In this day and age of businesses, anything that gets people exposure simply to the fact that things are done differently in different countries is a bonus. As someone who...

Great Editorial and a fantastic point.

I am a very hands on Systems Architect and I believe that in every single way it is the developers job to make the...

Well said Ed. :satisfied:

That is the lamest excuse from a company I have ever heard.

People to this day are buying SQL 2005 and Microsoft to this day are patching bugs. When I want...

Brandie Tarvin (2/12/2008)

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Sorry, Andrew, but I have to disagree.

If you think you need the rights and you're not getting them from the person responsible, then you've got no choice but...

Brandie Tarvin (2/11/2008)

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Make a list of your duties. Then investigate each one and verify whether or not you can accomplish that particular task without local admin access. If,...

I always take the stance that you should be justifying what rights you need, not how that is implemented.

If the team responsible for granting rights to Servers or Groups...

I'll would like to just second the use of ask tom (Tom Kytes site). Tom Kyte, while short tempered, arrogrant, Oracle biggot (Not really that bad :)), he is a...

I think the normal concept of Virtual Machines, ie VMWare running on a server with multiple CPU's, lots of memory and maybe a RAID array is not terribly suited to...

Are you using parameterised code ?

//Not parameterised

SqlDataReader myReader;

SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand("SELECT column1 FROM table1 WHERE colum1 = 'xyz'", sqlConn);

myReader = cmd.ExecuteReader();

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//parameterised

SqlDataReader myReader;

SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand("SELECT column1 FROM...

Periods are used to seperate domains, ie owner, database, table and column. IMHO its a very bad idea to use it as part of an object name. In fact, while...

Good pickup...and well done for posting the solution 😉

andre (1/7/2008)

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Thanks for your reply

Sorry Did not make myself clear 🙂

When trying to declare DR as Datarow in the Code window of report, RS throws an error

Datarow does not...

To the best of my knowledge there is no such thing as a Report header in SSRS. Can you clarify that you are talking about a Page Header? Or have...

andre (1/7/2008)

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Hi There

Thanks for your reply.

Yes I am try to build up a string of values.

Interestingly if I do the following

Public Function BldTypes(ByVal DT As DataSet) As String

This line does...