Adhoc Reporting

Couple of Questions regarding Reporting Services
1) Does SQL Server Reporting Services support adhoc reporting like dynamic
generation of report files rather than basing it on a template rdl
2) How long does it take to do a manual conversion of Crystal report with
say sub reports and say 30 formula fields and 4 paramters?
Thanks in Advance,
RdjeethRdjeeth,
1) Version 1.0 of RS doesn't support ad-hoc reporting features. However, the
next version of RS will come with a Report Builder which will support
comprehensive ad-hoc functionality. I've seen a short demo of the Report
Builder and I can say only good words about it. Meanwhile, you can evaluate
third-party products, such as the Cizer Quick Query.
2) Time will be in reverse proportion to your RS skills. As a side note,
instead of subreports you should gravitate towards using side-by-side
regions for performance reasons.
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Hope this helps.
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"RDJEETH" <RDJEETH@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Couple of Questions regarding Reporting Services
> 1) Does SQL Server Reporting Services support adhoc reporting like dynamic
> generation of report files rather than basing it on a template rdl
> 2) How long does it take to do a manual conversion of Crystal report with
> say sub reports and say 30 formula fields and 4 paramters?
> Thanks in Advance,
> Rdjeeth

Ad-hoc Report Generation Based on the Input Query!

Hi all,

I want to generate the ad-hoc report using SQL Reporting Services 2000 or SQL Reporting Services 2005. But the Database Server will be SQL Server 2000. So, Can I send the query at run-time and then attach the data source to the actual report. In this case there will not be any columns etc. at design time with the value field mentioned in it. I know this is not the requirement for which this report tool is developed for. But still if this is possible through some other way round then pls. let me know. Actually we want one generic report which will satisfy all the tables, with diff. conditions mentioned in the select clause and where clause. So, is this possible with this reporting tool? Is there any way out where we want to come up with only one such report by manipulating the datasource of the report at run-time? Pls. let me know.

Thanks & Regards,

Dipali.

There may be a better way to do this in 2005 but the way I acheived dynamic columns in 2000 was to have a maximum number of columns (say 20) that take the value Column01, Column02....Column20 and make sure your data source returns the values under those names. Then you can also pass in the column names as a parameter. That's the only way I could come up with for producing a completely dynamic report.sql