List of SQL tables and attributes used in SSRS reports

Question

Hi,
I have around 450-500 reports deployed in SSRS reporting server.
All these reports are built on SQL from multiple databases, and these databases are having unnecessary tables and attributes.
My requirement is to clean the unused tables and attributes from the databases. For this, I need the list of SQL tables and attributes used in these 450-500 SSRS reports.
Is there any way to get this data?
Regards,
RK

Answer 1

Hi RK,
According to your description, you want to get a list of the tables and attributes used in all reports.
In your scenario, you can query the ReportServer.dbo.Catalog table to get Report name, data source name, dataset name, and query used in the dataset with query below:
WITH XMLNAMESPACES ( DEFAULT 'http://schemas.microsoft.com/sqlserver/reporting/2010/01/reportdefinition', 'http://schemas.microsoft.com/SQLServer/reporting/reportdesigner' AS rd )
SELECT ReportName = name
,DataSetName = x.value('(@Name)[1]', 'VARCHAR(250)')
,DataSourceName = x.value('(Query/DataSourceName)[1]','VARCHAR(250)')
,CommandText = x.value('(Query/CommandText)[1]','VARCHAR(250)')
,Fields = df.value('(@Name)[1]','VARCHAR(250)')
,DataField = df.value('(DataField)[1]','VARCHAR(250)')
,DataType = df.value('(rd:TypeName)[1]','VARCHAR(250)')
--,ConnectionString = x.value('(ConnectionProperties/ConnectString)[1]','VARCHAR(250)')
FROM ( SELECT C.Name,CONVERT(XML,CONVERT(VARBINARY(MAX),C.Content)) AS reportXML
FROM ReportServer.dbo.Catalog C
WHERE C.Content is not null
AND C.Type = 2
) a
CROSS APPLY reportXML.nodes('/Report/DataSets/DataSet') r ( x )
CROSS APPLY x.nodes('Fields/Field') f(df)
ORDER BY name
For more information, please refer to this similar thread:
Extract metadata from report server database
If you have any question, please feel free to ask.
Best regards,
Qiuyun Yu
Qiuyun Yu
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