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Monitoring SSRS Reports and Subscriptions

The Intransigent Data Blog Posted on 15/07/2014 by Andrew Ing29/12/2015

Interpreting data in ReportServer database Observations from SSRS 2008 R2 Subscriptions table dbo.Subscriptions. InactiveFlags There’s no way to disable a subscription from SSRS UI though articles suggest setting InactiveFlags to 1 will achieve this. 0 : schedule is active. 8 … Continue reading →

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Performance Monitoring using typeperf.exe

The Intransigent Data Blog Posted on 03/07/2014 by Andrew Ing03/07/2014

Introduction Avoid all use of the Performance Monitor interface by using typeperf.exe (the oddest of names). Brent Ozar’s Tutorial on SQL Performance Monitoring – using performance monitor manually to gather SQL-relevant counters. Shaun J Stuart Baselining SQL Server Part 1 and … Continue reading →

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SSRS & MDX : Include Member Key in Report

The Intransigent Data Blog Posted on 30/06/2014 by Andrew Ing30/06/2014

Requirement:  to use the a member Key in a report rather than the display name or Value properties. Problem the SSRS query builder doesn’t allow selection of properties to return.  Reference to Fields!MemberName.Key returns Null in reports. One Solution:  Locate following … Continue reading →

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Minimal Permissions

The Intransigent Data Blog Posted on 25/06/2014 by Andrew Ing25/06/2014

What are minimal permissions required for certain operations? Run Profiler ALTER TRACE SSDT Import a database schema into project VIEW DEFINITION VIEW SERVER STATE If working with multiple databases use  VIEW ANY DEFINITION run on master. SSDT Make schema updates … Continue reading →

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Columns to Rows without using UNION or UNPIVOT

The Intransigent Data Blog Posted on 06/05/2014 by Andrew Ing21/05/2014

Problem Table contains two or three columns that should be output as a single column over two or three rows.  Such as [Telephone1], [Telephone2], … columns in a table. Use Table Values constructor in CROSS APPLY clause Use the table … Continue reading →

Posted in T-SQL | Tagged T-SQL

SSIS Export to a Named Worksheet in Excel

The Intransigent Data Blog Posted on 02/05/2014 by Andrew Ing02/05/2014

Exporting data to Excel, but to named spreadsheet(s).  These notes are taken from an exercise using SSIS 2008R2. Create the Data Flow and export data (in required format) to an Excel Destination (creating an Excel Connection Manager in the process).  … Continue reading →

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T-SQL Code Generation

The Intransigent Data Blog Posted on 28/04/2014 by Andrew Ing02/05/2014

  Getting Table and Column details When you want to generate T-SQL code (views, procedures, triggers) automatically you need a list of tables and their columns.  It’s useful to have these in temporary tables or table variables because it is … Continue reading →

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Table Row Counts

The Intransigent Data Blog Posted on 30/03/2014 by Andrew Ing02/05/2014

What is the most efficient, least intrusive, way of getting table row counts (say, for keeping periodic statistics)?    Select(*) is accurate.  Using index statistics is instant but the statistics could be out of date. dm_db_index_physical_stats Dynamic management view.  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms188917.aspx … Continue reading →

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Move SQL Permissions from Users to Roles

The Intransigent Data Blog Posted on 20/01/2014 by Andrew Ing23/01/2014

For ease of maintenance all object permissions should be granted to SQL Server roles and users simply made members of one role or another.    If you’re using SSDT, roles assigned to users don’t work at all well.  I find it … Continue reading →

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Column Naming Conventions

The Intransigent Data Blog Posted on 29/12/2013 by Andrew Ing23/06/2015

Column Naming Convention I like lower case with underscores:  company_id,  first_name, telephone_nbr, booking_ref This is Uncle Joe Celko’s convention as stated in SQL Programming Style (Morgan Kaufmann, 2005), and I accept his justification that Invoices.invoice_nbr  is more readable than Invoices.InvoiceNbr in a dense melee of … Continue reading →

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