Ad-hoc reporting memory consumption

Hi to all, on our project we are facing this problem: our users using report builder are making reports containing several Mb of data (sometimes also 1Gb!). Now it happens that when 3-4 users do a report like that on the server the process w3wp.exe reaches also 10 Gb of memory allocated and then the whole reporting services istance stops working.

We want to limit the number of rows that can be extracted from the sql server db using report builder. In the report model reference seems that there is not this kind of option (something like "max rowcount"). Is it possible to set this limit to the user that connects to sql server (something like: whatever is the query this user does, set @.@.rowcount to 10000)?

Thanks.

Alberto.

Hi Alberto,

We are currently facing your same issue. Did you get some solution to limit the rowcount on reportbuilder models? Thanks in advance for any ideas.

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Hi Cato, unluckly it seems that there isn't a good solution. Keep an eye on security filters on report models,this is the only thing that seems to "filter" data.

HTH.

Alberto