Can I change a datasource's properties at report execution time?

I will be running reports on a shared database server. The database server
supports one main application with many environments for different user
groups. Each groupsâ' data is kept in a different database instance.
I want to deploy my reports in a single location on the shared database
server to simplify installing reporting services and deploying reports.
When a user requests a on-demand report I want the report to pull the data
from the correct SQL Server instance.
Can I to change the reportâ's shared datasource â'Connection Stringâ' to the
userâ's database instance. I will be using SOAP to invoke the reports.
Are there other ways to accomplish my intentions?
I am using SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services Developer Edition with SP1 and
SQL Server 2000 Standard Edition with service packs 1, 2, 3, and 3a applied.Hi,
You may want to use 'SetReportDataSources' to switch between datasources.
More information about this method can be found from the MSDN site:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/RSPROG/htm/
rsp_prog_soapapi_intro_0dnq.asp
Sincerely,
William Wang
Microsoft Online Partner Support
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>I will be running reports on a shared database server. The database
server
>supports one main application with many environments for different user
>groups. Each groupsâ' data is kept in a different database instance.
>I want to deploy my reports in a single location on the shared database
>server to simplify installing reporting services and deploying reports.
>When a user requests a on-demand report I want the report to pull the data
>from the correct SQL Server instance.
>Can I to change the reportâ's shared datasource â'Connection Stringâ'
to the
>userâ's database instance. I will be using SOAP to invoke the reports.
>Are there other ways to accomplish my intentions?
>I am using SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services Developer Edition with SP1
and
>SQL Server 2000 Standard Edition with service packs 1, 2, 3, and 3a
applied.
>

Can anyone really disable caching?

For report properties, I am in 'Execution' and the settings is at 'Do not
cache'. I'd expect this to totally stop caching!
What I'm looking for is the report to pull back fresh data every time it's
requested, NOT when a parameter has to be changed first.
I saw a solution where developers where putting hidden fields on their
reports where these are populated by data that will change every time a
report is requested. If this is the only solution then I understand
completely why this has to happen, but it's still completely hideous. Any
ideas?If the report is set to live you should always get back fresh data, unless
you are doing drill downs. Are you saying if you open two browsers and
browse at separate times they will get cached data?
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"Matt Swift" <MattSwift@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> For report properties, I am in 'Execution' and the settings is at 'Do not
> cache'. I'd expect this to totally stop caching!
> What I'm looking for is the report to pull back fresh data every time it's
> requested, NOT when a parameter has to be changed first.
> I saw a solution where developers where putting hidden fields on their
> reports where these are populated by data that will change every time a
> report is requested. If this is the only solution then I understand
> completely why this has to happen, but it's still completely hideous.
> Any
> ideas?