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Formatting Minutes as Hours and Minutes in SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)
Today I was working on an SSRS report for one of our clients and came across a specific formatting requirement around formatting Minutes as HH:MM. Browsed a little bit but could not get it working....
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Happy Birthday To Me :)
Today, 1st Feb 2010 is a very special day for me. Guess why ? It's my B'day today!!!Happy B'day to meHappy B'day to meHappy B'day dear Datta!!!Happy B'day to me :) Today is very special day in another...
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How to Copy Table Structure With Or Without Data in SQL Server
Often while working with T-SQL we create copies of tables as a backup of the original/base table so that we can make changes to the data in the original/base table for testing purposes, and revert back...
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Error - The path is not valid. The path must confirm to Uniform Naming...
Recently I started looking into one of the great features of Reporting Services (SSRS 2008) and that is Subscriptions. A Subscription is a feature in SSRS to deliver a report to the users at specified...
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Query To Get The COUNT of Records in All The Tables in a Database in SQL Server
Often we take the COUNT of records in a table or many of the times all the tables in a database. We might need to get the COUNT of records in all the tables especially for validation purposes.For...
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Query to Select a Random Record from a Table in SQL Server
Often people struggle to get a RANDOM record from a table in SQL Server. There is a function in SQL Server RAND() which generates Random Numbers. However this function does not work as expected while...
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How to Display Report Execution Time in Reporting Services (SSRS)
Often in Reporting Applications, faster rendering of reports is very essential. Especially in case of Operational Reporting Systems with large number of concurrent users, Reporting Rendering SLA is...
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T-SQL - Coding Standards & Best Practices
We see a lots of articles on the net and lots of documents are prepared by different project teams in the industry to present / capture the conventions, coding standards etc. However in reality there...
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Colored Connections in SQL Server 2008
Have you ever heard of a colored connection in SQL Server? Well, may be few but not everyone reading this blog post would have come across colored connections feature of SQL Server 2008. Lets take a...
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T-SQL Coding Made Easy with Inbuilt SQL Server Templates
I have seen many people, even though they know what function / clause / keyword to be used for a particular T-SQL / Other type of query / operation, they don't remember the exact syntax [Including me...
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Formatting T-SQL Queries Made Easy with Instant SQL Formatter
Writing well formatted T-SQL queries is an art and takes quite a bit of patience to do the formatting. While working with various project teams, I often advise my team members and people who are new to...
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T-SQL Tidy - An Online T-SQL Statement Parser and Formatter
Yesterday I came across another interesting and useful online tool for formatting T-SQL queries quickly. T-SQL Tidy is a free online tool which can format numerous lines of T-SQL code within seconds.I...
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Difference between SSRS 2005 and SSRS 2008
Few of my colleagues and friends have been asking me for a while to write something on the differences between SQL Server Reporting Services versions 2005 and 2008. Especially when they were preparing...
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Create Attractive Technical and Non-Technical Charts and Diagrams Online For...
We create Flow Charts, Architecture Diagrams, Diagrams for visual representation of Processes and Concepts etc. There are various tools in the market for different types of diagrams with various...
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Query to Get Week Start Date, Month Start Date and Year Start Date Based on...
In one of the recent projects, there was a requirement to set the First Day of the Week as Start Date and Current Date as End Date for a Week Level Report. Similarly, First Day of Month & Current...
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How to Change the Sequence of Columns in Results Pane in SSMS
Here is a really cool feature which not many of you would be aware of. All of us write simple SELECT * FROM queries in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS). And many times, we copy the data to excel...
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Issue: Execute Package Option Unavailable in SQL Server Business Intelligence...
Everyone working on SQL Server and its components (SSIS, SSAS & SSRS) would require Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS) which is a really cool integrated development environment...
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List all the Columns of an Index in Current Database in SQL Server
Last week I was writing a few validation scripts for some of the recent schema changes / performance tuning which we had done in our project. As part of this we had defined few indexes and most of them...
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Adding an SSIS Package to a Project - Hard Approach vs. Easy Approach
I have been using an easy approach for adding an SSIS Package to an SSIS Project for a couple of years now. But didn't get a chance to actually blog about it. Today I decided to blog it for sure and...
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Getting Latest Code from TFS - The Right Way!
Sometimes when we try to get the latest code from TFS using Get Latest Version option, it does not get us the latest changes in various scenarios. Example: When some of the files are removed/missing...
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