Running Totals for Each Group
A while ago, I posted a blog on how one could perform running totals using Reporting Services and a user...
2010-10-11
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BrianKMcDonald
Time Saver – Presentation Preparation
Presenting is a huge fear for many and it is no different for me. I have been presenting at SQL...
2010-10-10
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Determine if Directory Exists using xp_cmdshell
Recently, I came across a forum post from a user trying to determine if a directory existed in the file...
2010-10-06
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SQL Saturday 49 Orlando - Delivery Mechanisms using SQL Server Reporting Services (mini)
It's official! I am presenting a mini session for SQL Saturday in Orlando. My topic and some details are below:
Delivery...
2010-10-05
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MSDB Job History Duration Conversion
Have you ever queried the msdb tables to get duration details about a particular job? I’ve had to do this...
2010-10-05
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Converting Dates to Integers
While working on a project recently, I came across a conversion that was trying to convert a date to an...
2010-10-05
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Strange but True - Report Parameter Label Blank
Here is another one of those strange but true things that I come across every so often which I thought...
2010-10-01
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Retrieving Report Names for SSRS Subscription Jobs
The way Reporting Services creates subscriptions is through generating a SQL Server Agent job. This is apparent when you look...
2010-09-01
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Using WITH NOLOCK
A colleague of mine and I were recently talking about some scripts that they had seen containing the WITH NOLOCK...
2010-09-01
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Dynamic SQL and Cached Query Plans
Over the many years that I’ve been dealing with SQL Server, I’ve always been told and read about how using...
2010-08-29
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Blogs
A Broken Copilot Query
By Steve Jones
I was testing the new SSMS (v22 Preview 3) with Copilot and ran into...
SQL Server Alerts
By Kevin3NF
Don’t Let Trouble Sneak Up on You Most SQL Servers run quietly. Until...
Prompt AI helping with Auditing
By Steve Jones
I had a conversation with a customer asking this question: how can I tell...
Forums
Create an HTML Report on the Status of SQL Server Agent Jobs
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Create an HTML Report on...
Collation errors...what is best way to deal with it?
Hi I have a SP that occasionally get this error: Cannot resolve the collation...
Was the index created or not?
Hi everyone I am getting an error when I create the index but I...
Question of the Day
Estimated Rows
I have two calls to the GENERATE_SERIES TVF in this code:
SELECT TOP 10 gs.value FROM GENERATE_SERIES(1, 10) AS gs ORDER BY NEWID () OPTION (RECOMPILE); go DECLARE @a int = 10; SELECT TOP (@a) gs.value FROM GENERATE_SERIES(1, @a) AS gs ORDER BY NEWID () OPTION (RECOMPILE);In the actual query plans, what is the estimated number of rows for each batch in SQL Server 2022? See possible answers