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Microsoft SSRS, Problem solving

Keep your SSRS ExecutionLog more than 60 days

| Rafael Martins Cardoso

Hello,

Welcome back! As 2017 begins, things are going to change around here. A new challenge has arrived, #22posts12months. I will try to keep posts shorter and objective. I will publish every 15 days. Keep me updated on how it all works for you!

ExecutionLogDaysKept

Probably you didn’t noticed yet but if you try to collect usage information for our Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services (execution log), by default Reporting Services instance will only keep the most recent 60 days in the execution log . Even though the server had been running a good deal longer than that!

Parameter: ExecutionLogDaysKept

The number of days to keep report execution information in the execution log. Valid values for this property include 0 through 2,147,483,647. If the value is 0 entries are not deleted from the Execution Log table. The default value is 60.

Source: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb934303(v=sql.105).aspx

How to keep them then?

There’re 2 ways to do this: (1) through Server Properties page or (2) a SQL statement.  Continue reading “Keep your SSRS ExecutionLog more than 60 days” →

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Create your database sample from a excel file using deltasqltool

Hi guys,

 

Did you ever think about how you can have a sample data to start build your ETL in meantime you don’t have access to the database?

Imagine the following scenario,

You’re a Europe(an) database administrator and you have received new requirements to build a new report. You found that the required data is located at China and your connection is actually strictly limited due security restrictions on both countries.

The integration will be something as I illustrate on the below figure.

 

DiagramTransferDataDBs

Continue reading “Create your database sample from a excel file using deltasqltool” →

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Microsoft SSRS, Problem solving

Excel found unreadable content when exporting a SSRS report

| Rafael Martins Cardoso

Hi guys,

I ran into a strange bug in Visual Studio when I was developing a new report to track the effort of each team member. Noticed that “description” field on the incidents was containing an invalid ASCII symbol,called “VT”. Imagine field “description” as a field available on a random ITIL platform where the users enters the full incident description.

Continue reading “Excel found unreadable content when exporting a SSRS report” →

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