I created a folder using the Report Manager URL but I would like to copy all the files to the different folder. Where is my folder located? I searched it but couldn't find it. Please let me know.
They aren't stored as physical files. They are stored in the Reporting Services database (called ReportServer by default if you don't have a named instance.)
You can't directly copy the files, but you can move them with the Report Manager interface.
To copy the files, use the RS scripting utility, or download and then upload the .rdl files to the new location.
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I have a report that I am trying to drop in a certain folder on my local machine. The issue is that I run SSRS on our virtual server. Is there a way in the "path" section of the report to have it publish outside of the server? Thank you in advance!
If you are referring to the File Share subscription, you can have the path be any valid UNC path. As long as you can refer to a drive or folder on your local machine from your VM, it should work fine.
MS File Share
I have mistakenly put my SQL data directory in the wrong folder and as such, the system DBs are located in the wrong directory, and hence, I want to move it to a different directory. I am going to move the data and log files for all my system DBs but I would like to know if it will move all the folders under MSSQL or do I need to perform some other steps as well? Please find below the folders that I can see under MSSQL.
In order to move system databases, not only you should move the files, but prior to it you should change their paths in system tables by using
ALTER DATABASE..MODIFY FILE
When moving master database you should also change the startup parameters in Configuration Manager, you should put there the new location of master files.
All this is described in Move System Databases article.
Note that if one day you'll need to rebuild your master, it will be put in the old location, so you cannot just get rid of DATA folder. And after rebuilding you'll need to move your system databases again.
This is to let you know the solution to my problem. I have successfully changed the data root directory by moving the data and log files for all the system DBs to the desired location.I also had to change the registry value for the SQLDataRoot directory to my desired location and modify the location of the server diagnostics file as per my cluster requirement. After all this, I have been able to successfully move the folder to the desired location. Thanks for all the help everyone.
I'm using this link as a reference for reading a file from FTP folder. But this tutorial says that the files in the FTP folder should be loaded in a local folder and only then it can be used for processing using other tasks in SSIS.
My question is, Is it possible to read a file directly from the FTP folder without storing them in the local folder and do the ETL operations in SISS?
Any advice would be helpful, Thank you.
Not with standard SSIS components. Standard SSIS allows you to download a file from FTP server to a local folder, and use local CSV-like file as a data source. Standard Flat File Source or XML Source allows only local and mapped network folders as sources for the source File.
If you really want to combine FTP download and Data source in single data source, you can write your own Script Source Component with C# or VB.NET. It will require more efforts than using standard two components.
I need a SQL Server database that stores images, and their name, category, etc, so the SQL table will have 5 or so columns. I'm using Azure as my SQL Server host. It appears I cannot seem to insert image data into my VARBINARY(MAX) column from SQL Server Management Studio which was my first plan. I cannot do this because I cannot seem to give my user permissions to use BULK LOAD. Azure SQL seems to make this impossible. I think I need to use Azure Storage, and then in the SQL Server database, just store a link to the image.
To be clear, I want the images in the database already, I do not want to add them from within the application I am developing. The application I'm developing will only download the images to the device, not upload them.
So How do I upload the images to Azure Storage using the portal, not using code?
So how do I upload the images to Azure Storage using the portal, not using code?
Short Answer
You cannot. The portal does not have a way to upload an image to a storage container from either the old or the new portal.
Alternative
Use the AzCopy Command-Line Utility by Microsoft. It allows you to do what you want with just two command lines. There is terrific tutorial here.
First, download and install the utility. Second, open a command prompt and navigate to the installation AzCopy install directory. Third, upload a file to your storage account. Here are the second and third steps.
> cd C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Azure\AzCopy
> AzCopy /Source:folder /Dest:account /DestKey:key /Pattern:file
And here are what the parameters mean.
Source The folder on your computer that contains the images to upload.
Dest The address of the storage container at which to store the images.
DestKey The primary access key for your storage account.
Pattern The name of the file to upload (or a pattern).
Example
This uploads an image named my-cat.png from the C:\temp folder on my computer to a storage contained called mvp1. If you wanted to upload all the png images in that folder, you could replace my-cat.png with *.png and it work upload them all.
AzCopy /Source:C:\temp /Dest:https://my.blob.core.windows.net/mvp1 /DestKey:tLlbC59ggDdJ+Dg== /Pattern:my-cat.png
You might also what to take a look at the answers to this question: How do I upload some file into Azure blob storage without writing my own program?
I'm using the Database Publishing Wizard in VS2008 to push changes to my hosting provider. It doesn't look like those settings go with the project (which seems a little silly to me), but rather they go with the machine.
On each new machine that I'd like to publish from I need to go through the process of digging up my database settings.
Is there a way to backup/export/save these settings to a file?
If so, what is it?
Hmmm ... it appears that the publishing wizard uses 2 config files for it's application configuration:
The Publish Database Wizard uses the
files user.config and hoster.config to
store configuration information. The
directory in which these files are
stored must have the appropriate NTFS
file system permissions set. These
files contain user names and encrypted
passwords. The passwords are encrypted
by using DPAPI.
user.config File
This file stores persisted host and
configuration settings for the Publish
Database Wizard. The user.config file
is located at %SystemDrive%\Documents
and Settings\%Username%\Application
Data\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL
Server\90\Tools\Publishing
Wizard\user.config.
hoster.config File
This file stores options about Web
service addresses, user names, and
databases for shared hosting
providers. The hoster.config file is
located at %SystemDrive%\Documents and
Settings\%Username%\Application
Data\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL
Server\90\Tools\Publishing
Wizard\hoster.config.
I'm trying to access these files in Vista (with VS2008 and SQL Express installed) and striking out. I'll keep you posted.
Update: Looks like I didn't have the Publishing Wizard installed after all. After grabbing the version for VS2008 here, and then installing (and don't worry -- you won't see any indication it's getting installed, but it does).... and THEN setting up my first database using the wizard, it looks like there are indeed some settings stored uder the 'Application Data' directory listed above. However, it looks like it's just a user.config, and then an XML file for each database configured. I believe you can backup each of these files for later use.