Getting Started with SQL Server Report Builder 3.0
SQL Server offers a simple tool for business users to perform ad-hoc reporting.
2011-12-01
3,439 reads
Additional Articles
Administrating SQL Server Reporting Services – Planning, Documenting and Troubleshooting
DBAs are often short on guidance on how to go about such tasks as planning, documenting and troubleshooting those aspects that are specific to the SSRS service. Feodor Georgiev gives some tips, custom SSMS reports, and useful TSQL queries.
2011-11-30
2,633 reads
7 Preventable Backup Errors
The loss of a company's data is often enough to put the company out of business; and yet backup errors are generally avoidable with the application of common sense rather than deep technical knowledge. Grant digs into memories of his long experience of giving forum advice, to come up with the most easily preventable backup errors.
2011-11-29
2,910 reads
Data Mining Model Training Destination in SQL Server Integration Services
How to incorporate data mining directly into the Data Flow of SQL Server 2008 R2 Integration Services-based packages.
2011-11-28
2,226 reads
SQL Server stored procedure to generate random passwords
SQL Server is used to support many applications and one such feature of most applications is the storage of passwords. Sometimes there is a need to reset a password using a temporary password or generate a random password for a new user. In this tip I cover a simple stored procedure to generate random passwords that can be incorporated into your applications.
2011-11-25
4,497 reads
SQL Server Functions: The Basics
SQL Server's functions are a valuable addition to T-SQL when used wisely. Jeremiah Peshcka provides a complete and comprehensive guide to scalar functions and table-valued functions, and shows how and where they are best used.
2011-11-24
4,190 reads
SQL Server AlwaysOn - Part 2 - Availability Groups Setup
SQL Server has produced some excellent High Availability options, but I was looking for an option that would allow me to access my secondary database without it being read-only or in restoring mode. I need the ability to see transactions occur and query the secondary database.
2011-11-23
2,321 reads
Finding the Source of Your SQL Server Database I/O
There are a number of ways of measuring and identifying I/O-related performance information for your SQL Server database instances.
2011-11-22
3,654 reads
New SQL Server AlwaysOn Feature - Part 1 configuration
SQL Server has produced some excellent High Availability options, but I was looking for an option that would allow me to access my secondary database without it being read-only or in restoring mode. I need the ability to see transactions occur and query the secondary database.
2011-11-21
3,145 reads
Building a Scale Out SSRS 2008 R2 Farm using Windows NLB Part 4
Delivering reports is becoming more critical due to the increasing demand for business intelligence solutions. And while there are a lot of guides that walk us through building a highly available database engine, you’ll rarely see one for SQL Server Reporting Services. How do I go about building a scale-out SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services running on Windows Server 2008 R2?
2011-11-18
1,790 reads
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Odd Sequences
What values are returned from this code?
CREATE SEQUENCE NumericSequence
AS NUMERIC(5,1)
START WITH 1.0
INCREMENT BY 0.1;
GO
SELECT NEXT VALUE FOR NumericSequence
GO
SELECT NEXT VALUE FOR NumericSequence
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