SSRS on Andy M Mallon - AM²

Customizing SSRS Sender Address

Mon, 06 Feb 2017 20:19:43 -0500

In SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), you can configure the sender address for email subscriptions at the instance level. This means that every email sent from your SSRS server will come from the same address. (On each subscription, you can optionally supply a Reply-To address, which allows users to reply to the email directly, and respond to the right person…but that’s not why we’re here.)

Moving SSRS Reports between servers

Wed, 29 Jun 2016 12:30:42 -0400

Today, my friend Derik Hammer (blog|twitter) asked about moving SSRS reports between (versions and) instances of SSRS:

What is the best way to move 2008 R2 SSRS reports into an existing 2012 SSRS instance? Catalog move is insufficient here. #sqlhelp

This reminded me of a PowerShell script I wrote a few years back, so I’m dusting it off for this blog post. I’m far from a PowerShell Pro, but I think this will be helpful to other people

What's the deal with transactions in a stored procedure called by an SSRS report?

Tue, 01 Mar 2016 23:00:41 -0500

Question

Consider the following:

CREATE PROCEDURE dbo.usp_trantest AS
SELECT @@TRANCOUNT as trancount;
GO

When I call usp_trantest manually from within SSMS, the trancount is 0. If I run an SSRS report that contains a dataset that queries the same stored procedure, the trancount is logged as 1.

How to pass SSRS params into a URL

Sat, 10 Oct 2015 14:39:36 -0400

Question

I have Native SSRS configured on a 2012 instance (11.0.2100). I have two reports with images that act as buttons to toggle between the chart report and the detail report. I want to configure the action URLs to dynamically pass in parameters when switching between the reports, so that the defaults (derived from a query) are not used when switching views, the manually inputted params would persist.