SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)

SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) is a server-based reporting platform that enables the creation, management, and delivery of a wide range of reports to different audiences. SSRS allows users to create interactive, tabular, graphical, or free-form reports from various data sources, including SQL Server databases, Analysis Services, and other relational or multidimensional data sources.

Cataloging and documenting SSRS

Report catalog

Dataedo imports and catalogs reports from SSRS:

Datasets

Dataedo imports and catalogs datasets with their queries from SSRS:

Linked Sources

Dataedo documents external sources of data as Linked Sources. In those objects, you can view connection details, as well as dialect and default schema.

Linked Sources can be used in objects as reference in tab Metadata & Settings.

Data Lineage

Dataedo will identify and create data lineage on a column level from Dataset to Report always for embedded and shared datasets. Lineage from Datasources to Dataset will be created if:

• Datasource is SQL Server/Azure SQL/Azure Synapse Analytics
• Parsing of SQL query in dataset succeeds

Limitations

• When using Dataedo Agent on Linux, only Standard Authentication is supported. Windows Authentication is not supported. Connecting requires an SSRS server that accepts Basic Authentication.

Specification

Supported versions

From 2008 R2 to 2022

Imported metadata

	Imported	Editable
Datasets	✅	✅
Dataset Description	✅	✅
Script	✅
Columns	✅	✅
Datatypes	✅
Nullability
Column comments		✅
Reports	✅	✅
Report Description	✅	✅
Script
Columns	✅	✅
Datatypes	✅
Nullability
Column comments		✅

Supported features

Feature	Imported
Import comments	✅
Write comments back
Data profiling
Reference data (import lookups)
Importing from DDL
Generating DDL
FK relationship tester

Comments

Dataedo reads comments from the following Redash objects:

Object	Read	Write back
Dataset comments	✅
Report comments	✅

Data Lineage

Source	Method
Datasets - object level	From SQL Parsing
Datasets - column level	From SQL Parsing
Reports - object level	From XML Parsing
Reports - column level	From XML Parsing