Comments on: SSRS 2008 Data Driven Subscriptions and Alerts

By: Kunal

Kunal — Fri, 28 May 2010 22:04:48 +0000

I am still looking for the solution to the post posted above. Has any one achieved the same?

I am trying to send out an alert when there are any records returned by the MDX query.

As of now i sent out emails which has no records and it is hated by business people.

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:06:02 +0000

Thanks for the follow-up. No. Actually we got moved to another higher priority project and have not come back to this. Curious if anything in R2 will address the need. I haven’t seen anything yet.

Blessings.

By: David Richardson

David Richardson — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:27:06 +0000

I had the same idea of using SSRS for Alerts… Have you made any progress?

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:26:32 +0000

Thanks Kevin. You described, much better than I, the approach I am looking to take unless there is a better idea out there. I remember a few years ago reading about Notification Services. Hmmm Wondering if that is an approach for the notification aspect, less report. (Dangerous to write my stream of conscious thoughts)

Thanks for the tip. Blessings!

By: kevin

kevin — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:41:46 +0000

If the SSRS report dataset comes from a stored procedure you can perform some other operations in addition to providing data to the report. So you could update a matching table that stores user FK, Record FK, and a bit field or datetime field for sent. The select statement can do a NOT EXISTS on that matching table so records don’t get reported again. You may need a temp table to ensure the results in the SELECT statment and UPDATE statement are exactly the same.

One thing to note in SQL Server 2005 at least, Visual Studio won’t properly read fields into the dataset if the SP has more complex T-SQL before the SELECT statement. However, you can add fields to the dataset manually OR refresh the dataset from the SP then add the additional T-SQL.

God bless,

Kevin