MSDB Job History Duration Conversion

Have you ever queried the msdb tables to get duration details about a particular job? I’ve had to do this...

SQL Saturday 49 Orlando - Delivery Mechanisms using SQL Server Reporting Services (mini)

It's official! I am presenting a mini session for SQL Saturday in Orlando. My topic and some details are below:

Delivery...

Strange but True - Report Parameter Label Blank

Here is another one of those strange but true things that I come across every so often which I thought...

Retrieving Report Names for SSRS Subscription Jobs

The way Reporting Services creates subscriptions is through generating a SQL Server Agent job. This is apparent when you look...

Using WITH NOLOCK

A colleague of mine and I were recently talking about some scripts that they had seen containing the WITH NOLOCK...

Dynamic SQL and Cached Query Plans

Over the many years that I’ve been dealing with SQL Server, I’ve always been told and read about how using...

Restarting SQL Server using a Batch Script

In a previous post, I showed you how one could Restart, Stop and Start the services for an instance of...

Restarting SQL Server using the GUI

Sometimes you may need to restart your instance of SQL Server. You should rarely do this on Production boxes, but...

Jax Code Camp - My Presentation and Projects

First and foremost, I want to thank everyone who attended my presentation today. It got off to a late start due...

How Many Columns In Table and Which Have Identity Columns

I recently had to find a way to look up how many columns were in a table and which of...