What?
This article details a method we used on a search form in a SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) environment. The requirement (amongst others) was that the report ran in less than a few seconds.

Analyzing the report through the ReportServer databases (internal auditing) only showed how long the SQL query would take to recover the data and present it in a report, which would average about 0.4 seconds.

We're obviously not interested in shaving off time from 0.4 seconds; no, we're more interested in the fact that 0.4 Microsoft seconds seems to translate to about 10 minutes in the real world. Where do the extra 9 minutes come from? Not the SQL as this runs in 00:00 seconds in SQL Server Management Studio. Not the internal processing and rendering as the report server says it did this in 0.4 seconds. So where's the problem?

How?

What?
A quick note on how to compare two columns for values that are not found in another. I have a column with old values, and now that I have a new list, I want a quick way to see what values are in the old column and which ones are new...

Why?
Consider the 3 following columns in an Excel spreadsheet:
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Old       New       Exists in Old?
--------- --------- --------------
123456    234567
234567    345678
345678    456789
567890    597890
  1.  Old       New       Exists in Old? 
  2.  --------- --------- -------------- 
  3.  123456    234567 
  4.  234567    345678 
  5.  345678    456789 
  6.  567890    597890 
I want the third column to say whether this is new or not.

How?
Category: Excel :: Article: 551

What?
A very quick note on why borders may be misbehaving in SSRS. This note corrects the situation at Design time. This is where you are trying to select a cell to have an outline border but then cells around it without a border. You may find that BIDS or Report Builder (however you're building your report) will apply the border to some cells and sometimes a whole section of the report with just one border???

How?

Applies to:
  • Microsoft Business Intelligence Development Studio 2008 (BIDS)
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2
What?
This article describes solutions to the error:
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cannot be created because the credentials used to run the report are not stored, or if a linked report, the link is no longer valid.


How?

What?
This is a quick article on how to convert some cells in Microsoft Excel to number values...

Why?
OMG. Seriously Microsoft! I have spent an hour trying to convert a column of currency values to a number using Microsoft Excel 2010. Since when did MS Excel stop understanding what a NUMBER was?

I have a column full of currency values which I want to convert, specifically Philippine pesos to British pounds (sterling). When I multiply the Philippine peso by the conversion rate, it returns #VALUE!

How?
The problem is that I have a column which includes the currency symbol as per the following image:

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

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?

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

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:


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"):

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