SSRS report rendered in EXCELOPENXML then something went missing
Recently I had been requested by a client to look into one of their SSRS reports issues. They had one...
2014-10-16
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Blog Posts
The Murder Train is making a stop in Salt Lake City
You know, these 1 hour sessions that are at most SQL Saturdays are just too short sometimes – you just get...
2014-10-16
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UNION vs UNION ALL
You might be wondering why I’m going into such a simple subject. Well the way I see it there are...
2014-10-16
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What will you see at SQL in the City
London, Oct 24, 2014
Seattle, Nov 3, 2014
Come join us.
Filed under: Blog Tagged: Humor, syndicated
2014-10-16
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Beware the defaults! (in windowing functions)
Some time ago I was writing some windowing functions on a set of data. Basically I was looking for the...
2014-10-15 (first published: 2014-10-07)
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Can’t Create A Timeline in Excel on Multidimensional Cube
Excel 2013 - We can’t create a Timeline for this report because it doesn’t have a field formatted as Date.
After getting...
2014-10-15
3,359 reads
Hell No, DMO - DMV is what it shall be!
So, I've finally decided to draw a line in the sand. I've been doing some writing lately. The radio silence...
2014-10-15
1,837 reads
I'm an MVP
Hello Dear Reader! Two weeks ago I was very honored to be named a Microsoft SQL Server MVP. Since then...
2014-10-15
809 reads
Lync 2013 Video Issues on Windows 8
Part of the reason I have a blog is to document issues and resolutions I do not want to forget....
2014-10-15
538 reads
PASS Election Results for 2014
The election results were just posted. Congratulations to James Rowland-Jones, Wendy Pastrick, and Grant Fritchey for earning seats on the...
2014-10-15
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Blogs
Who’s the Winningest Coach (with AI Help)
By Steve Jones
I was listening to the radio the other day and the hosts were discussing...
Learning from Mistakes: T-SQL Tuesday #194
By Steve Jones
We’re a week late, once again my fault. I was still coming out of...
Stupid Things I Did With AI: ASCII Art
By Steve Jones
I ran across this article recently (https://www.gatesnotes.com/meet-bill/source-code/reader/microsoft-original-source-code) and it has a great opening piece...
Forums
How to market your book on Amazon?
Marketing a book on Amazon really comes down to combining smart optimization with consistent...
Learning From Breakage
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Python in Action to Auto-Generate an Optimized PostgreSQL Index Strategy
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Python in Action to Auto-Generate...
Question of the Day
Adding and Dropping Columns I
I have this table in my SQL Server 2022 database:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[CityList] ( [CityNameID] [int] NOT NULL IDENTITY(1, 1), [CityName] [varchar] (30) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL ) ON [PRIMARY] GOI decide to add two new columns for the StateProvince and Country. What code should I use? See possible answers