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  • RE: Getting #Error when dividing by 0.00

    I think you can use a NullIf function in SSRS, but I'm not certain. If so, wrap that around the denominator, and wrap an IsNull around the whole operation....

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  • RE: display Images from server without URL

    Do you mean you need to have an on-the-fly credential, or you just need to specify a credential that has rights to the folder with the images, or something else?

    The...

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  • RE: How would you build a customer portal?

    Reporting Services can do what you need. If you have a web portal already, it's pretty straightforward to plug in a report viewer and build some reports. You...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    TAMMYAUDETTE (4/12/2010)


    My experience:

    Company sales are down, freeze on spending and I lost 3 team members to downsizing.

    Bottom line, I'm trying to do it all myself. We still need to...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    CirquedeSQLeil (4/12/2010)


    GSquared (4/12/2010)


    Yeah, the "high performance children" thing isn't a mature technology anyway....

    Can't disagree about the mature technology - but my children always have their engines revved from pre-dawn to...

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  • RE: display Images from server without URL

    When you specify "External", it gives you the option of puting the path in there. It needs to start with "file:", then have a standard URL to a shared...

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  • RE: Which is better and Why.?

    Jeff Moden (4/12/2010)


    GSquared (4/12/2010)


    Virtualization almost eliminates the need for it (federation) and the advantages of it. Improving virtualization will make "scale out" on SQL Server a moot point faster...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Yeah, the "high performance children" thing isn't a mature technology anyway....

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    CirquedeSQLeil (4/12/2010)


    The ability to raise kids is akin to the ability to write high performing tsql - thus the Thread is an excellent source for how to raise your children.

    Assuming,...

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  • RE: Which is better and Why.?

    Jeff Moden (4/12/2010)


    Bill Kline-270970 (4/12/2010)


    I work in a multi db platform environment. We use both SQL Server and Oracle. I'm just a newbie when it comes to Oracle...

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  • RE: Using the pivot and to calculate the difference of two coloumns

    I'll give the same advice I always give on the subject of pivoting: Do it in the application, not the database, if it's for presentation to human eyes. Excel,...

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  • RE: why "is null" or "is not null" use index ?

    Microsoft has an article on estimating index disk space at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms190620.aspx. It includes data on the effect of nullable columns, which at least implies that indexes can contain null...

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  • RE: Is It Possible To Use a GUID As a Global Variable?

    Save it as a string?

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  • RE: why "is null" or "is not null" use index ?

    Yes, it does, because it makes that kind of query faster.

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  • RE: SQL Database development Questions

    Well, the answer to #4 is let the front end application do it. Presentation data belongs in the presentation layer, not in the database. That won't get you...

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