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Reports server does not show same results as Reports Builder preview

Tuesday, March 14th, 2006

Whenever you get this, chances are you made a mistake. Check the following things:

- Are you connecting to the same database?

- Are you using the same user to connect?

- Are you using the same report?

and last but not least:

- Are you passing the same values to the same parameters?

I have been staring at an empty report generated with the reports webserver for 1.5 hours before I realized I misspelled the parameter name in the url.

Maybe Reports should warn users when they are trying to pass values to unknown parameters…… Or should I pay more attention to what I am doing?