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  • RE: SSRS 2005 - Adding your own totals in a matrix

    Hi Vicki,

    I think you can potentially achieve what you need to do, without changing your result set, by getting familiar with the InScope function. I used it recently to stop...

  • RE: Centralising Reporting Services Stylesheets

    Good work Adam. I spend a lot of my time authoring and maintaining Reporting Services reports, but my programming knowledge outside of SQL/T-SQL is VERY poor, and have therefore been...

  • RE: feasability of OLAP design

    With regards to the descriptive answers, I wonder if you could approach the problem slightly differently. Say for example a question (Q1) is "What constitutes a good response to a...

  • RE: Who is "the IT guy?"

    I don't like to call myself an "IT guy" because I am in denial about being a geek. That and I actually have no idea about how computers, printers, routers...

  • RE: Caching not working when set to expire by schedule

    Hi again,

    I have found that if I set the shared expiration schedule to run, say daily at 1am - or anything but ONCE - then it is fine. Not really...

  • RE: Display Parameters in the header of a report

    Hmmm... how about another parameter which is hidden, which has a default value of "select count(*) from ..." so that it returns the total number of possible options.

    Then you might...

  • RE: selecting new records

    I think the different results are possibly due to collation sequence differences between our servers.

    Or at least, this guy seems to think so. Who am I to disagree?

    http://blogs.charteris.com/blogs/chrisdi/archive/2006/10/31/SQL-Server_3A00_-The-effect-of-collation-on-CHECKSUM.aspx

     

  • RE: selecting new records

    It would be easier yes, but not always accurate. I've hit problems with both of these before - took ages to find the issue.

    select

  • RE: selecting new records

    Aha! I like the EXCEPT operator very much in this case. I am stuck in SQL2000-land, and have not come across this before. I see there's an INTERSECT as well....

  • RE: selecting new records

    Hi Jennifer,

    You might like to also try this:

    select * from TableWithNewData n

    where not exists (select 'x' from TableWithOldData o

       where isnull(o.Column1,'AppropriateValueForDataType' = isnull(n.Column1,'AppropriateValueForDataType')

       and isnull(o.Column2,'AppropriateValueForDataType') = isnull(n.Column2,'AppropriateValueForDataType')

       ...

       and isnull(o.Column255,'AppropriateValueForDataType') = isnull(n.Column255,'AppropriateValueForDataType'))

    That will give...

  • RE: From DBA to DWA

    Thanks for this article Vincent, I think it sums up the role very well. As a datawarehouse developer/consultant, I am often asked to perform all of the tasks you mention....

  • RE: Conforming dimensions

    Hi Stephanie,

    I would suggest having columns "PaycodeA" and "PaycodeB" in your dimension table, and therefore storing both. This is because there isn't really a 'natural' key - particularly if you...

  • RE: Table Partitioning

    Great article. I just wanted to say that I have had some very large performance gains to query times when employing horizontal partitioning on biggish fact tables in a datawarehouse...

  • RE: When are too many large fields ... just too many?

    I'm not the smartest when it comes to the intricacies of SQL Server storage, but I *think* the consultant is right in saying that the 1020 doesn't matter because it...

  • RE: Data Flow Task inside ForEach - how to change column mappings on the fly?

    Hmmm... seems you can't. It is not possible to alter the package that is running. Instead, you need to alter a package that is NOT running, via a script task,...

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