CONCAT() string function–SQL Server 2012
As the name indicates, CONCAT() will concatenate two or more strings. This is one of the two string functions introduced in...
2011-12-22 (first published: 2011-12-19)
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Sam Vanga
Why did I start blogging?
This post is in response to #meme15 started by Jason Strate (b|t). Two questions were asked in the first assignment....
2011-12-16
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T-SQL Tuesday #025 – Tips and Tricks
And the trick i share for this month’s T-SQL Tuesday is… Distraction free management studio.
If you’re an avid writer, you might...
2011-12-13
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Create Drillthrough Reports
Use Actions!
Your user wants a summary report, containing sales for calendar year, for example. When the user clicks on the...
2011-12-06
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Start Documenting Your Day! Why Now?
I read a post about documenting your day by Steve Jones, here is where culture insists i write a few words about...
2011-11-30
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New string function in SQL Server 2012 – FORMAT()
Formatting numbers in an SSRS report is a common task. For example, you may want to format a number as...
2011-11-29
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SSAS Processing Mode (Lazy Aggregations)
Processing mode property of a partition/measure group determines how partitions will be available to users.
Processing mode has two possible options.
Regular....
2011-11-21
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Create Sparklines in SSRS
When creating a SSRS report, you want to add lines that display trends. Sparklines that were introduced in SQL Server 2008 R2...
2011-11-14
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#SSRS error – An item with the same key has already been added
Here is a simple yet annoying error I ran into while creating a dataset. Below is the query that I...
2011-11-10
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Column alias in order by and where
If you ever wonder why column alias can be used in order by and not in where clause, it’s the...
2011-11-08
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Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #197 – An impactful session or two from a conference – RECAP
By DataOnWheels
Thanks to everyone who joined the blog party this month. I noticed three themes...
OpenClaw- Agentic Engineering
By Vinay Thakur
This week has training on AI – Cyber security experts – Omar Santos and...
Visualising Vectors in High Dimensional Space
Following on from my previous post on building The Burrito Bot, I want to...
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences V
When thinking about the identity property and sequence objects, which of these can generate values before an insert statement is executed?
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