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  • March 3, 2015 at 8:50 am

    #301624

    Hi friends,

    We need to create a pdf file from SQL server preferably from a stored procedure. Application will call the stored procedure and it should generate pdf. From my research it appears it can be done using various external tools with licensing/costs. But is it possible to do this within sql server database without additional costs? I read that this can be done by SSRS in SQL server but not sure if it is a good solution and if it is additional licensing..

    Please help. THank you so much

  • March 3, 2015 at 8:59 am

    #1781396

    Would this help?

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/creatingapdffromastoredprocedure/1104/


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  • March 3, 2015 at 9:01 am

    #1781399

    it SO depends on what you want to export.

    what is actually in the PDF? a tablular looking/rows and columns? colored headers?

    it's very easy to export to HTML from SQL, as that's text based; pdf is much more difficult.

    with a rare exception of REALLY simple data(pure ascii text, space delimited, never more than say, 100 characters wide),search for SQL2PDF),

    generally, pdf is done outside of SQL, since there's a bit of work to determine the report/formatting. there's lots of possibilities, like creating a service that polls a table for queries, and the queries get dumped into somethign like a DevExpress XtraGrid, which has built in export functions to pdf and other formats.

    all that can be automated by someone with some damn good vb.net/c#.net skills.

    any solution i can think of requires some sort of third party tool; pdf metamorphosis, etc., but the right toold depends on the requirements.

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  • March 3, 2015 at 9:10 am

    #1781406

    Thank you so much for your replies. As of now, we are just discussing the possibilities and availability of the tools/costs etc so I'm not able to look out in a confined manner. From the solutions you have noted, I believe SQL2PDF may be not for us... How about the SQL Server Reporting Services, is it a feature included with the SQL Server database environment or to be purchased seperately?

    THanks for your help

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