SQL Server 2008 Standard Edition does not support data-driven subscriptions for Reporting Services

Today development colleague to me, said why Reporting Services server Report Management subscription options There is only the "New subscription" option, there is no "data-driven Subscription" option, to be honest, I also basically did not use this feature, so go to the official document to view about "data-driven subscription" of some knowledge.

For a long while, the original SQL Server 2008 only evaluation, Developer, enterprise three versions support this feature, the standard version and SQL server Express with Advanced Services does not support data-driven subscriptions. And it happens that we are the standard version of the database. See Official Documentation: HTTP://TECHNET.MICROSOFT.COM/ZH-CN/LIBRARY/MS159150 (v=sql.105). aspx requirements for using data-driven subscriptions

The data-driven subscription feature is not available in all versions. There are also restrictions on the kinds of data sources that can be used to retrieve subscription data at run time. The following list provides detailed information about these requirements:

• Verify that you are using one of the following versions: Evaluation, Developer, and Enterprise. Standard Edition or SQL Server Express with Advanced Services does not support data-driven subscriptions. For more information about feature availability, see Reporting services in SQL Server Express with advanced service.

• For subscription data, select the data source that can provide schema information for the report server. Examples of supported data source types include SQL Server relational data, Oracle, analysis Services databases, SQL Server integration Services package data, ODBC data sources, and OLE DB data sources. For more information about subscriber data source requirements, see Using external Data sources to provide subscriber data.