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Resolving SSRS and PowerShell New-WebServiceProxy Namespace Issue

belle — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:13:40 +0000

When you’re working with PowerShell and SSRS, you may occasionally come across a script that works once, then just mysteriously decides not to work anymore on a second or third invocation. Or it may just not work period, even though you think the syntax is short and straightforward, and you know you’re not misspelling any [...]

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Reflecting on life, death, and what matters

belle — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 20:57:53 +0000

I was strolling into the office liesurely one morning this week, when one of my co-workers saw me in the hallway and motioned me to hurry because I was apparently late for a meeting. I didn’t realize an invite for an early morning meeting was sent out the night before, around 10:33PM, which I was [...]

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Resolving PowerShell V3 ISE error with Invoke-Sqlcmd

belle — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 19:56:38 +0000

The PowerShell ISE is much improved in V3, needless to say I am really enjoying writing scripts with this tool! It is however, not without hiccups. I was trying to run the Invoke-Sqlcmd cmdlet when I got the following error in the PowerShell ISE Mixed mode assembly is built against version ‘v2.0.50727′ of the runtime [...]

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Significant Changes to SQL Server 2012 Editions, Licensing

belle — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 06:21:34 +0000

As a gist, the new SQL Server 2012 will have a new set of editions: - Standard – will be the new basic version - Enterprise - Business Intelligence - Developer (no more DataCenter, Workgroup and Standard for Small Business) For licensing, Microsoft is doing away with per processor licensing – but replacing this with [...]

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Daring to Dream .. What It Means To Be an MVP (for me)

belle — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 00:37:16 +0000

Just this week, UBC launched of a very ambitious campaign. The tagline is “Start an Evolution” – UBC is launching the biggest fundraising campaign in history. I am very proud to be part of this organization .. albeit in the shadows (I work on the databases, you see). For the unfamiliar it probably sounds like [...]

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VANPASS August 2011 – SSRS Beyond 101

belle — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 04:47:39 +0000

Just wanted to say thank you to everyone who attended the August 2011 VANPASS meeting at the Sierra Systems building. And thank you to the August sponsors Sierra Systems and QueryWorks Solutions! If you need to contact me with questions or comments about the presentation just send me an email at donabel dot santos at [...]

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Connection Error 233 : No process at the other end of the pipe

belle — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 19:38:09 +0000

Just had an interesting error the other day. Got this error when trying to connect one of our servers that has just been patched: A connection was successfully established with the server, but then an error occurred during the login process. (provider: Shared Memory Provider, error: 0 – No process is on the other end [...]

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SQLXML: Fun with SQLXML XQuery – Miscellaneous Functions – Part 1

belle — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 23:24:44 +0000

Just going through some old notes; here are some samples I compiled before that might still be of interest to those of you who are venturing into SQLXML. The samples below are using miscellaneous numeric and string functions. Have fun! Sample XML Miscellaneous Functions 1 Using string-length, concat, contains, substring, ceiling, floor, round Results Miscellaneous [...]

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