July Blog Post Wrap-up

I learned this from one of my co-workers. A quick tip for formatting SSRS reports. When you are in the SSRS report editor, and you want to move the currently selected object (or objects), you can move them with …. Read more…

This is part 19 of a 19 part series on TSQL Basics. You will first gain an understanding of the differences between each of these types of JOINS, and when they should be used. Then we’ll explore some common use Read more…

After my CTE presentation at a while back I was asked many questions, and received several great suggestions from people. One question was how does the performance compare between a recursive CTE to generate a hierarchical tree path listing Read more…

This is very useful if you are creating many reports based on a single template. To start with when you use the “Add new Item” functionality into a report project, this is all you get. Report Wizard, Report, and Dat Read more…

This is part 18 of a 19 part series on TSQL Basics. You will first gain an understanding of the differences between each of these types of JOINS, and when they should be used. Then we’ll explore some common use Read more…

When creating a table you can specify IDENTITY with the following syntax: For example The IDENTITY property is valid for data types of the integer data type category, except for the bit data type, or decimal data type. So how Read more…

This is part 17 of a 19 part series on TSQL Basics. You will first gain an understanding of the differences between each of these types of JOINS, and when they should be used. Then we’ll explore some common use Read more…

Throughout my career I have worked with different programming and database tools. Thinking back the tools that I enjoyed using were the tools that were easy to get the job done, and the tools that I hated using were th Read more…

This is part 16 of a 19 part series on TSQL Basics. You will first gain an understanding of the differences between each of these types of JOINS, and when they should be used. Then we’ll explore some common use Read more…

Years ago while working on my CTE presentation for a SQL Saturday I added a blog post called “Using a CTE to Split a String Into Rows“, and since that posting I have used it many times. But a Read more…

Here listed is the current percentages of SQL server versions running our Daily Check-up with Database Health Monitor. Compare this month’s percentages to Last Month’s Percentages

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This is part 15 of a 19 part series on TSQL Basics. You will first gain an understanding of the differences between each of these types of JOINS, and when they should be used. Then we’ll explore some common use Read more…