When a DBA is managing many different SQL Server boxes, it can be a tedious job to find the port numbers used by all of the SQL Servers. In this article, I would like to discuss several methods for finding the Port numbers used by SQL Server.
2005-01-28
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Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services is a powerful new tool allowing developers to move reporting solutions online for truly global access. This paper explains the key advantages, similarities, and differences between Microsoft Access reports and Reporting Services reports for organizations considering migrating to Reporting Services. (22 printed pages)
2005-01-28
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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 […]
2005-01-27 (first published: 2005-01-07)
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This is a very cool time saving ActiveX Script, run manually from within DTS Designer, that generates date and sequence named backups of the package into the specified development and backup folders. Don't ever lose work again.
2005-01-26 (first published: 2005-01-08)
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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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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 […]
2005-01-25 (first published: 2005-01-10)
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Detailed error reporting from stored procedures can be extremely valuable when debugging problems in your application. I will share different levels of detail that you can build into your stored procedures. You can choose the level of detail appropriate for your situation.
2005-01-25
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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.
2005-01-24 (first published: 2005-01-10)
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Table partitioning is a powerful new feature in SQL Server 2005. It is primarily a manageability feature, but my interest here is in the performance and scalability of table and index partitioning for use with very large tables.
2005-01-24
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Desc : This SQL statement will provide script for backup all your jobs.Remark : Grow-up 'maximum characters per column' (for 8192) and disable 'print column headers' in 'tools' / 'options'
2005-01-21 (first published: 2005-01-11)
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By Brian Kelley
Even preparing for a class or seminar with set materials takes a lot of...
By DataOnWheels
I can’t believe it’s finally here! A way to have Excel live in OneDrive...
By Steve Jones
This image is from 2010, and it goes along with my last post of...
All week we've had issues with the site being up and down. There's been...
I created a post (or tried) in the 2022 Admin forum. https://www.sqlservercentral.com/?post_type=topic&p=4694880 But it's...
In which versions can I mirror a database from an on-premises SQL Server to a Fabric data warehouse?
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