I was asked to take a look at an issue the other day regarding displaying Microsoft Project Task’s Notes in SSRS 2008. If you’ve worked with building reports for Microsoft Project Server, you have no doubt dealt with the RTF data that is stored in the Task’s Notes fields. With SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services … Continue reading Displaying Microsoft Project Task’s Notes in SSRS 2008
If you talk to Sarah (twitter), she’ll tell you that I like lists. Lists are awesome – they are almost like non-structured data. They are hierarchies of information that I can work with. They are Data. Microsoft must have known I liked lists because over the weekend I discovered (see below) their SQL Server Best … Continue reading SQL Server Best Practice Whitepapers
I’ll be speaking for the SQL PASS Performance Virtual Chapter next week. It’ll be on July 6 at 12 PM Eastern time. The topic will be Performance Impacts Related to Different Function Types. The abstract for the event is the following: User defined functions provide a means to encapsulate business logic in the database tier. … Continue reading Webcast Next Week – Performance Impacts Related to Different Function Types
Last week I had a blog about getting better error messages out of SQL Agent Jobs. In that blog I had encountered the following error message: Error: 2010-06-23 19:00:30.68 Code: 0×00000000 Source: Execute SQL Task Description: TCP Provider: The semaphore timeout period has expired. End Error The downside is that I don’t have a good … Continue reading Semaphore Timeout Did What?
Have you ever had a SQL Agent Job fail? Of course, just like myself, you have had this happen. When SQL Agent jobs fail, you will want to know why it failed. The problem is that knowing why a SQL Server Agent job has failed can sometimes be a tricky bit of business. The typical … Continue reading Why’d That Job Fail?
Microsoft has released a few new Cumulaive Update for SQL Server. There is an update for each of the supported releases of SQL Server: Cumulative update package 10 for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 Cumulative update package 8 for SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1 Cumulative Update package 2 for SQL Server 2008 R2 … Continue reading Do You Patch SQL Server Regularily?
Today started with some quality time getting to know a deadlock that had occurred. While working through the deadlock, I noticed that there were a number of foreign key relationships that weren't indexed on the parent side of the relationship. I am going to skip over the why to index foreign keys and save that … Continue reading Index Those Foreign Keys
Go get the popcorn and let's get ready to watch some PASS sessions! Last month PASS hosted an event called 24 Hours of PASS. In this event, there were 24 back to back webcasts that focused on SQL Server and more specifically SQL Server 2008 R2. As if that weren't awesome enough, you can now … Continue reading You Thought You Missed 24 Hours of PASS
I was a little slow at submitting this year, but this afternoon I submitted my ideas for sessions for PASS Summit 2010. If you aren’t aware of this conference – it’s probably the best way out there to learn a ton about SQL Server while networking with the people that use it daily and helped … Continue reading PASS Summit 2010 Submissions
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