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Clear Up SSRS Subscriptions
One of the things with SSRS subscriptions is that they create a load of Agent Jobs that don’t clearly link back to specific reports. SQL warns you not to mess with these directly, so you need to find the report … Continue reading
Remove Characters in String T-SQL with No Loop Part 2
Okay, expanding on what I did yesterday. I Built a table, called ExclusionList with one field, ExcludedText E.g. Then created a function: You can then use like this:
Remove Characters in String T-SQL with No Loop
Ok, I’ve seen many ways to do this using loops, but nothing in plain T-SQL Let’s say we have a string that may contain illegal characters, in my case it was project identifiers that needed to be used as file … Continue reading
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Tagged Character Replacement, REPLACE, sql, sql server, string manipulation, t-sql, without loop
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Showing Two Different Scales on Y Axis SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)
Long time, no post… I was asked to create a graph showing throughput of bags on a conveyor grouped into 5 minute intervals. One of the requirements was to show two scales on the Y axis, bags / 5 minute … Continue reading
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Tagged reports, sql server, SQL Server Reporting Services, SSRS
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Search for Value in Multiple Columns SQL Server T-SQL
Having to write some SQL SELECT’s on some un-normalized tables left me thinking there has to be a tidier way. I started with: (@SCAN_ID is a variable declared earlier) I ended up with: Maybe not a massive improvement, but personally … Continue reading
Browse for SQL Server 2008 R2 Installation Media
When running the SQL Server Installation Centre I was receiving the above error. This seems to be caused by the software being installed to a temp folder which is subsequently deleted post install. Mine had been installed from a folder … Continue reading
SQL Server 2008 R2 Maintenance Cleanup Task Not Deleting bak Files
I noticed that my old backup files were not being deleted despite my Cleanup Task being set to delete all bak files more than a day old. Having checked, and double checked the path, file age, etc. I decided it … Continue reading
Multiple OR’s in T-SQL WHERE Condition SQL Server
Just been rewriting some SQL Server stored procedures for a client. There were a lot of SELECT statements like the one below: I’ve seen this quite a few times, and I’m not suggesting this is wrong, however I find that … Continue reading
Parametrised SQL Server Stored Proc From ASP.net / C# / OLEDB
Lets assume that we have a stored procedure that is defined in the following way, it doesn’t really matter what the actual body of the SQL is: We want to be able to call this procedure from an ASP.net page … Continue reading
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Tagged asp.net, c sharp, c#, oledb, parameters, programming, sql, sql server, stored procedure, tsql
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