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SSRS 2012 Export to Excel Footer bug

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 13:38:09 +0100

So I recently upgraded my companies SQL servers to SQL 2012...
Thus far we are loving it, without changing any code, we are seeing some dramatic speed increases.

Although, we ran into an issue with SSRS when trying to export to the report to Excel. It turns out there is a bug with the footer and exporting to Excel.

J Gooding found a workaround to this problem, found here. This link is to the connect submission, so please vote to get this fixed.

In synopsis, if you have a text box in the footer of the report that contains more than 74 characters, the report will fail to render on export to Excel, while all other export formats work fine. The work-around is to put the text in an image and then the export works fine (although the footer image will not be in the export)

It's been awhile, but...

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:48:35 +0100

I found out about an extremely handy tool that will save you tons of time.

It's called AutoHotKey, and it is superb for instant auto correction when for misspellings, but the real power that I think it provides is for programming.

For example, the SQL developers out there have heard of SQL Prompt, but it's a little pricey for personal use, but with AutoHotKey, you can simple little scripts to perform the same "snippets" found in the aforementioned product.

You can add ::ssf::SELECT * FROM

and every time you are in SSMS and type SELECT * FROM then a space you will get SELECT * FROM
This is also great for long Database names. At my previous employer we a database with a fairly long, such as
DatabaseWithReallyLongNameVersion2, which with AutoHotKey you could then create an alias (I know you can do this in SSMS, but not every is allowed to) so that every time you type DB2 you get the database name.

::DB2::DatabaseWithReallyLongNameVersion2

Hope this helps someone else.

SQL Pagination

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:38:16 +0100

Here is a great article on paging in SQL 2005, I knew about the Row_Number() function but not the Rank() or Dense_Rank().