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Integrating Reporting Services with Web Applications - Report Items Tr

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 23:21:53 GMT

This article will demo the use of Reporting Services SOAP API to integrate with a web application. We will begin by creating a new Web Project in VS 2008 and configuring the web.config so we can authenticate using impersonation. Next, we will reference the ReportingService2005 web services proxy object. Then enter some code to render a list of reports from within the Report Catalog.

VistaDB two day sale July 3-4, 2009

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:01:12 GMT

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Entity Framework support - Be there first, or getting it right?

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:00:01 GMT

An in depth look at the issues surrounding VistaDB publishing an EF provider, and why we may just skip it and wait until .Net 4 if Microsoft has changed the model significantly enough.

Adding a Chart and defining a Custom Palette in Reporting Services 200

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:48:54 GMT

This article will provide you with a tip on how to define your own palette for charts, using Reporting Services 2008.

Creating a Shared Data Source in Reporting Services 2008

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:48:18 GMT

This article will provide an example of how to create a Shared Data Source and publish it to your Report Server. You may use the data source while developing reports in Report Designer and Report Builder 2.0 tools. For this example, we will be using SQL Server Business Intelligence Development Studio 2008.

Convert Class Library to Database Project

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:42:41 GMT

I've had this tendency to deploy CLR Functions manually by providing the dll and scripts to the data management team. This has generally worked out great, and I've always thought I'd have a dba available to perform the database duties. Imagine my surprise when I could not contact anyone today.

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Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:49:28 GMT

select query group by date...

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Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:37:39 GMT

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Adding Embedded Code to a Report

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:56:04 GMT

Reporting Services provides the ability to add references to embededed VB.NET code from within the report. You can use this feature to create reusable functions that are called more than once in a report. This post walks you though the steps needed to add embedded code to your reports.

SQL SERVER - 2005 - 2008 - Delete Duplicate Rows

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:00:00 GMT

This method is improved over the earlier method as it not only uses CTE and ROW_NUMBER, but also demonstrates the power of CTE with DELETE statement. We will have a comprehensive discussion about it later in this article. For now, let us first create a sample table from which we will delete records. A Must BookMark!

Maximum Number of Index per Table

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:45:03 GMT

One of the questions was - What is the maximum number of Index per table? I received lots of answers to this question but only two answers are correct. Let us now take a look at them.

SQL SERVER - 2008 - Management Studio New Features

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:15:22 GMT

This article describes the top 5 features of SQL Server Management Studio 2008. With the release of SQL Server 2008 Microsoft has upgraded SSMS with many new features as well as added tons of new functionalities requested by DBAs for long time.

By using some simple T-SQL code, you can compare (all) tables

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:04:28 GMT

By using some simple T-SQL code, you can compare (all) tables from different databases

T-SQL script that uses tablediff to compare all database tables

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:03:54 GMT

T-SQL script that uses the tablediff.exe tool to compare all tables from different databases

Working with Cascading Parameters in Reporting Services

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:24:09 GMT

In this post we will walk through the steps of building a report and with query parameters for both product category and subcategory items. Then we will develop individual datasets to provide values for the cascading parameters. We will be using Report Builder 2.0 for this demo, but you may use the concepts presented below, while designing a report using BIDS.

Some Advantages to Using Stored Procedures

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:29:01 GMT

Syed Ali discussed stored procedures and why use them. I posted my comments there but thought it was worthy of an entry in the blog. There are some things I hate about them as well but I feel they have some very distinct advantages too so they are a necessary evil. I don't see how you can argue against stored procedures. There are drawbacks just as there is with any technology but the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.

Fluent NHibernate With Firebird

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:10:01 GMT

code snippets showing hot to get Fluent NHibernate configured for Firebird.

Entity Framework 4.0: What You May Be Missing

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:15:43 GMT

I have listed these articles in chronological order, oldest to newest, start from where you find interesting, or start at the top as it's the first article I could find where EF 4.0 was announced and always good to get that initial background.

Fluent NHibernate And You

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:29:30 GMT

a breif intro into FLuent NHibernate with code snippets.

Conditional formatting in SQL Server Reporting Services 2008

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:43:20 GMT

In this post we will discuss changing the format of report items or properties based on the data in the report. We will show how build conditional expressions.

Reference custom assemblies in SQL Server Reporting Services 2008

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:42:56 GMT

For this post we will walk through the steps in creating a custom assembly and referencing it from Reporting Services 2008. After we reference the assembly we will can the call the static (shared) method from a texbox field, using a custom expression.

Recompiling Stored Procedures - All, Few or One at a time

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 14:30:00 GMT

Handy queries to show how to recompile all stored procedures at once, recompile a few or recompile one at a time

Data Access: Stored Procedures vs. ORM (ad hoc) Queries

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:15:29 GMT

Yet another contribution to the Stored Procedures vs Dynamic Query debate. Both a rebuttal of the Dynamic Query argument and a practical advice in favor of using the best of both worlds.

ACID Properties

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:25:04 GMT

To ensure integrity of the data, we require that the database system maintain the following properties of the transactions(these properties are also called ACID properties of a transaction.)

The Only Pattern for Data Access is There Are No Patterns for Data Acc

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:03:31 GMT

Over the years of software development, one thing that has eluded most developers is Data Access. Yes, I mean writing code that accesses a database from your application. It is an age old problem since the days when data storage and computing were invented. We would have thought that by now we would have been able to come up with a clean universal pattern for data access such as the M-V-C pattern for User Interfaces or the Singleton pattern or the Factory pattern.