Beginning SQL Server 2005 Programming | Blinded by the lights
After a while (busy days…) I’ve got a new book: Beginning SQL Server 2005 Programming by Robert Vieira. I’m not considering myslef a SQL Server expert but to be honest I was afraid of this beginning word in the title. Yet I’ve been using SQL Server for a couple of years (apart from Java, C#,…
adminSecurity in accessing reports on Report Server | Blinded by the lights
Once you deploy reports on to Report Server they can be accessed from any Web application with an established URL. However, I see a scenario when one wants to prevent some users from accessing reports (e.g. a user should be able to view reports presenting only their personal information). The way around this is to…
Reporting Services – “Your browser does not support scripts or has been configured not to allow scripts.” | Blinded by the lights
When I run a report in the Report Manager using Internet Explorer (I had this issue on IE7) I got the following error: Your browser does not support scripts or has been configured not to allow scripts. Solution Should you get it as well follow the instruction below: go to (from its menu) Tools/Internet Options…
Reporting Services – blank Report Manager screen | Blinded by the lights
I believe Reporting Services are very powerful tool for report generation. Unfortunately the installation process can be time consuming as you might face some problems with the cofiguration… Of course such problems can be the reason of unsufficient knowledge in SQL Server configuration and management, etc. Anyway, blank Report Manager screen can be one of…
Summary of Communities to Communities (C2C) 2009 Conference | Blinded by the lights
C2C is a history now. I attended .NET stream and one session on SQL. The conference as a whole was very interesting, well organised, and basically developing. It was a Polish conference so most sessions were conducted in Polish but there were a couple of speakers from abroad too, and they spoke in English. Basically…
Create a report with Reporting Services | Blinded by the lights
If you want to create a report in 5 mins, you should follow this tutorial. All requirement software can be found there. I installed the following: The tutorial instructs you how to create the report (RDL file): how to define the data source, layout and how to preview the report. Once you’re done, you can…
Data Transformation Services | Blinded by the lights
Recently, I’ve learned how to write DTS (Data Transformation Services) in SQL Server 2000. In general, this tool allows transformation of data: copying between different databases (by different vendors) and files (Excel, CSV, etc.). The idea is simple; the usage often priceless. The execution path of a package is defined using a kind of graph,…
How to dynamically add new columns to report created with Reporting Services? | Blinded by the lights
Imagine you have a report that displays some data and the number of columns cannot be defined at the design stage, i.e. the number of columns depends on user input. That seems to cause some problems when you want to render this report with Reporting Services… Solution: Note: The described solution applies to the case…
TSQL – How to select multiple rows into a single row | Blinded by the lights
I spend too long on finding the solution for this problem… Basically I had a table which looked like this What I wanted was to select all as one row as a set of items separated with a comma, where an item was ‘id: name’. The items had to be sorted by the id. So…
Reporting Services – problem with passing parameters directly in the URL | Blinded by the lights
In one of the projects I had to create reports (using Reporting Services) that then should be accessible from the application I’ve been developing. As the first thing I created the reports themselves (RDL files), deployed them using the Report Manager (more often http://localhost/Reports or http://localhost/Reports$SQLExpress), and configured so I could access them. However, each…
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