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Reporting Services Extras Bug - Date Sort Problem

SQL Server's Reporting Services comes with some pre-built reports to be able to monitor who is doing what with your Reporting Services Server. You can find these reports in the \Extras\Execution Log Sample Reports folder on the product CD-ROM (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/rsadmin/htm/arp_rslogfiles_v1_88gy.asp). One of the reports is titled "Todays Reports" (Todays Reports.rdl/pToday Dataset). It should show the […]

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2005-01-27 (first published: )

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Microsoft SQL Reporting Services – Running a Report from the Command L

I recently ran into a need to run a report in SQL reporting services from the command line. The Report took four (4) input parameters and I had to export it to Microsoft® Excel and save it to disk. I had to rummage through the product documentation and the Microsoft® SQL Reporting newsgroup to get this right. For running reports from the command line, SQL Reporting services provide a utility called “rs utility”.

2005-01-26

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Add Wildcards to Advanced Search Stored Procedure

I have found that I can add wildcard support to the Advanced Search Stored Procedure submitted by jgroseth (Posted: 07/02/2004) here:http://www.sqlservercentral.com/scripts/contributions/1201.aspby simply modifying "charindex( c.string," to "patindex('%' + c.string + '%'"I did this to take varying whitespace into account since SQL server does not care about whitespace, for example "INSERT INTO DATABASE_MYTABLE" could have any […]

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2005-01-25 (first published: )

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Generate Random Alphanumeric String

Here's a short script to generate a random alphanumeric string based on newid(). The procedure takes in length (@len) which determines the key length. Length must be between 8 and 32. Result is returned in an output parameter. A test script is supplied.

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2005-01-24 (first published: )

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Running SQLCMD II

I run this command to start SQLCMD:

sqlcmd -S localhost -E -c "proceed"
At the prompt, I type this (the 1> and 2> are prompts):
1> select @@version
2> go
What happens?

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