如何将CRM 2011 SSRS报告导出为SQL查询报告，而不是fetchXML报告？

Question

When I download report from CRM 2011 all queries are exported as fetch XML. I know this is for support of Online version of CRM. But our deployment is on-premises, and there is no need of messy fetch xml queries. Is there a way to download reports so, that queries are in SQL?

Thanks!

Answer 1

When you download reports from CRM 2011, all queries are not necessarily exported as fetchXML -- only if those queries were originally written in fetch will they be exported as fetch.

For example, download the rdl for the Account Overview built in report -- it contains:

set @sql = '
SELECT top 10 CAST(accountid as nvarchar(100)) as AccountID, 
    name
FROM (' + @CRM_FilteredAccount + ') as fa'

exec(@sql)

You can convert fetchXML to SQL with linqpad's Linq2CRM extention or without any 3rd party tools just set a SQL trace and execute your fetch to capture the SQL statement.

EDIT: Also it has been mentioned that FetchXML reports can perform better in CRM because of security concerns. So if messy is your only concern, perhaps potential performance trumps that?