Adding Parameter Values to a Drop Down List Box
In a recent article (Reporting Services Parameters Not Updating), I showed how report parameters are not automatically updated upon adding...
2010-06-12
2,885 reads
Brian K. McDonald
Filter Jobs using SQL Server Job Activity Monitor
Using SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), we have the capability of quickly looking at job related information to verify things...
2010-06-09
1,660 reads
Get Index Details
We all know that indexes on tables help performance. However, sometimes too much indexing could affect performance as well. One...
2010-06-07
580 reads
Interactive Sort Order using Reporting Services 2008
Sorting results in a tabular style report is a common request from business users. Sometimes, they want to see the...
2010-06-07
839 reads
Tech Ed Conference 2010 – New Orleans
SUNDAY 6/6/2010
While sitting in the conference center for Tech Ed 2010, I thought, why not blog about my trip. Even...
2010-06-07
491 reads
Alternating Group Colors and Alternating Row Colors
Alternating Group Colors and Alternating Row Colors
After posting my recent blog about Alternating Group Colors, I’ve been asked several times...
2010-06-04
1,351 reads
Alternating Group Colors
Formatting reports can be a fun process. I personally look at myself as a Monet or Picasso when creating my...
2010-06-02
500 reads
Flipping a Table Sideways
Not too often, someone asks for a strange request like wanting to pivot on every single value inside a table....
2010-05-28
1,581 reads
Using PATINDEX to Split Column Data
A colleague of mine received an Excel file that he needed to load into a table for future lookup values....
2010-05-20
1,168 reads
Running Totals Using Reporting Services
Sometimes one may need to see a running number that represents a quantity for a period of time. For example,...
2010-05-12
1,453 reads
Blogs
Local LLM Models at SQL Saturday Boston 2025
By Steve Jones
I’m starting a long trip at Boston this weekend. I’ll be there Saturday speaking,...
3 things you must do to start data quality management right
As a data & AI strategist who’s seen countless projects succeed and fail, I...
Set Theory vs. Batch Mode in SQL Server
By SQLPals
Set Theory vs. Batch Mode in SQL Server Not long ago,...
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Question of the Day
Changing the Recovery Time
I want to change the recovery time for a database running on SQL Server 2022. What are my options for setting the value in my ALTER DATABASE statement. If I run this code, what can I use in place of the xxx to define what 12 means?
ALTER DATABASE Finance SET TARGET_RECOVERY_TIME = 12 xxx;See possible answers