Hey guys,
We are having an issue when exporting a SSRS report to Excel. Sometimes we have this warning message: We found a problem with some content in 'XYZ.xlsx'. Do you want us to try to recover as much as we can? If you trust the source of this workbook, click Yes.
We have Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Enterprise installed with SQL Server Reporting Services working on it and using Excel 2016 (16.0.9029.2106) 32-bit.
If we export the data from, lets say 5 countries individually, there is no warning. So we assumed there is no error with any field (only strings, dates and decimals...there are none percentages fields or using functions or very long chars), however when we select all the 5 countries then we have the warning when opening the Excel file. We began to think about an issue with the amount of data, however we only have around 98500 rows with 38 columns.
We know that the limitation of maximum rows per worksheet is 1,048,576 which is very far from our scenario. Even more, we have compared the data exported to Excel with the one coming from the StoredProcedure and all the columns contained the same info. No data was loss or changed (format, decimals) after the Excel completed the file level validation and possible repairs.
Is there any chance of a compatibility issue between our version of SSRS and Excel ? or could be related to amount of data?
Appreciate any information you can provide us.
Thanks,