Could someone paste a link to a place where I could download the .pdf comparison between Crystal Reports and SQL Reporting Services that was done by Brian Bischof? His web site seems to be down and I really need this to help make up my mind. Thanks in advance. Jim...more >>

Does anyone know how to execute a stored procedure when a report is completed? Is there possibly an on report end event or something i can use perhaps? Any ideas? ...more >>

Come one guys how about a rich text or HTML text box in RS2005, this is a glaring omission. I know there are some workarounds, but for some items this is just necessary. How hard can this be? Lets consider an example. I have a report that I send out that is really quite complex. To help...more >>

Does anyone know, if you are inside the body of a report, of a way to have a textbox dynamically populated with the name of all the parameters that are on that report? So, the idea is, this textbox in the body of the report would have some expression, and that expression would always return...more >>

I think its possible (is it?) to read from appSettings in web.config from a custom assembly deployed to the ReportServer. What happens when you subscribe to the report or the report is rendered from the windows service and not through the web service or Report Manager? Does it read from the we...more >>

I have a function defined in Report->Report Properties-> Code Tab which I want to access the parameters collection to look for a Debug flag. I get the following error: c:\Reports\ReportMockup.rdl There is an error on line 4 of custom code: [BC30469] Reference to a non-shared member requires an...more >>

Hi, If I print the report (with header and footer defined in the report) from browser directly, report header and footer can not be printed properly, for example footer is printed in the middle of the page. But if i click the Print button from report maanger, it doesn't have such problem. I...more >>

I have a SBS Premium with SQL Server 2000 SP3, I try to install Reporting Services Std, and send a error "One does not find the point of entry of the procedure abort in the DLL msvcr71.dll". Anybody can help me plz... Thanks in advance, Grg...more >>

Hello all I realize that the first time you run a report from RS it's slow because it has to load everything up. Is there some way around this? Can I setup a report to refresh itself every so often? Anyway to turn this off? I hate the 30 second wait time to view the first report......more >>

Hi, We're looking to implement Reporting Services in our environment. We currently have a couple of high-end SQL Server boxes with relatively low usage. I'm considering installing Reporting Services on one of these SQL Server boxes or installing Reporting Services on another box isolated ...more >>

i'm trying to calculate a percent field with the following expression and getting the error message above: =IIF(Fields!valorPrevisto.Value = 0, 0, Fields!valorRealizado.Value / Fields!valorPrevisto.Value) what am i doing wrong ? thanks....more >>

I have a stored proc which accepts a date parameter as an int (YYYYMMDD) and which I do not want to change. I want to create a report which allows users to enter the date as a date and then convert this to the int format before passing it to the stored proc. I've already created the following ...more >>

Hello, I have a table containing an image with dynamic content. My dataset gives me a path to the image, now I can't be sure that the image actually exists in the file system so I check using File.Exists. This works fine on my development box but when I deploy it to my production environmen...more >>

Hi guys, I've set up a scheduled execution snapshots on a report; however, the snapshot could only be viewed once. After the snapshot file being created on rstempfiles directory, it cannot be acessed anymore. The error was 'Access to path "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\RSTempFiles\RSFi...more >>

Is it possible to filter report data dynamically (for example: FirstName like "Dim%") , when calling ReportService.Render method. If not then what are the other possible solutions? Thanks in advance....more >>

Dear All, I have problem while calling my report from report server using URL METHOD. we have config'red our reporting service using forms Authentication. (so we have login page) My problem is i have to call the report, using URL METHOD, by supressing that login page why becos, some...more >>

Hi all, We have been using RS for about 3 mos, and just this am when attempting to access the main web page we get an error message saying: The version of the report server database is either in a format that is not valid, or it cannot be read. The found version is 'C.0.6.51'. The expected...more >>