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SSRS Subscription Error: Failure sending mail: The report server has...
So, when a SQL Server Reporting Services subscription gives you an error message like: "Failure sending mail: The report server has encountered a configuration error. Mail will not be resent." You know...
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Where is vsdbcmd.exe in Visual Studio 2012!?!
Looking for your old friend vsdbcmd.exe in visual studio 2012? There's good news and bad news. The bad news is it's gone and it's not coming back. (see this MSDN thread if you don't believe me). The...
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SSDT VS 2012 – Bringing an existing database under source control
Alright! You are the hero of your database team! You've received the okay to start using SQL Server Data Tools to manage one of your existing databases. You think to yourself: "Within a few minutes...
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SSDT – The object reference differs only by case from the object definition...
Well here's a Visual Studio SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) warning I haven't come across before. I suspect the problem occurs only when performing a join to an external database reference dacpac....
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SSDT – Pre and Post Deploy Script Markers And Flava Flav
I admit, this post is primarily to provide a place for me to copy and paste my own code, but it's so sweet I figured some of you other SQL Server Data Tool Users might find it handy. When...
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SSIS Export To UTF-8 or UNIX (or how to set your code page to output a flat...
As more and more companies are moving to heterogenous environments with both windows and unix systems the life of the Microsoft SQL Server developer is becoming much more interesting. For our recent...
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Which code page for UTF-8?
If you're trying to export data in Windows to a UTF-8 format you may be wondering which code page you should use. Well the riddle is solved. Code Page 65001 is the equivalent of UTF-8. If you need to...
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SQL Server To GreenPlum MPP/Postgres Transition
I'm working with a team building a data warehouse using Pivotal's GreenPlum MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) database which is based on PostgreSQL. Although, all the data modeling basics transition...
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Scheduling SSIS Packages With JAMS: Simple Not Easy
Scheduling SSIS packages to run via JAMS can be pretty tricky (especially compared to the plug and go of scheduling SSIS with the SQL Server Agent). Here are a few tips to get you started. Create a...
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SSIS: There Are Some Mapping Errors On This Path – Troubleshooting
Dear SQL Server Integration Services Team, Would it be possible to get a more specific error message than "There are some mapping errors on this path"? Your friend, Phil The tricky problem with this...
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Troubleshooting: SSIS error 0x00084005 “the parameter type cannot be deduced...
This is one scary looking error message: SSIS error 0x00084005 "the parameter type cannot be deduced because a single expression contains two untyped parameters @x and @P1" It's terrifying enough to...
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Troubleshooting: SSIS Unable to retrieve column information from the data...
As soon as I saw this error message I guessed the problem was related to using a temp table. What was surprising was that the error message actually said this but I didn't realize it until by chance I...
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SQL Server T-SQL To GreenPlum PostgreSQL Syntax Cheat Sheet
Learn Hadoop, MapReduce and BigData from Scratch at udemy.comHere's a quick translation from SQL Server's T-SQL to Pivotal's MPP GreenPlum PostgreSQL for some of the most commonly used syntax (i.e....
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How To Set Variables Using The SSIS Execute Package Utility
Learn Hadoop, MapReduce and BigData from Scratch at udemy.comYay! Theres a GUI to execute SSIS packages! Boo! It's really hard to figure out how to pass variables through it! You may have seen a...
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How Do I Figure Out My SSRS ReportServer URL If It Is Not The Default?
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Find Your SSRS Target Server URL
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View ArticleEasy SQL Server Snapshot Script / Proc
Man!!!! Why is the code to create a database snapshot so ridiculously complicated? Actually, I guess I understand why but how about allowing it to be done through SSMS and then setting a bunch of the...
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SSRS: Parse parameters column from ExecutionLog
Ever worked on a quick little project, come across what you assume is a common need and think "I'll just google up some code that someone else has written and then be off to the races"? Have you done...
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Tableau – Parse Parameters From URL
Well, file this under "just because you can doesn't mean you should." Search the forums on parsing strings with Tableau and you'll find a lot of guidance which pretty much says "don't do it!" and...
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