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  • RE: Staging table population - advice needed

    his part works but everytime I look at all the IFs I get confused so I thought there might be a better way to achive the same result.

    Having before and...

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  • RE: Not able to insert data in table

    You mentioned you have tons of indexes. I hope on of them is a clustered? Lots of indexes ( lets say half the number of columns on the table) can...

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  • RE: Query on a large database

    As mentioned in the blog, in a DW with over 100 Million rows , most of the queries will end up performing scans

    I dont know what qualifies as "most queries."...

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  • RE: ORDER BY in a cursor

    rjuarez71 (11/24/2015)


    Good morning,

    Just to ADD, I saw that adding

    DECLARE x_cursor CURSOR STATIC READ_ONLY FOR ...

    Solves the issue

    best regards 🙂

    From MSDN,

    "STATIC

    Defines a cursor that makes a...

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  • RE: .rdl opens to XML code. Need Report Layout view.

    Glad that you were able to get a resolution. Only that uninstalling apps and the pain that goes with all that might get irritating if you run into this situation...

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  • RE: Rename a network file using xp_cmdshell

    Thanks Ed, I had to look at it for a minute to figure it out. It looks like that single quote is closing the first one in front of ren.....

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  • RE: Rename a network file using xp_cmdshell

    "export_File_IMG_'

    I dont work with this a whole lot so I was wondering if the single quote closing the double quote is valid, or if it is just covering the...

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  • RE: SSRS 2008 exported reports excel sheet tab name issue.

    Are you referring to exporting the data in a SSRS report to Excel ? OR are you referring to a report subscription ?

    Please see if the below link helps...

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  • RE: Pie Chart to Show top5 Collect all others

    I would approach this by using the SQL in your report (preferably the stored procedure that the report calls).

    WITH myTop5 as (

    select top 5 customer

    from...

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  • RE: Something just is not clicking with me

    Typically a SCD type 2 has those validFrom and validTo fields in the dimension table. You can create your DSV by filtering on only those that have the validTo be...

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  • RE: A Single-Parameter Date Range in SQL Server Reporting Services

    Good concept and idea. I had implemented something similar. I am sure we have all seen the choose a month to report from . In these cases I instructions in...

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  • RE: .rdl opens to XML code. Need Report Layout view.

    Try to start clean,in these cases. Create a SSRS project named like TempSSRShold for example. Then Right click the Reports node, add > existing item. From here navigate to the...

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  • RE: Something just is not clicking with me

    Just to add a little here, recall that a FACT is just that. It captures something that happened at a point in time. There is really no updating here (unless...

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  • RE: Could use some advice

    Just start writing, anything, everything and maybe something will catch fire

    The problem is once you begin something there is this inertia that keeps you from wanting to go back and...

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  • RE: Could use some advice

    I agree with the prior posts that the Kimball books outline well the approach to creating a data warehouse from the ground up. Be careful with defining the "grain." Some...

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