lokesh sharma

My name is Lokesh Sharma, I have 5 years of experience working with SQL and am really interested in exploring more and more about this fascinating language. My aim here is to share some of the challenges that I faced while working with SQL and also to get feedback whether the approach I followed is an optimal one or not.

Interests: Writing and troubleshooting SQL Queries obviously :-). Other than that a fitness freak

FIND OBJECTS BEING REFERRED BY SSRS REPORT

by lokesh sharma

EVERYDAY MSBI/SQL CHALLENGES

Hi Everyone

In the daily team meeting today, we had a requirement to find out the stored procedure used/referenced by SSRS...

2016-04-07

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SOME BUGS IN SQL-SSRS 2005

by lokesh sharma

EVERYDAY MSBI/SQL CHALLENGES

Hi Guys
I know sql 2005 is getting outdated and there would be no support from Microsoft from this month. But lets not...

2016-04-01

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Handling decimal and non numeric types using Case statement

by lokesh sharma

EVERYDAY MSBI/SQL CHALLENGES

Hi Guys

Just encountered a scenario where I needed to handle numeric and non numeric types using Case statement. Here is the...

2015-10-14 (first published: 2015-10-06)

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syntax error in textheader of stored procedure - Cause and Solution

by lokesh sharma

EVERYDAY MSBI/SQL CHALLENGES

Hi Folks,

Comments play an important part in writing any code. Especially when somebody else reads your code. So the other...

2015-08-30

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by lokesh sharma

EVERYDAY MSBI/SQL CHALLENGES

Hi Folks,

Hope you all are doing good. Would like to start with praying for all those who have been affected...

2015-04-26

Data Rendering Eye Opener SSRS

by lokesh sharma

EVERYDAY MSBI/SQL CHALLENGES

Hi Folks

Greetings to everyone!!!

So last week one of the report was having a performance issue. It had 10 datasets ,5...

2015-04-22 (first published: 2015-04-12)

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Toggle Functionality Looses In excel--ssrs 2005

by lokesh sharma

EVERYDAY MSBI/SQL CHALLENGES

Hi Folks

Highlighting on the issue that I faced last week while working on reporting services 2005.

Requirement :- A data region (table)...

2015-04-03

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Date Range Challenge in sql

by lokesh sharma

EVERYDAY MSBI/SQL CHALLENGES

Hi Folks,

When you work in a offshore - onsite setup in IT industry and if you are fortunate 🙂 to be a...

2015-03-15

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Bug In ado.net enumerator in foreach loop in SSIS 2012

by lokesh sharma

EVERYDAY MSBI/SQL CHALLENGES

Hi Greetings to everyone,

Today I am going to report a bug in SSIS 2012. In one of the packages I...

2014-07-27

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CTE - Limitations

by lokesh sharma

EVERYDAY MSBI/SQL CHALLENGES

Hi

Wanted to explore one of the major limitation of CTE in sql 2012 i.e. it cannot be used inside if...

2014-07-27

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