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Different T-SQL Date Variations for Date Dimensions

belle — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 09:28:36 +0000

Just another handy code snippet for generating dates for date dimensions in your data warehouse. I am providing just the select statement here, but to generate (massive) date records, just create and set your start and end date variables, and enclose your insert and the code below in your WHILE loop. Here’s a table summary [...]

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How to Programmatically Add a User/Group to your SSRS Report Using PowerShell

belle — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 04:06:20 +0000

Some of my projects are still in SSRS 2005 and PowerShell v1.0, so this script works and is tested on this environment only, for now. I plan to port this to SSRS2008, PowerShell v2.0 when I get the chance. I don’t think the code will change much; although one major change would be how I’m [...]

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Retrieve SSRS Report Definition, Role Assignments, Executions Using T-SQL

belle — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 06:56:10 +0000

Just a few queries against the ReportServer database that might come in handy… Of course, these are just some sample queries. Tune and modify according to your needs … -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- -- get report definitions -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Type -- 1 Folder -- 2 Report -- 3 Resource -- 4 Linked Report -- 5 Data [...]

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SQL Server XML Red Gate Ebook, XQuery Labs

belle — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 02:35:09 +0000

Jacob Sebastian is a SQL Server XML Guru! Check out his collection for XQUery Labs. This is the first 12 of his series, and right now he has 43 and counting: XQuery Sample Scripts * XQuery Lab 1 – Transforming rows to columns * XQuery Lab 2 – An example using OUTER APPLY * XQuery [...]

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How to Get Definition for Stored Procedures, UDFs and Triggers using T-SQL

belle — Mon, 18 May 2009 03:51:29 +0000

If you want to list the definition for a stored procedure, User Defined Function, or Trigger, you can use one of the following ways: Alternative 1: sp_helptext (T-SQL) Alternative 2: syscomments (T-SQL) Alternative 3: OBJECT_DEFINITION (T-SQL) Share : No related posts.

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How to Search for Columns in SQL Server

belle — Sun, 17 May 2009 02:27:30 +0000

There are several ways to look for a column in your SQL Server database. Alternative 1: INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS (T-SQL) Alternative 2: sys.columns (T-SQL) Alternative 3: Object Search (SSMS) In SQL Server 2000, there was an “Object Search” tool in Query Analyzer to search for objects. To get to this tool in SQL Server 2000, either - [...]

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Handling Division By Zero Scenarios in T-SQL

belle — Sat, 09 May 2009 18:45:04 +0000

Sometimes it is inevitable to encounter scenarios that will give division by zero errors What you can do is you can code around it, so your users and your app do not get this error. Alternative 1: NULLIF (preferred) The NULLIF built in function returns a NULL if the two parameters are equal. In our [...]

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SQLXML : How to Work With XML Elements (or Nodes) in SQL Server

belle — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 07:02:38 +0000

Assume this is your XML snippet Note that the examples below show how you can manipulate XML nodes – but most operations require singleton values. Ie, the changes must affect one and only one node. Thus in most the examples we specify the index of the node we want to target. For example: which means [...]

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