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AJ

2006-01-30, 9:26 am

Does anyone know how to report on useability of reports. I need to know
who/when/what has been run etc....
I know that there's the event log table, but have been wondering if
there's any other tables that would need to be considered.

cheers

AJ

Deepak Puri

2006-01-31, 3:23 am

Hi AJ,

If you're referring to Reporting Services, this article by William
Pearson should help:

http://www.databasejournal.com/feat...cle.php/3459461[color=darkred]
January 18, 2005
MSSQL Server Reporting Services: Black Belt Administration: Prepare the
Execution Log for Reporting
By William Pearson
...
the Report Server Execution Log is a great place to start in setting up
a basic performance and auditing analysis capability.

The Execution Log captures data specific to individual reports,
including when a given report was run, identification of the user who
ran it, where the report was delivered, and which rendering format was
used.

In this session, we will:

Discuss Execution Logging in general, and the steps involved in creating
a useful data source for reporting purposes from the log as it appears
in its native form;

Discuss potential complementary functions we can leverage from
implementing Execution Log reporting;

Create a database to store the Execution Log data;

Navigate to the location of the files provided with Reporting Services
to assist us in transforming Execution Log data to a useful reporting
data source;

Open and execute the table creation script provided to create the schema
for our new reporting database;

Load and execute the DTS package provided to transform the Execution Log
data and to populate the new database tables.[color=darkred]


- Deepak

Deepak Puri
Microsoft MVP - SQL Server

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