In this tip, we will see how to build a report which shows the cumulative sales amount for the current month, current quarter (QTD) and current year (YTD) in a single crosstab (tablix) report, which makes it easy to compare the data.
2012-01-27
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Do you use or need a database process framework? Read on to see if this is something that might help you build better database software processes.
2012-01-26
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2012-01-26 (first published: 2010-08-04)
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Every so often, the question comes up on forums of how to pass a list as a parameter to a SQL procedure or function. Phil Factor provides some examples using XML, and tests them against other popular methods.
2012-01-26
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I recently encountered a situation where the drive hosting Sharepoint Databases in a Staging environment ran out of space. I logged onto the server and found that the msdb database has itself occupied 38 GB of the total disk space. Msdb database generally contain maintenance information for the database such as backups, log shipping and so on.
2012-01-25
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We'd like to better understand the kinds of database related development tasks that you perform, so that we can ensure our tools are helping you to be more productive.
2012-01-25
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This article presents an easy method to get YTD data grouped by months in T-SQL.
2012-01-24
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2012-01-24 (first published: 2010-07-28)
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There are lots of things to think about when you design a physical database. What data types should I use? What column is appropriate for the primary key? Are there particular indexes that I should use to improve performance? How should I implement data integrity rules? This list goes on and on. In this article Greg Larsen will be exploring different physical database design elements.
2012-01-24
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Databases are unique in IT that they are singularly resistant to 'best practice' advice. Any such advice can never be anything other than a starting position for tests in your own environment.
2012-01-23
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Programmatic Tool Calling with the Claude SDK Every morning somebody on the team runs the...
By Steve Jones
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By Brian Kelley
Pinal Dave wrote up his methodology for what to do when you discover bad...
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