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You should never use dumps to prepare for an exam. If you do that, not only will your certificate be worthless, indirectly you also give others who actually studied for the exam a bad reputation....
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Try this in Google: sql server video tutorial If that didn't answer your question, please post more details what you'd like to achieve.
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Your code is looping over the recordset and for each record it needs to execute one, possibly two, stored procedures. It's normal that this is slow, it's comparable to using a cursor in T-SQL: avoid if...
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Here's what I would do: with CatTitles as ( --replace empty string with NULL select case when LEN(CatTitle_E) = 0 then null else CatTitle_E end CatTitle_E , case when LEN(CatTitle_F) = 0 then null else...
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A report with just under 1 million rows doesn't really sound useful to me. I mean, no one is going to examine all those rows separately, right? And that's also the reason for the out of memory...
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Unfortunately the location of the visibility toggle icon cannot be controlled. Same for its look. So using a separate textbox to control its location is about the only way that I can think of. Have you...
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If all you need to do is remove that percentage sign from your values, you don't really need to implement a Script component. A simple Derived Column Transformation would work fine. With that you'd...
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Database denormalization is also used in the context of data warehousing. Often the normalized OLTP model will get denormalized into a star schema with Fact and Dimension tables. This type of model...
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I assume your table has got a column called **Gender** and its type is *char(1)*. And you're asking how to prevent incorrect values from getting inserted into that table. Correct values are M and W,...
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I hope I understood your question completely. In the end, you want to load a table based on some data out of the XML, right? In that case I would give SSIS in combination with XSLT a try, using the...
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So the data should get sorted numerically, not alphabetically, and **trailing zeroes after the decimal separator are significant**, interesting! You can actually do that but you'll have to create a...
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Perhaps something like (but just a guess at this moment due to limited info): =IIF(Len(Fields!Supplier.Value) > 0, Fields!Supplier.Value, Fields!Product.Value)
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You should be able to accomplish that using a [Data Driven Subscription][1]. Implement two parameters in your report: StartDate and EndDate. Then feed them values from the database through the...
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If you're using the param straight in the dataset query, use following syntax: ... WHERE SomeField IN (@YourParam) SSRS is able to handle the incoming array of values in that way. However, if you are...
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You will need to change the WHERE clause in the dataset query to something like this: ... WHERE SomeField IN (@YourParam) SSRS is able to handle the incoming array of values in that way.
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Perhaps something like this? create table #t(IDList varchar(100)) insert into #t select '12,456,78' union all select '789,56,321' union all select '23,45,78' declare @SID varchar(10) = '78'; select *...
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Have a look at the following article if you're still struggling to get that implemented: [Creating Multiple-Column Reports][1] [1]: http://blog.hoegaerden.be/2012/11/01/creating-multiple-column-reports/
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Looks like your parameter is called X, right? To display all selected (or entered in this case) values, you need to join them together. This is what the textbox expression looks like:...
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Here's what I would do: with CatTitles as ( --replace empty string with NULL select case when LEN(CatTitle_E) = 0 then null else CatTitle_E end CatTitle_E , case when LEN(CatTitle_F) = 0 then null else...
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A report with just under 1 million rows doesn't really sound useful to me. I mean, no one is going to examine all those rows separately, right? And that's also the reason for the out of memory...
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