How to hide Placeholder in SSRS 2008?
Introduction
For the ones who are working with SSRS, Placeholder is not new for them. So, today I will not go...
2012-02-11
8,184 reads
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Fragmented Index – Rebuild or Reorganize ?
Introduction
In past, many times I have written on Fragmentation of Indexes and how to Defrag them. You can find some...
2012-01-12
15,592 reads
Workarounds for SSRS 2008 Font rendering issue
Problem
A report developed using SSRS 2008 either through Visual Studio 2010 or BIDS 2008 does not renders properly when viewed...
2011-12-02
5,968 reads
Using OFFSET and FETCH
Introduction
Many times while developing our applications we feel the need of pagination, where our User Interface (UI) has to list...
2011-11-30
9,797 reads
How to find out which Table is not having rows in SQL Server?
Introduction
Many times while tuning our production databases we might try to find out the list of tables not having even...
2011-10-01
2,317 reads
How to find a string value in all the string columns of a table/view in SQL Server ?
Introduction
I am sure many times we all might have come across situations where we need to search/find a string value...
2011-09-30
6,347 reads
T-SQL to find Fragmented Indexes
Fragmentation of Indexes is one of the reason for low performing queries resulting in a poor application performance.
Today, I will...
2011-08-22
7,516 reads
Lookup functions in SSRS 2008 R2 - III
Introduction
This is the final post to discuss the last Lookup function Multilookup(). The other two – Lookup() and LookupSet() have already...
2011-07-30
11,351 reads
Lookup functions in SSRS 2008 R2 - II
Introduction
In my last post on Lookup functions related to SSRS 2008 R2, I had explained Lookup(). It is used to...
2011-07-27
8,554 reads
Lookup functions in SSRS 2008 R2 - I
Introduction
Most of us who are regularly working with SSRS have always felt the need of some way through which multiple...
2011-07-22
35,030 reads
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Upgrading Admin Queries
I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?
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