer to this error is your report needs to use a datasource with the credentials stored,...

• Type: Article
• 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 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 get with it and display...

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

SSRS: Performance Improvements: SELECT TOPhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/ssrs-performance-improvements-select-top.html

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...

• 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

SSRS Templates in BIDS 2008https://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/ssrs-templates-in-bids-2008.html

01 April 2011 with template?) Remove objects unique to the report and leave elements for all reports. File > Save selected item as... For SSRS 2008: Save in the folder: "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio...

• 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 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" panel (see below...

• 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...

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

SSRS Border Problemhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/ssrs-border-problem.html

20 January 2014 A very quick note on why borders may be misbehaving in SSRS. This note corrects the situation at Design time. This is where you are trying to select a cell to have an outline border but then cells around it without a border. You may find that BIDS or...

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