Associating SSRS Scriptions to SQL Jobs

I’ve dealt with a lot of scenarios where I needed to troubleshoot and test a reporting services subscription simply because it failed. Most of the issues stem from the owner permissions, typos when it comes to the email addresses or because the person left the company and didn’t remove their subscriptions. Knowing where to look and how to associate the rather ugly naming convention of the sql jobs in reference to the subscriptions can eat up some valuable time. So let me save you some time by sharing a script I have used on numerous occasions.

The script joins a few ReportServer specific tables to sys.objects. I cannot recall if I had tested this against SQL 2005 but I do know it works well with SQL 2008 and it would be safe to say that it works with 2008 R2 as well. I am pretty certain it should execute without a hiccup on a 2005 instance. I haven’t tested against 2012 as of yet, but when I do I’ll definitely update this post.

To bread and butter. Here’s the script. The following will return all SQL Jobs associated to SQL Server Reporting Services subscriptions.

SELECT
	cmd='EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_start_job @job_name= ''' + sj.[name] + ''';'
	,ReportName=c.[name]
	,ReportPath=c.[Path]
	,LoginName=u.[UserName]
	,SQLJobCreateDate=sj.[date_created]
FROM msdb.dbo.sysjobs sj
	JOIN [ReportServer].[dbo].[ReportSchedule] AS rs (NOLOCK) ON sj.[name] = CAST(rs.[ScheduleID] AS NVARCHAR(128))
	JOIN [ReportServer].[dbo].[Catalog] c (NOLOCK) ON rs.[ReportID] = c.[ItemID]
	JOIN [ReportServer].[dbo].[Users] u (NOLOCK) ON c.[CreatedByID] = u.[UserID]
ORDER BY sj.[date_created] DESC

I like to know what was created today so I run the following:

SELECT
	cmd='EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_start_job @job_name= ''' + sj.[name] + ''';'
	,ReportName=c.[name]
	,ReportPath=c.[Path]
	,LoginName=u.[UserName]
	,SQLJobCreateDate=sj.[date_created]
FROM msdb.dbo.sysjobs sj
	JOIN [ReportServer].[dbo].[ReportSchedule] AS rs (NOLOCK) ON sj.[name] = CAST(rs.[ScheduleID] AS NVARCHAR(128))
	JOIN [ReportServer].[dbo].[Catalog] c (NOLOCK) ON rs.[ReportID] = c.[ItemID]
	JOIN [ReportServer].[dbo].[Users] u (NOLOCK) ON c.[CreatedByID] = u.[UserID]
WHERE (CONVERT(VARCHAR(10),sj.[date_created],101) = CONVERT(VARCHAR(10),GETDATE(),101))
ORDER BY sj.[date_created] DESC

The cmd column provides me the command needed to kick off the subscription. Typically most of the subscriptions are email based so if it hits my inbox I know I am good!