Whenever you create a new Subscription in Sql server reporting services, a new job is created under the Sql agent as shown in the figure below.
You can use the msdb.dbo.sp_start_job procedure to start the job. In SSIS create a new SQL task and run the job wherever required
exec msdb.dbo.sp_start_job @job_name = ‘JobName’
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One good feature in SQL server Reporting Services is ToolTip . It is a simple feature but has more advantages if you want to show the complete information in a report. Its a great way of saving some Reporting space.I use it when Designing Dashboards or if you want add the redundant columns like the [...]
Problem:
A Business User wants to update/insert/delete the values in a table that sits in the metadata of the Datawarehouse on a regular basis. Based on these values numerous calculations will be done in the warehouse which generates a data driven Report on a weekly basis.
Initially I got the following Solutions
1. Create a frontend app [...]
Recently I have been checking all the Dependencies on the Reports in SSRS(Sql server Reporting Services) because of a Major deployment on the ETL. The ETL change was to accomodate the transfer of a few columns from old Table TableA to the new table TableB. Some of the Datasets in the Reports are Stored Procedures [...]
Many Clients have varied Requirements for Dates. You can do the conversions in Date format using T-SQL from the following link in MSDN.
In reporting services you can convert datetime using the customs visual basic datetime formats using Expressions.
Here are the following links on MSDN for Visual Basic Datetime Formats
Predefined DateTime Formats
Using Format Function
If the sql server reporting services is configured on the server called “SQLBOX” then the URL is http://SQLbox/reports.
If there is a named instance like SQLBOX\VIVEK then the reporting server URL is http://SQLBOX/reports_vivek