Report with sub-report not generating in Reporting Services 2005

Question

This is my first attempt at employing sub reports and my overall experience with reporting services is minimal (edits to existing reports, creation of some basic reports).

I have added a sub report to a an existing report. The sub report returns in about 1 second when tested separately. The query that powers it returns in less than a second in Management Studio.

The main report takes about 2 minutes to run without the sub report component. With the sub report however, it does not appear to return at all after more than 10 minutes.

Is there something fundamental I am missing here?

This is running on SQL Server 2005 and the project is in Visual Studio 2005.

Answer 1

It really depends on what you are doing with the subreports. Each subreport is like a complete report request so you have to be careful if you are putting them in a repeating element like a table or list. If you do the performance of your report will quickly deteriorate with the size of your table/list.