SSRS Retrieving Oracle Stored Procedure Success or ErrorLevelhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/ssrs-retrieving-oracle-stored-procedure-success-or-errorlevel.html

04 November 2011 We have a report in SQL Server Reporting Services 2008 R2 (SSRS) reading from an Oracle 10g database which works great and lists all the details on a specific student. An additional request is that there appears a link that will run a stored procedure...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
• Language: en-GB

How to Display Report Execution Time in SSRS (milliseconds)https://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/how-to-display-report-execution-time-in-ssrs.html

17 November 2011 to Display Report Execution Time in SQL Server Reporting Services 2008 R2 So there are other articles out there but I was looking to display in milliseconds the execution time it took for a particular report (which searches for results matching the...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
• Language: en-GB

Joes DNS Correction (JDC)https://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/joes-dns-correction2.html?catid=40

25 November 2011 and your usual solution is a reboot, then this tool may be for you. In my environment, I am working with a Visual Studio 2008 IDE (Business Intelligence Development Studio - BIDS) along with Microsoft's Team Foundation Server (TFS). Sometimes I'll check...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Product Documentation
• Language: *

Performance Report - Background colors based on dataset valueshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/green-red-background-colors-based-on-dataset-values.html

02 December 2011 I've recently written a report for SQL Server Reporting Services 2008 R2 (SSRS) which will compare up to 4 reports and will compare the time taken for each one. The breakdown or what I was able to measure with the default installation are the times...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
• Language: en-GB

Returning Oracle Stored Procedure Resultset in SSRShttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/returning-oracle-stored-procedure-resultset-in-ssrs.html

19 January 2012 on the net are either half-complete or partially documented. So here goes... Using Business Intelligence Development Studio v2008 (BIDS) SQL Server Reporting Services v2008 R2 (SSRS) Oracle SQL Developer v3 (you can use any equivalent, eg. SQL*Plus)...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
• Language: en-GB

How to change local folder for TFShttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/tfs/how-to-change-local-folder-for-tfs.html

08 March 2012 I installed Business Intelligence Development Studio 2008 (BIDS) and connected it to a Team Foundation Server 2010 (TFS) instance and set my working local folder to my home directory. When the rest of my colleagues installed it however, they decided to...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Team Foundation Server
• Language: *

Search a database with SOUNDEXhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/search-a-database-with-soundex.html

11 October 2012 I wanted a query that searched every column containing strings in the database and we are somewhat limited in Sql Server 2008 R2 by 4000 characters in a variable (so I couldn't store it in a local variable). So the idea here is to run the below example...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Databases
• Language: en-GB

Generate Academic Calendar using MySQLhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/generate-academic-calendar-using-mysql.html

27 November 2012 4-Jul-2013 5-Jul-2015 27 52 8-Jul-2013 9-Jul-2013 10-Jul-2013 11-Jul-2013 12-Jul-2015 28 This query in T-SQL (SQL Server 2008 R2) for CMIS Facility SELECT calendar.WeekNumber AS AcademicWeek, CAST(DATEPART(dd, calendar.StartDate) AS VARCHAR(2)) + '-' +...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: MySQL
• Language: en-GB

Administrator Program Shortcut without Prompthttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/windows-os/administrator-program-shortcut-without-prompt.html

25 February 2013 name with no spaces). tick the checkbox Run with highest privileges. set "Configure For" to Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 Under the Actions tab, Click on New... Leave "Action" as Start a program for Program/Script, Specify the command path which is...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Windows OS
• Language: *

Compare two databases using T-SQLhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/t-sql/compare-two-databases-using-t-sql.html

24 September 2013 to: MS SQL Server Management Studio 2008 Two Transact-SQL databases What? A quick article on how to compare two Microsoft databases using the tools provided with SQL Server and without having to download any third-party products. Why? I googled and...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Transact-SQL
• Language: en-GB

Joes Password Analyzer (JPA)https://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/joes-password-analyzer-jpa.html?catid=40

03 January 2014 without sending or receiving data to a server. The page used to be a part of a Password Security System I wrote back in 2008 and I missed the analysis capability so I have restored it on my personal website. Security through Obscurity "Security through...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Product Documentation
• Language: *

MS-DOS: Copy folders without overwriting fileshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/automation/ms-dos/ms-dos-copy-folders-without-overwriting-files.html

23 February 2014 files would speed things up). Applies to: Microsoft Windows XP Microsoft Windows 7 Microsoft Windows 8 for Vista and Windows 2008 without XCOPY, try ROBOCOPY. How? We're going to use MS-DOS because I'm that old. Robust File Copy: Open a command prompt...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: MS-DOS
• Language: en-GB

SSRS Stop Scrolling Behindhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/ssrs-stop-scrolling-behind.html

08 April 2014 to: Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) 2008 R2 Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 Microsoft Business Intelligence Development Studio What? I recently revamped our standard report with a new template comprising of a single Tablix which contained...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
• Language: en-GB

Include a carriage return in a column headinghttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/sql-server/include-a-carriage-return-in-a-column-heading.html

07 July 2014 To: MS SQL Server 2008 R2 MS Windows 7 Enterprise (Client) MS Excel 2010 What? A really quick note on how to insert a carriage return or new line into the column name/alias (the header). It might seem trivial but these little aesthetic changes done at...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: SQL Server
• Language: *

T-SQL functions to convert Strings to Tableshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/t-sql/t-sql-functions-to-convert-strings-to-tables.html

20 August 2014 to: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Microsoft SQL Server 2012 What? These were in a solution and I thought I'd note them on my site so I can refer to them more easily. How? Let's start with a function that just converts a string of words delimited by...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Transact-SQL
• Language: en-GB

Change Regional Settings for your Reporthttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/change-regional-settings-for-your-report.html

17 May 2010 Basically I thought that the regional settings of a report generated using Report Builder 2.0 on a MS SQL Server 2008 instance were dependent on either the server or the client machine. Realised that this was actually specified in the report. Here's a...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
• Language: en-GB

SSRS Expand specific drilldown by defaulthttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/ssrs-expand-specific-drilldown-by-default.html

23 February 2011 copied & pasted from other sites) but they refer to SQL Server 2000 or SQL Server 2005. This is how to do it in SQL Server 2008 and creating a report in Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS) or MS Report Builder. Scenario I have a report that...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
• Language: en-GB

SSRS - Lost window with datasetshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/ssrs-lost-window-with-datasets.html

25 March 2011 Business Intelligence Development Studio 2008 Often happens to me and not sure why. You open the project and the window panel for the Report Data containing the parameters and datasets isn't there. I spent a bit of time enabling/disabling toolbars...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
• Language: en-GB

Drop If Object Existshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/t-sql/drop-if-object-exists.html

03 August 2012 Some people have been suggesting you can use "CREATE OR REPLACE... VIEW... FUNCTION" but my SQL Server 2008 Management Studio doesn't like this and refuses to understand what I'm trying to do. Why? As this data seemed to be across various websites, I...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Transact-SQL
• Language: *