SSRS Configuration step by step(SQL SERVER REPORTING SERVICES)

Step1.Click Start->All Programs->Microsoft SQL Server->Configuration Tools->Reporting Service Configuration Manager.

Reporting service configuartion dialog box opens(Below Figure )

Step2.Specify the Server Name and report server instance.Click Connect buttton.

Reporting Service Configuaration Manager window opens to show the status of  current report server instance.

Step3.Select Service account tab from the left pane of RSCM window to open the service account page.

You can get an option choose service account by choosing the radio button in the above figuure and Click Apply Button.

Step4.Select the Web Service URl tab from the left pane of RSCM window to open the Web Service URL Page as shown in the below figure.

Configure URL to access the report server and also you can specify more than one URL to access the same Report Server.
Then Click Apply Button.

Step5.Select Database tab from the left pane of RSCM window to open the Database page as shown in the below figure.

Above figure shows the report server database and report server database credentials.Here we can able to sepcify a new database for the report server and can also change the credentials.

Step6.Select Report Manager URL tab from the left pane of the RSCM window to open the Report Manager URL page as shown in the below figure

Here we can configure a URL to access Report Manager.You can also specify multiple URLs for Report Manager by clicking the advanced button.

Step7.Email Account as per below figure allows us to configure the Email settings for a report server.Here we can able to specify an existing SMTP server and an email account for sending emails from that server.

Next Execution Account tab allows us to specify an account to enable us to use report datasources that do not require credentials.
This account allows to store external images used in reports.

Next Encryption Keys Tab allows us to backup,restore and change the symmetric key that is used by SSRS to encrypt credentials and connection strings stored in the report server database.

Finally Scale Out Deployment tab allows you to specify settings enables to multiple report servers to use a single,shared report server database.

Happy SSRS Configuration setup.

Three different ways to find blocking in SQL

SP_WHO2	It shows blocking by the presence of blkby column value.
Sysprocesses	select * from master..sysprocesses where blocked >0
Activity Monitor	Open Activity Monitor at any time by pressing CTRL+ALT A.

Difference between 3 types of Restoring modes.

S.No	With Recovery	With Norecovery	Standby\Readonly
1	Leave the database in online mode.	Leave the database in restoring mode.	Leave the database in  readonly mode.
2	No further restore is possible.	Further restore is possible.	Further restore is possible.
3	User can able to access	Users can’t.	Users can able to read the  databases.
4	Rollback the uncommitted transactions	Does not rollback the uncommitted transactions	It undoes uncommitted transactions , but saves the undo actions in a  standby file so that recovery effects  can be reverted.

Difference between database roles and server roles

S.No	Server Roles	Database Roles
1	It is defined at the server level.	It is defined at the database level.
2	It exists outside of user databases.	It exists in each database.
3	There are fixed server roles only.	User defined database roles available.
4	Bulkadmin,dbcreator,diskadmin, processadmin,securityadmin, serveradmin,setupadmin and sysadmin(8)	Db_accesadmin,db_backupoperator, db_datareader,db_datawriter, db_ddladmin,db_denydatareader, db_denydatawriter,db_owner and db_securityadmin(9)

Differences between SQL2000,SQL2005 and SQL2008.

S.No	SQL 2000	SQL2005	SQL2008
1	Query Analyzer and Enterprise Manager are separate.	Both are combined as SQL SERVER MANAGEMEN STUDIO.	Both are combined as SQL SERVER MANAGEMEN STUDIO.
2	No XML datatype is used.	XML datatype is introduced.	XML datatype is used.
3	65,535 databases can be created.	2(pow(20))-1 databases can be created.	2(pow(20))-1 databases can be created.
4	Nill	Exception handling	Exception handling
5	Nill	Varchar(Max) datatype	Varchar(Max) datatype
6	Nill	DDL Triggers	DDL Triggers
7	Nill	Database mirroring	Database mirroring
8	Nill	Row number function for paging use.	Row number function for paging use.
9	Nill	Table fragmentation	Table fragmentation
10	Nill	Full text search	Full text search
11	Nill	Bulk copy update	Bulk copy update
12	Nill	Can’t encrypt	Can encrypt entire database
13	Compression not possible	Can compress tables and indexes(introduced in 2005 SP2)	Can compress tables and indexes
14	Datetime is used for both date and time	Datetime is used for both date and time	Date and time are separately used for date and time datatype
15	Nill	Narchar(max) and varbinary(max) is used.	Narchar(max) and varbinary(max) is used.
16	Nill	Nill	Table datatype is introduced.
17	Nill	SSIS is used.	SSIS is used.
18	Nill	Nill	Central Management Server(CMS) is introduced.
19	Nill	Nill	Policy based management is available.

SQL2008 SP3 Error

Errors in SQL2008 SP3 installation and the troubleshooting steps.

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I got below error when I trying to install SQL2008 SP3 patch.

To resolve above error code 0x84B20002, we need to do follow steps:

1. We need to search the missing MSI original file (‘sql_engine_core_inst.msi’) from the SQL2008 software folder or CD.
2. Then copy the missed MSI file to ‘C:\Windows\Installer\’ path.
3. Rename the original file ‘sql_engine_core_inst.msi’ to 12c57ede.msi(missing file)  in the above mentioned path(Find missing file name from the error).
4. Next Rerun the SQL2008 SP3 patch executable file.
5. Finally SP3 patch will apply successfully.

Have a Sucessful SP3 patch installation....

How to delete old backup files by script.

Extended procedure 'xp_delete_file ' is used for to delete the backup files in the server.

We need to specify the file type selected ((0 = FileBackup,1 = File Report),folder path(trailing slash), file extension which needs to be deleted (N'bak'),date(prior which to delete) and folder flag level((1 = include files in first subfolder level, 0 = not) as like below in the Sql Server Management Studio.

EXECUTE master.dbo.xp_delete_file 0, N’D:\SQLBackup',N'BAK',N'06/07/2011 10:18:49',1

By running above script, we can able to delete the old backup files prior to the above specified date.