An unexpected error occurred in Report Processing. (rsUnexpectedError)

I'm creating one of the most important reports for the business and I'm having a weird problem. The report renders just fine in the browser but as soon as I try to export it to a PDF (which is basically what we do with all our reports - of course automatically through the webservice) it crashes with the above mentioned error.

After some surfing I came across an article in the Reporting Services newsgroup where one MattiasT had the same problem and he found the conditions for it to happen.

1. You are using a table.
2. The HideDuplicates property is used on a detail cell in this table.
3. The table contains a subreport.

And sure enough... when I remove the HideDuplicates the report generates just fine.

Unfortunately there seems to be no solution for the time being, except for changing the way you create the report because having all 3 conditions is a prerequisite.

TempDB and missing Device

Just had a nice little incident :-s

One of our development servers was used for tests with a SAN disk. They moved our TempDB to the SAN and after the tests removed the SAN disks. No problem, but they forgot to move the TempDB location to the local disks. Result? No more SQL Server :-x

In order to get it back up we did the following:
Start SQL Server from the command prompt with the following syntax
sqlserver -f -c -T3609 -T4022

-f: minimal configuration mode
-c: not as a service (console mode so you can follow the nice little thingies SQL Server does)
-T3609: skip tempdb creation at startup
-T4022: bypasses automatically started procedures

Then we updated sysdatabases and sysaltfiles (I know it's hardcore) with the correct file locations.

Restart SQL Server and GO GO GO

The Daily WTF (What The F*ck)

For those of you that don't know the site, this is really one you should visit every day ;-)
It's a website that gathers programming stupidity on a daily basis.

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If you are feeling very lucky ;)
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Mindi Abair

Heard some nice music yesterday. I was chilling with some music on SmoothJazz when I heard a song by Mindi Abair called Make A Wish, very nice indeed! When I was all chilled out I switched to Radio Paradise which is really a very good radio station.

Check them out.

Week @ Home

Aaah, just got back from a little holiday :-s
It's good to be back but I liked it more being home ;-)