SSRS - Subscription comments location.

Today I was facing a client's problem in SSRS to edit the comments text for over 120 reports to point to a server name (Host Name) instead of IP, to begin with, it was a bad idea and judgment from the person who created the report. and secondly it's rarely to see a server that gets an IP change too!

But the two issues could happen and it's ok, let's face it and fix it.

Here's a screen shot, If you're not familiar with the subscription comments.

To locate it, just navigate to SQL server management studio (SSMS), and browse the :

[ReportServer].[dbo].[Subscriptions] Table

the column that has the comments is [ExtensionSettings]

just replace the text using your T-SQL query and you're done! the data type of that column in nText, so it won't with T-SQL replace function.

so you might use...



UPDATE  S
  SET     S.ExtensionSettings = T.ExtensionSettings
  FROM [ReportServer].[dbo].[Subscriptions] AS S
  JOIN (
  SELECT [SubscriptionID], REPLACE(CONVERT(VARCHAR(MAX),[ExtensionSettings]),'162.162.162.162','HostNameServer')  ExtensionSettings
  FROM [ReportServer].[dbo].[Subscriptions]) AS T
  ON S.SubscriptionID  = T.[SubscriptionID]
 


Hope that helps someone...
Jason


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