Question

SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) 2008 R2

I’ve set up a shared dataset that takes a few minutes to execute. It is shared between three reports, and is the core data for these reports. (Some other datasets exist in the reports for parameter population.)

I’ve enabled caching on the dataset, and would like to add the dataset execution time to the reports’ footers. I suppose I could add a column to the dataset with current time in SQL, but is there any SSRS function that will give this to me?

Answer 1

I couldn’t find a pure SSRS method to get this, so as mentioned in my original post, I added a field/column to the shared dataset query. It now begins with:

SELECT
GETDATE() AS DataSetExecutionTime,
...
...

Then in the footer of the report I have a

=First(Fields!DataSetExecutionTime.Value, "DataSetName")

Thanks for the help Daytona…

jf