T-SQL GO [Count] – New to me!
Ok, I learned a cool feature of the GO command in SQL Server client tools (osql, sqlcmd and SQL Server Management Studio). That is that you can add a number [Count] after the GO keyword. The client...
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SQL Server Reporting Services 2008 for .NET Developers Presentation…
I’ll be speaking at the Orange County .Net user group (www.ocdotnet.org) this evening (02/09/2010) on SSRS 2008 for .NET Developers. I’ll cover the range of options that developers have for enhancing,...
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Introduction to SQL Server Reporting Services Session Slides…
Here is the slide deck from the Introduction to SQL Server Reporting Services sessions I gave at SQL Saturday 44 in Huntington Beach, CA earlier today! Thanks to everybody who came, and sorry for the...
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Adventure Works Logo Re-do
Ok, so I’m a nerd. I’m also a Microsoft Certified Trainer, and I teach a lot of SQL courses so as a result I work with AdventureWorks databases a fair amount. When I am building reports in SSRS that...
View ArticleWouldn’t it be nice if SQL Server exposed the statement tree created by it’s...
If you have seen any of my previous blog posts on extracting SSRS Report XML from the ReportServer.dbo.Catalog table, you may have also noticed some of the comments hoping to determine the objects and...
View Article“SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) Catalog Queries” CodePlex Project
I have received a fair amount of feedback and follow-up questions about my Extracting SSRS Report RDL (XML) from the ReportServer database blog post in which I show how you can simply get a Report’s...
View ArticleSQL Server Case Sensitivity and Accent Sensitivity Demo….
01/18/2010 – 12:18PM I am in the middle of a SQL Server 2008 Administration course, and a question came up about width-sensitivity in collations. I am not sure if half-width vs. full-width makes sense...
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SQL Saturday 157 Azure SQL Database Presentations and Demos
This is an awesome jam packed weekend for me. I had the Windows8 Dev Camp yesterday, and SQL Saturday 157 today. If you are a Database Professional (DBA or Dev) and don’t know about SQL Saturday’s,...
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Business Intelligence Landscape Presentation
I’ll be delivering a “Business Intelligence Landscape” session tonight at the UCSD Extension Continuing Education & Career Showcase. In talk I’ll go over what people mean when they say “Business...
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SQL Server Data Tools for SQL Server 2014 fixes SQL publish.xml “Unable to...
If you have a SQL Database project in Visual Studio 2013, with a *.publish.xml file that you are trying to use to deploy the database to a SQL Server 2014 instance, you may be receiving an error...
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