Pie Charts in Reporting Services
Reporting Services is one of the hottest new tools that adds on to SQL Server. William Pearson continues his series on this new product with a look at how to add pie charts to your report.
2004-09-07
2,338 reads
Articles
Review: SQL Auditor
How solid is your SQL Server database design? Will it perform well in practice? SSW has a product, SQL Auditor, that compares your design against a number of well known design rules and gives you reports based on how well your design does. Read Mike Pearson's review of this product.
2004-09-06
5,820 reads
Schemas in ADO.NET 2.0
When you decide on a connection string and add a Data Connection, each Data Connection also displays a tree of information about the database objects (like tables, views, and stored procedures) visible directly through the connection. But where does this information come from? Read this article from MSDN on the new features of ADO.NET.
2004-09-06
853 reads
Review of IIS Admin Tool (No, its not a SQL article)
Win XP Pro limits users to one web site, but developers often need to be able to switch between sites when coding locally. This free tool let's you easily do just that. Why an article on an IIS tool on a SQL site? We think it might be useful to you or someone on your team, and lots of SQL developers use IIS as well.
2004-09-03
5,760 reads
The State Of IT
In 2004 is the IT industry expanding or contracting? Is your job secure? Steve Jones recently completed a survey and just got the results. Read this short summary of the results.
2004-09-03
5,157 reads
Troubleshooting and Debugging SQL Web Services Configurations
A Q&A look at the new Web Services configurations in SQL Server 2005.
2004-09-02
3,099 reads
The Daily Database Build
From SQLTeam's Bill Granazio, a look at how he ensures his database scripts are always working.
2004-09-01
806 reads
InfoPath 2003 - Part 2
Continuing with Dinesh Asanka's series on SQL Server and Infopath 2003, he shows us this time how to build a report that joins two tables and includes some conditional formatting. Infopath 2003 is part of Office 2003 and is a great quick and dirty tool for getting to your SQL Server data.
2004-08-31
7,552 reads
DataSet Server CE: Database Connectivity for Windows Mobile-Based Devi
A short tutorial on building database back-ended applications with SQL Server and CE. If you're looking to build mobile apps, this is a good place to start.
2004-08-31
541 reads
The SQLServerCentral.com Store
We've added a new store section. Read on and visit to see if there's anything worth your while.
2004-08-30
3,467 reads
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #202 Invitation: That One SQL Server Outage You’ll Never Forget
I am excited to host T-SQL Tuesday for the first time. I want to...
A Daily Report from Claude
By Steve Jones
Redgate had some Claude training recently, which I went through as my knowledge has...
A New Word: Gnossienne
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gnossienne– n. the awareness that someone you’ve known for years still has a private...
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Practical Ways to Approach SQL Server Problems and Case Studies
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Question of the Day
Tracking All the Queries
I have 3 instances of a brand new long running query that are executing on a SQL Server 2025 instance. Query store is enabled. One of the queries is killed by the administrator, one is cancelled by the user. The other runs to completion. How many rows are in Query Store for this query?
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