I have a reporting services project with lots of reports developed in SQL server business intelligence development studio that comes with sql server 2008. I want to deploy these reports to a server that has reporting services 2005 only but the deployment is failing. I'm wondering if any one around here has been able to deploy reports developed in business intelligence development studio 2008 to a server running reporting services 2005 only.
If it isn't passible, is there a way of downgrading my report project back to reporting services 2005 so i can be able to deploy my reports?.
Unfortunately this is not currently possible.
The following thread contains a discussion from the MSDN forums pertaining to a similar query. If you read through it, you will discover that an MVP raised this as a development/support request with Mcrosoft.
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sqlreportingservices/thread/686cac48-bc14-4978-b7bf-acbc0c90384e/
Is it really that bad?
For going from 2005 -> 2000, you just had to strip a couple of lines of xml out of the rdl file.
Can't you do something similar? Assuming you don't use 08 specific things like Tablix
?
Microsoft, you don't know how huge of a pain in the butt this problem is. And we're left to find out about this incompatibility only after creating reports in VS 2008 and trying to run them on SQL Server 2005.
This is extremely poor product management on Microsoft's part.
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I have installed SQL Server with SQL Server management, but when I want to go to the Analysis server instance, there is no one.
I checked the SQL Server management but there is no Analysis Services process to enable.
I went to the SQL Server 2019 setup to add the Analysis server feature but it's not showing to install.
What can I do?
Solved.
I had to do a clean install.
The screen shot in this link shows "Analysis services"
But, since it is missing for you, I am guessing, you have selected an different edition of SQL Server 2019 setup (Web edition, may be ?).
If you using it as Developer, try the developer edition of SQL 2019 setup.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server/sql-server-downloads
I would like to use MS SQL Management Studio and Reporting Services, but I have a Macbook. Can I run SSMS with SSRS in Azure or AWS?
*Edited to not ask for a recommendation
SSMS(SSRS) only support Windows now.
I think you can think about using Azure Data Studio. Previously released under the preview name SQL Operations Studio, SQL Operations Studio tool can be a good option, it provides enough function like security, linked server and database manager, it is enough to use if you only use it for development.
Hope this helps.
I'm currently in the process of coming up with our upgrade plan for our migration from SQL Server 2005 to SQL Server 2012, and some of our business units still use ProClarity.
I'm aware that this is essentially a "dead" application; where Microsoft isn't upgrading it anymore, and it's scheduled to be EOL'ed in the future.
After googling and digging around on Microsoft's forums, I still can't come up with a definitive answer as to whether the 2012 upgrade will be incompatible with Proclarity. (Business users are on 6.2; which is one minor revision behind)
Has anybody tried this out and been successful? Would we need to keep this portion of the BI tools on SQL Server 2008?
Upgrade was successful, and the users were able to connect to 2012 Analysis Services using ProClarity
I've been trying to work out whether it's possible to manage (i.e. add tables, modify them, create stored procedures) a SQL Azure database using some kind of GUI like SSMS and I keep coming up against different answers.
I found a post from the end of 2009 saying that it would be supported in SSMS but I'm not sure if that includes the Express version? Does anybody know what the most recent update of the express version is and whether it supports it?
I think I'm right in saying that it can't be done in Visual Web Developer 2010 (and I can't afford the full fat VS2010).
I'm prepared to consider alternatives though if anybody knows any full features GUI tools that work with SQL azure and I don't mind paying for a commercial license if it's not too expensive.
Thanks.
Yes, SQL Server 2008 R2's Management Studio does support working with SQL Azure databases.
See:
Getting Started with SQL Azure Development
There are a couple of options
1) You can use SSMS (get the free version by downloading SQL Express v2008 or greater) with advanced services. This will give you SSMS. You can then connect to SQL Azure using SSMS. However - there is a limited set of functionality available via this tool.
2) You can use SSDT (stand-alone for free) or from within VS2010 SP1 or greater. Again, you can connect to SQL Azure, but there are some restrictions on what you can do.
I am using the SQL Express on AWS RDS (free usage tier) myself lately (and connecting via SSMS or SSDT). I prefer their implementation of SQL Server in the cloud to Microsoft's implementation of SQL Azure.
I am going to use SSRS to generate report for my website.
Scenario:
I have 2 servers, Application server & Database Server.
I want to have reports(.rdl files) sitting on Application server(IIS) accessing data on SQL server(Database Server)
In order to fulfil these requirement I require to install SQL server 2k5 on my Application server just for having SQL server reporting service. So I am just waisting one of licence of SQL server by installing that on Application server.
Is anyone having any idea how to install only reporting service with SQL server 2k5??
In order to have Reporting Services on your Application server, you would have to use a SQL license. You can install just the Reporting Services section of SQL Server, but it is still technically part of the SQL Server application and requires a license for use on that processor(s).If that is a huge issue, then I would have to recommend keeping the Reporting Services section installed with the rest of the database installation on your Data server.
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/prodinfo/previousversions/rs/howtolicensers.mspx
The server components of SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services include the Report Server and the Report Server Database. The Report Server processes and renders reports, and handles scheduled events and report delivery. The Report Server Database stores report definitions, report metadata, subscription information, and so on. Each Report Server requires either a local or remote connection to a Report Server Database. To use any of these components, each computer on which the Report Server and the Report Server Database are installed must have a valid SQL Server 2000 license.
You could install SQL Server Express on the application server.
It's free, and there's an edition which comes with Reporting Services.
In comparison with the "real" editions, SQL Server Express Edition is limited concerning how much CPU and RAM it can use, but it will probably be fast enough to run your reports.
blatantly incorrect. You do not need a SQL Server license to use SQL Server Reporting Services, you can use SQL Server Express edition. I've use SQL Server Express Edition in addition to linked servers-- to query stuff on -ANY- database server. And it works great.
SSRS is a great platform, I Just hate it when people run around saying that you NEED a license to use it. I'll bet that guy works for Oracle corp!
You do have an alternative. You can embed reports directly into your code projects in .Net. In this case the report runs through the Microsoft.Reporting.WinForms and Microsoft.Reporting.WebForms namespaces, ReportViewer object. Each report will have a ".rdlc" extension instead of ".rdl", though the two files types are actually equivalent. There is an ASP.Net version of the ReportViewer that allows you to integrate these reports into your website. You just need to drag the ReportViewer control from the toolbox into your website to configure it. For more information, see the MSDN overview of ReportViewer Controls.
If you dont want to use a whole license you can always use reportviewer. Just so I dont put too much answer out here, the big site for this is gotreportviewer.com.
The reportviewer control does the work of the reporting services server when it comes to the generation of reports. RDL files are like xml files and dont do much until they are interpreted. If you embed the reportviewer in your application on the web the work will be done on the user side. It is simialar to microsofts xps format, it has to be interpreted.
If you don't want to create an application for your reports the new version of sql2008 with advanced controls allows you to install a free version of reporting services. It doesnt have all of the goodies but it works for simple deployments.