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Macros in Visual Studio (BIDS)
This post is an extended version of a question I answered on Stack Overflow because it was interesting. When I think of Macros on the one hand I recall quite complicated VBA workbooks I’ve done in the...
View ArticleReporting from date range parameters
So here’s one. You’ve got a table with employee ID primary key, a date employed and a leaving date which can be NULL. The start date has a NOT NULL constraint. On a report you want to be able to enter...
View ArticleUseful tools for monitoring & managing ssrs
Reading this forum article on SSC led me to some interesting tools. Firstly this pack of SSRS reports that monitor the server and statistics is extremely useful and I will add it to the toolbelt....
View ArticleQuerying Active Directory (LDAP) from SQL Server
LDAP LDAP, the “lightweight directory access protocol” is a strange beast. It’s technically a protocol for accessing network directories (directories as in phone directories, not folders), but it sort...
View ArticleMDX formatting and the changing toolset
Reporting Services includes a very useful visual MDX query tool, which I often start with when writing reports. It can add parameters and create calculated members for you which are both handy...
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Excel is still number 1
Excel’s Dominance Excel is a much-maligned product but it has stayed on top since it took over the lead position in business spreadsheets from Lotus 1-2-3 some time in the early 1990′s. The main...
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Advice for building a good gaming PC
Inside a gaming PC, massive heatsink/fan on the CPU and dual graphics cards linked in SLI mode A colleague at work was telling me about their 14YO son who is saving money and building their own...
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Problems purchasing Office 365 vs Office 2013
Last week I went to buy the new version of Office, and was seriously considering the Office 365 subscription. There’s some benefits, mainly you can run it on 5 devices and you get 20 Gig of skydrive...
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Digital Privacy
Commenting on an interesting article So I was reading this amusing story about these neighbours in the Northern Territory of Australia. This one young guy likes doing burnouts up and down his street,...
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ASCII non-printing characters
I had a question this morning from a junior working in another department for whom I have become the de-facto mentor. He’s learning SQL and dabbling in the dark arts of Crystal Reports and the...
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