Reporting Services
Over the past couple of articles I have illustrated some of the fun that can be had when dealing with the scheduling capabilities of Reporting Services (SSRS). The first article covered how to create more advanced schedules (from the SSRS point of view). In another I article, I showed how to retrieve scheduling information from the ReportServer database. In that last article, I also promised a follow-up article for more in-depth scheduling details.
SSRS provides the capability to review the scheduled reports (subscriptions) in a far moare detailed fashion than shown in that previous article. That ability is held within the ReportServer database. This article will dive into the source of this scheduling information within the ReportServer database.
This dive will be a bit more detailed than the first time I dove into SSRS scheduling – here. That particular dive was missing an important set of data.
Deeper Dive
My first dive into building a report of the report schedules was pretty comprehensive and I used it quite frequently. Many others also used it regularly for their environments as well. So the first attempt wasn’t bad by any stretch. The main problem (at least for now) is that the script does not account for any of the custom schedules that can be built. I have to be honest in that I hadn’t really considered that feasibility. Times and experience change that perspective. When that perspective changes, it is time to dive back in and add coverage for the shortcoming in the script.
When I dove back in to fetch the custom scheduling information,
I realized there was a discrepancy even in the old report in that I was not gathering Job information pertinent to the schedule. Recall that SSRS subscriptions are performed via the SQL Agent. With that in mind, it is reasonable that the Agent job information is pertinent and germane to the report subscription and probably should be included in a report. Couple that with the methods on creating custom schedules for the SSRS reports, and we have a resounding need to ensure that data is trapped properly.
Due to this epiphany, I have now a more complete script to include both the data from SQL Agent as well as the data from the ReportServer database in regards to subscriptions and schedules of reports.
Script
In pulling the data together from the two sources, I opted to return two result sets. Not just two disparate result sets, but rather two result sets that each pertained to both the agent job information as well as the ReportServer scheduling data. For instance, I took all of the subscriptions in the ReportServer and joined that data to the job system to glean information from there into one result set. And I did the reverse as well. You will see when looking at the query and data. One of the reasons for doing it this way was to make this easier to assimilate into an SSRS style report.
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