SSRS Error: Unable to connect to remote server error
One fine day when I tried to connect to one of my staging report server I got the
“Unable to connect...
2011-05-26
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Blog Posts
Survival Mode & Dodging Burn Out
One of the benefits of experience is that you can see problems coming, that doesn’t mean you have enough experience...
2011-05-26
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ABL: Always Be Learning
If you have been in the IT field for any length of time, I’m sure you have heard the phrase...
2011-05-25
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devLINK Technical Conference to be Held in Chattanooga, TN, August 17-19
This year’s devLINK Technical Conference will be held at the Chattanooga Convention Center, Chattanooga, TN this upcoming August 17-19, 2011....
2011-05-25
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Efficiency of Subqueries and OR conditions in SQL
A discussion of how joins significantly outperform subqueries and how this is more evident when OR conditions are involved.
SQL queries...
2011-05-25
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Looking Back at SQLRally Orlando
It’s been almost two weeks since we wrapped up our first SQLRally, and in some ways it hasn’t quite sunk...
2011-05-25
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Monitor your SQL Server Agent Proxies Using PowerShell
Over time it's easy to lose track of the things you set up to get work done. As a consultant,...
2011-05-25
1,218 reads
New Whitepaper: Performance Evaluation of Hosting TempDB on FusionIO
New Whitepaper: Performance Evaluation of Hosting TempDB on FusionIO
A colleague I work with on the PQO* Operations SQL V-Team, Jonathan...
2011-05-25
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Nominations are Open for the Fourth Annual Exceptional DBA Awards
SQLServerCentral.com, along with Red Gate Software, are glad to announce that nominations for the fourth annual Exceptional DBA Awards are...
2011-05-25
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Oh ****!
Did you ever accidentally close SQL Server Management Studio? And, in closing SSMS, did you get the prompt that says...
2011-05-25
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Blogs
Identity Columns Can’t Be Updated: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I’m not sure I knew identity column values could not be updated. I ran...
Rolling Back a Broken Release
By Steve Jones
We had an interesting discussion about deployments in databases and how you go forward...
A bespoke reporting solution doesn’t have to cost the earth
By ChrisJenkins
You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
Forums
Can someone please explain what happens?
I have mentioned this several times over several years. Can someone please help me...
SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT) returns null when nothing is found instead of 0
SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT Component) AS Found FROM tblComponents WHERE(Component NOT LIKE '%[a-z]%') AND(LTRIM(RTRIM(Component)) = 'GM13622')...
Remotely Engineer Fabric Lakehouse objects: The Fabric Modern Data Platform
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Remotely Engineer Fabric Lakehouse objects:...
Question of the Day
Creating JSON III
In a SQL Server 2025 table, called Beer, I have this data:
BeerIDBeerName 1Becks 2Fat Tire 3Mac n Jacks 4Alaskan Amber 8KirinI run this code:
SELECT JSON_OBJECTAGG(
BeerID: BeerName )
FROM beer;
What are the results? See possible answers