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SQL Server Reporting Services
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What?
A quick article on if you are trying to create a new subscription to a SQL Server Reporting Server (SSRS) report and you are getting a warning message similar to the following:
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Message from webpage

Subscriptions cannot be created because the credentials used to run the report are not stored, or if a linked report, the link is no longer valid.
  1.  Message from webpage 
  2.   
  3.  Subscriptions cannot be created because the credentials used to run the report are not stored, or if a linked report, the link is no longer valid. 

Why?
The problem happens because of the data source used in the report. For static data source connections, this is straightforward but in our case, we have a report which points to different servers based on a report parameter.

How?
Category: SQL Server Reporting Services :: Article: 533

SQL Server Integration Services
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Applies to:
  • Microsoft Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS) Visual Studio 2008
  • Microsoft Windows 7
  • Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5
  • Microsoft Visual C# 2008

What?
So like lots of people on the net, I've been given a datasource with names and addresses all in UPPERCASE. Initially, no one seemed bothered but now the request came through asking if this could be restored to a normal case, a mixture of mostly lowercase and some UPPERCASE.

Why?
I'm writing this article because other solutions on the net were either incomplete, did not work for me or simply did not match the requirements (do they ever?).
  1. The script must be able to be copied into other SSIS packages.
  2. Need the option to merely tick input column names rather than hardcode these.
  3. "It " should be an acronym for IT, so "IT Department" and "Director of IT".
  4. "O'REILLY" should become "O'Reilly" and not "O'reilly".
  5. "MCDONALDS" should become "McDonalds" but do not apply for "MacDonalds" because of names like "MACK" and "MACHURA".
  6. " and ", "la", "le", " van ", " de ", " of " and similar should remain lowercase.

How?

SQL Server Integration Services
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What?
This is a quick article to remind me on how to skip blank rows when using a Flat file as a data source. I would receive another Microsoft error as clear as mud:
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Error: The conditional operation failed.

Error: SSIS Error Code DTS_E_INDUCEDTRANSFORMFAILUREONERROR.  The "component 
"MyDerivedColumns" (4228)" failed because error code 0xC0049063 occurred, and the error
row disposition on "output column "DC_MyDate" (7349)" specifies failure on error. An 
error occurred on the specified object of the specified component.  There may be error 
messages posted before this with more information about the failure.
  1.  Error: The conditional operation failed. 
  2.   
  3.  Error: SSIS Error Code DTS_E_INDUCEDTRANSFORMFAILUREONERROR.  The "component 
  4.  "MyDerivedColumns" (4228)" failed because error code 0xC0049063 occurred, and the error 
  5.  row disposition on "output column "DC_MyDate" (7349)" specifies failure on error. An 
  6.  error occurred on the specified object of the specified component.  There may be error 
  7.  messages posted before this with more information about the failure. 

Why?
So the solution must be obvious to you by now. At least that's what Microsoft people think to themselves every time they see the error they programmed in.

Apparently this problem also happens when you have a Data File of varying column numbers. My solution below will also fix this.

How?
Category: SQL Server Integration Services :: Article: 505

Excel
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What?
This is a quick note to myself so that I never use parentheses in the column headings again. Basically I have a pivot table in Microsoft Excel 2010 with the projects down the left (in the first column) and the days of the week along the top.

Why?
The excel report would hit a bug where it couldn't work out that 10 (Wednesday) happened after 8 (Monday).

How?
See the following screenshot and note the dates for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday:

SQL Server Integration Services
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What?
A quick article on how to skip rows or even specify a range to extract from the Excel file when using as the DataSource.

Why?
If you are simply using a text file as your data source, then the options in the connection manager will let you skip rows and specify column datatypes. You don't get that with Excel but you can still control the data range.

How?
My example is that I have an excel sheet where the first 10 rows are descriptions to the column, and then I have 38 columns ("A" to "AL"):

SQL Server Integration Services
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What?
Please note: the following article is not a solution but a page of various methods and date conversions which I try and use depending on the situation.

This is a quick article on how I got time conversion working in an SSIS package which read from a text file. Note that the example below converts a string in European Date Format (ie. "ddmmyyyy" to "dd/mm/yyyy"). Also, my data flow imports two dates one which was imported as a string (DT_WSTR) and another as a integer (DT_R8).

Why?
It took me a long time to figure this and it was only by trawling through columns that someone mentioned that maybe all the data in that column is not consistent? This made sense as I need to parse the string to extrapolate the date, month and year.

How?

Windows OS
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Applies to:
- Microsoft Windows 7 Enterprise
- User with Local Administrator Privileges (required for setup)


Why?
Our work has group policies and two of our programs, Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate (VS2010) and Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS), require elevated or administator rights/privileges when run. This is so that these programs can write back and forth to our C drive. If we don't run them as local administrators on the workstation, they error incessantly and never manage to do what you want them to do.


What?
I want to create a desktop shortcut that I can double-click and it will run the above programs in administrator mode without confirmation by the Windows operating system. At home this may not be a problem but this is intended for those in an office environment and we get prompted to login (with the same account as we're currently logged-in with???) instead of being able to just click on "Yes".


How?
The gist is that we're going to create a scheduled task (that won't be scheduled) and a shortcut to that task:

Excel
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What?
We have an excel spreadsheet which reports against a mySQL database and reads time spent on projects by IT Service colleagues. The main report is a pivot table with staff members along the top, tasks down the first column, and time spent in the form of person days in the cross-join.

Why?
Currently the smallest bookable time by low-level tape monkeys and techies is 30 minutes (Managers it would appear can book whatever time, eg. 5mins). 30 minutes for us translates to 0.07 in person days (a person day being 7 hours and 24 minutes or 26640 seconds).

How?

Windows OS
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What?
Applies to Windows 7.
Requires a Vogonian environment of red tape and bureaucracy.

This is an article to describe an alternative method then "right-clicking on the desktop", "selecting Personalize", "clicking on Desktop Background", "browsing to the Picture Location". The problem happens when browsing to the picture location and it doesn't seem to remember which folder you selected. At home, this would be a breeze, but that's because I don't implement group policies at home.

Why?
We get problems with this because none of our staff are full administrators of their local workstation. As IT staff we have elevated privileges but not absolute rights to configuring our computer. And we still need to re-login for every change. About a zillion group policies control our every deviation from the standard staff image and so we spend more time on "how do you make it like it was in XP?" situations.

How?
Who doesn't want to change their desktop background wallpaper? Using Windows 7, who doesn't want it to be a slideshow as well?

Excel

Windows OS

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