The SharePoint Chronicles

First Look at Microsoft Office 2007 - MSPress

2006-05-05T17:44:00Z

New books on Microsoft Office 2007 are coming soon from MSPress:

Look for them at your favorite bookstore in June, or line up and order them now from MSPress :)

SQL Server 2005 Report Packs for SharePoint now available in GotDotNet

2006-05-02T21:46:00Z

An update to the Report Pack is now available at GotDotNet:

http://www.gotdotnet.com/codegallery/codegallery.aspx?id=7727c619-25c0-4664-87ef-4f818c4a57b3

These set of Report Packs (all 8 of them) contain an update to the SharePoint Report Pack with Reports migrated to SQL Reporting Services 2005. Also the latest Data Extraction Program(DEP) source code available for Visual Studio 2005

Enjoy!

Source Code for the Data Extraction Program (DEP) of the SPS Report Pack now available on GotDotNet

2005-11-03T15:50:00Z

First of all, I would like to thank our outsourcing partners Quilogy for developing this wonderful reporting tool for SharePoint. I would like to mention some names from Quilogy as my partners in crime:

Rick Kight - Thanks for all your patience and persistence in making this a success project and putting up with all my cr@p

David Harper - You are my idol!

Charles Wieland - You will be a great developer some day

Eric Brown - Welcome to the mob!

So here it is:

http://workspaces.gotdotnet.com/SPSReportPack

As time permits, I am making some enhancements to the DEP for the following:

1) A WSS-only extractor with no dependencies on the Portal object model

2) A multi-threaded extractor for performance improvement

3) Remove Web service calls and use the object model to improve performance

Upcoming KB Article to address issue in the SQL Report Pack for SharePoint

2005-08-19T20:31:00Z

Knowledge Base Article: ?????

TITLE

You received a Sytem.Data.SqlClient.SqlException error message when running the Data Extraction Program (DEP) RPDataExtraction.exe.

SYMPTOMS

After you have installed and configured the SQL Report Pack for SharePoint on a SharePoint Portal webserver and started extracting the WSS and IIS logfiles, you encounter the following error when running the DEP tool RPDataExtraction.exe.

Copying data from the staging database to the reporting database... Data extraction failed at 99/99/9999 99:99:99 AM

Details:

System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException

String or binary data would be truncated.

The statement has been terminated.

CAUSE

This problem is caused by some field size truncation of temporary tables when they are initially created and rows are inserted that exceeded the size of the field. Specifically, it can be traced to two stored procedures inside the dbSPSReporting database:

The usp_Insert_FactFileStorage stored procedure creates a temporary table called tblTempFileStorage_toFactStorage where the field FileType is wrongly defined as nVarChar(25). It needs to match the DocType field from the dbSPSReporting.dbo.tblDocs table.

The usp_Insert_FactWSS stored procedure creates a temporary table called tblTempWSS_ToFactLoad which have 3 fields that are defined incorrectly. The WSSDate, WSSUser, and WSSDoc fields need to match the corresponding fields from dbSPSReportingStaging.dbo.tblWSSLogData table.

RESOLUTION

To resolve the issue, edit the stored procedures that are causing the error inside the dbSPSReporting database

Modify usp_Insert_FactFileStorage
1. In line 48, column 20, modify the field size definition of FileType to be 255
Modify usp_Insert_FactWSS
1. In line 45, column 11, modify the field type definition of WSSDate to be smalldatetime
2. In Line 47, column 20, modify the field size definition of WSSUser to be 255.
3. In line 48, column 20, modify the field size definition of WSSDoc to be 255

MORE INFORMATION

Additional resources can be found on the following links:

Microsoft SQL Server Report Pack for Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003
<http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=49159368-544B-4B09-8EED-4844B4E33D3D&displaylang=en>

Deployment Guide for SQL Server Report Pack for SharePoint
<Link available next week>

Office Online
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/FX010909721033.aspx