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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”.

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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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Detecting and Reporting Errors in Stored Procedures - Part 1

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.

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2005-01-25

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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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SQL Server 2005 Recursive Functions

SQL Server 2005 has added a new format for queries called a Common Table Expression or CTE. CTE’s are part of the SQL:1999 Specification and represent further compliance with this specification by SQL Server. This article will cover using one of the many capabilities of CTE’s, implementing recursive functions. A recursive function is a one that iteratively executes itself. Understanding how CTE’s implement recursive functions is the first step to understanding the full capabilities of CTE’s.

2005-01-19

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SQL Server Database Index Performance

When it comes to auditing index use in SQL Server databases, I sometimes get overwhelmed. For example, how to do you go about auditing indexes in a database with over 1,500 tables? While auditing a single index is relatively straight-forward, auditing thousands of them in multiple databases is not an easy task. Whether the task is easy or not, it is an important task if you want to optimize the performance of your SQL Server databases.

2005-01-18

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