Using an RDL File Locally in .NET to Print Reports
The need to print doesn't seem to go away. Using RDL format report file you can print local reports in .net to PDF without having to connect to a Reporting Service Server.
2021-01-18
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Ben Kubicek
- Interests: Jesus, playing guitar singing, most sports, running, biking, triathlons
2020-10-29
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Who is the best person for the job?
Sometimes it is hard to admit that you are not the best person for the job that is presented to you.
2020-04-09
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A tale of updating a legacy system bug
Even simple changes that don't look like they will affect anything often do.
2020-01-07
2,427 reads
How Do You Act When You Need to Learn New Technology?
Today we have a guest editorial from Ben Kubicek as Steve is away from the office. It is hard to be humble, but it is needs to learn something new.
2019-11-27 (first published: 2016-11-07)
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A Self-Serve System to Refresh Databases (Part 3)
This is the wrap up of this series on a system for developers to restore production database in test. It gets pretty detailed on the web setup side.
2019-05-16
2,942 reads
A Self-Serve System that Allows Developers to Refresh Databases (Part 2)
Dive deep into the details of part 2 in this series of creating a solution so Developers can start a restore of Production to test.
2019-05-09
4,309 reads
A Self-Serve System that Allows Developers to Refresh Databases (Part 1)
Empower developers to refresh their own test systems with production backups.
2019-05-02
6,710 reads
Who should have Sysadmin rights?
The point of this article is that only service accounts and/or specific network sql admin accounts should have sysadmin rights.
2019-03-11
1,509 reads
Two Things I Would Change in SSISDB Setup
I suggest these two changes to the SSISDB setup to prevent issues down the road.
2019-01-11 (first published: 2016-03-29)
5,320 reads
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Encoding URLs
I have this data in a table:
CREATE TABLE Response ( ResponseID INT NOT NULL CONSTRAINT ResponsePK PRIMARY KEY , ResponseVal VARBINARY(5000) ) GOIf I want to get a value from this table that I can add to a URL in a browser, which of these code items produces a result I can use? See possible answers