Data Refresh Email

Hi Sudipta33 ,

To achieve this I created a ssis package but it can be done using SQL Server Agent also.

For example you can start the refresh automatically after new data has been inserted in your data source. Then you can query the SubscriptionHistory table. From here you can define next steps, like send mail, log error, do something, retry etc...

Basically the scripts first gets the max value of the SubscriptionHistoryID, then executes the dashboard refresh, waits for the new entry to be made, then checks the status of the current refresh until it is finished.

If [Status] returns 0, then everything is fine, if [Status] returns 2, then there was an error.

I configured my package such, that if an error is returned the hole row is put into an html table and sent by mail

DECLARE @subscription_id_max INT
DECLARE @subscription_id UNIQUEIDENTIFIER

SET @subscription_id = ?

/* We need to save the max number of SubscriptionHistoryID for the given SubscriptionID */
SELECT @subscription_id_max = MAX(SubscriptionHistoryID)
FROM [pbiReportServer].[dbo].[SubscriptionHistory]
WHERE SubscriptionID = @subscription_id

/* update dashboard */
EXEC [pbiReportServer].dbo.AddEvent @EventType = 'DataModelRefresh'
	,@EventData = @subscription_id

/* Wait for the new entry  */
WHILE (
		SELECT COUNT(*)
		FROM [pbiReportServer].[dbo].[SubscriptionHistory]
		WHERE SubscriptionHistoryID > @subscription_id_max
			AND SubscriptionID = @subscription_id
		) = 0
BEGIN
	WAITFOR DELAY '00:00:02'
END

/* Get new max value */
SELECT @subscription_id_max = MAX(SubscriptionHistoryID)
FROM [pbiReportServer].[dbo].[SubscriptionHistory]
WHERE SubscriptionID = @subscription_id

/* Wait for refresh to be finished */
WHILE (
		SELECT [Status]
		FROM [pbiReportServer].[dbo].[SubscriptionHistory]
		WHERE SubscriptionHistoryID = @subscription_id_max
		) = 1
BEGIN
	WAITFOR DELAY '00:00:05'
END

/* Get details of the refresh */
SELECT SubscriptionHistoryID
	,c.Name
	,[StartTime]
	,[EndTime]
	,[Status]
	,[Message]
	,CASE 
		WHEN ISJSON([Details]) = 1
			THEN JSON_VALUE([Details], '$.Errors[0].Message')
		ELSE ''
		END AS [first_message]
	,[Details]
FROM [pbiReportServer].[dbo].[SubscriptionHistory] a
LEFT JOIN Subscriptions b ON b.SubscriptionID = a.SubscriptionID
LEFT JOIN [pbiReportServer].[dbo].[Catalog] c ON b.Report_OID = c.ItemID
WHERE a.SubscriptionID = @subscription_id
	AND a.SubscriptionHistoryID = @subscription_id_max