Azure Storage Type

Core storage services The Azure Storage platform includes the following data services: Azure Blobs: A massively scalable object store for text and binary data. Also includes support for big data analytics through Data Lake Storage Gen2. Azure Files: Managed file shares for cloud or on-premises deployments. Azure Queues: A messaging store for reliable messaging between... » read more

Remote Query Timeout

Now the common misconception with this option is probably because of the following screen within SQL Server Management Studio (Server Properties -> Connections) where we see the following. So the first checkbox allows remote connections to the server so we could assume that the remote query timeout value underneath (here set to 600, the default)... » read more

SQL Compare and Indexes

If need to include indexes during SQL compare, make sure the following boxes are unchecked in the “options” section… Ignore indexes Ignore performances indexes Adding Missing Index

Failed to load expression host assembly. Details: Could not load file or assembly or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified. (rsErrorLoadingExprHostAssembly)

Error: Got the following error after upgrading SSRS. Failed to load expression host assembly. Details: Could not load file xxxxxxx or assembly or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified. (rsErrorLoadingExprHostAssembly) Fix: For SQL Server 2014 to 2016, copy the missing dll to the new folder. From… C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSRS12.MSSQLSERVER\Reporting... » read more

SQL Server Jobs Permission

You can give your users rights to check if reports have run or jobs are complete without granting full admin rights. Here’s how you can do so by using SQLAgentReaderRole in SQL Server. If you have several SQL Agent jobs on your system, it is inevitable that at some point in some of your in-house... » read more

Microsoft Report Builder

Install Report Builder https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/reporting-services/install-windows/install-report-builder?view=sql-server-ver15

SSRS Semantic modeling language (SMDL)

Semantic Modeling Language (SMDL) SQL Server 2016+ SMDL models were deprecated as of the release of SQL Server 2014, the ability for them to function was still there. SSRS 2016 or later doesn’t support the Report Models feature. Uploading and managing report models is a discontinued feature on SQL Server 2016 (is no longer a... » read more

TDE Certificate Expiration and Replacement

A certificate used in TDE will continue to work even after its expiration date. This is because the Database Encryption Key (DEK) in the user database is the key that encrypts the data at rest. DEK is the symmetric key stored in the user database boot record. The certificate which is stored in the master... » read more

Retrieve SSRS RDL file from Database

You can get it from the Report Server Database. All the Reports deployed to the Server get stored in Catalog table in Binary data format and we need to convert it into XML file. And that XML file will be your actual Report. Use the following query to retrieve a list of SSRS reports with... » read more