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  • RE: possible to force @parameter value to refresh?

    Hmm.. I would probably pass a hidden Dashboard field that defaults to null or an empty string, and in the query feeding the subreport test for that value and replace...

  • RE: Coding More Carefully

    ben.mcintyre (1/12/2012)


    As primarily a c# coder, I emphatically disagree with this proposition.

    In fact, being able to compile frequently (any I often do it once every couple of minutes) allows me...

  • RE: Coding More Carefully

    No Agile, back then. 😉

  • RE: Coding More Carefully

    "Limiting developers to one compile a day wouldn't work these days, but I wonder if limiting the number of compiles might result in developers spending a little more time thinking...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    +1 - perfect wording, Cadavre

  • RE: Subscriptions

    Simple and neat - thanks, Steve!

  • RE: The Stubborn DBA

    Evil Kraig F (1/11/2012)


    Phil Factor (1/11/2012)


    And what if, despite what your rational mind says, you can't even leave the problem alone when you're asleep?

    Yes, it happens to me sometimes. I...

  • RE: Excel Manipulation using SSIS

    If your data source is SSIS, you might give users spreadsheets that fill in data by PowerPivot, and grant them access to their cubes.

    There is a drawback, though: once users...

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    SQLRNNR (1/11/2012)


    shrink

    wrap

  • RE: Cloud Safety

    TravisDBA (1/11/2012)


    "how can you make sure your cloud provider can protect your data?"

    Very simple, ask your Cloud Provider about 20 or so very pointed questions, and make sure you are...

  • RE: SSIS return nulls

    Please post the code that does the checking and transform.

  • RE: The Stubborn DBA

    TravisDBA (1/11/2012)


    And there's never a good way to tell up front when that time will have been productive and when it won't.

    Sure there is. You put a realistic time...

  • RE: Censoring the Internet

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (1/11/2012)


    Ah, so you can assign our a portion of your copyright. The authors retain copyright for their work published here, but they grant us perpetual...

  • RE: Censoring the Internet

    On a second thought, distribution separated frrom copyright is bnecoming common in software, too. I believe BillG pioneered that approach when he got distribution rights to Flight Simulator, which was...

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