sql server reporting services: Does Microsoft keep a previous version of the .rdl if you deploy a report in
Visual studio 2003? If so, how do you retrieve it?

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I'm not sure if I'm understanding you correctly; however, in terms of
on the server w/the Report Manager, not really. In terms of as part of
the development environment, you normally have the dependent data for
the report available in an rdl.data file. Of course, you might be able
to backup the ReportServer and ReportServerTempDB and be able to
preserve the previous reports that way. Hope this helps.

Regards,

Enrique Martinez
Sr. Software Consultant

RDL files only exist in the development environment. Deploying causes the
RDL file to be sent to the server where it is stored in the database. The
server does no versioning. You can always retrieve the current report from
the server (via Report Manager). What some people do for versioning is to
use a source control system with the rdl files.


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Bruce Loehle-Conger
MVP SQL Server Reporting Services

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