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SSRS Dropdown parameter cannot be blank!
SQL Server Reporting Services

SSRS Dropdown parameter cannot be blank!

I have created an SSRS report which can compare 4 reports side by side and brings up their latest execution times to the nearest millisecond. The report has 4 parameters. Each parameter is a dropdown populated by a list of all available reports.

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MySQL Group_concat equivalent in T-SQL and Oracle
Databases

MySQL Group_concat equivalent in T-SQL and Oracle

MySQL is just the best Unfortunately I make a living using Microsoft and Oracle products. I shouldn't say unfortunately as I don't see myself doing any other job and it beats daytime television any day. I use this quite a lot so I thought I'd put an article here somewhere. Based on the following concept: RowID column_t...

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How to Display Report Execution Time in SSRS (milliseconds)
SQL Server Reporting Services

How to Display Report Execution Time in SSRS (milliseconds)

How 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 submitted parameter) to run. Lifted from Dattatray Sindol's blog Ot...

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SSRS Zero Padding
SQL Server Reporting Services

SSRS Zero Padding

Quick Reminder I didn't want to do this at the database level, mainly because it meant modifying the SQL query. The zero padding would need to be applicable within an MDX query. The Situation We have a database using Oracle 10g, and a SQL Server Reporting Services v2008 R2 environment. My use for this was when displayi...

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SSRS AlphaNumeric Parameter Validation
SQL Server Reporting Services

SSRS AlphaNumeric Parameter Validation

Intro If you ever want to check the parameters submitted with a report for alpha numeric characters (so it doesn't contain symbols, punctuations, etc) then you should do this at the database level, and then get the report to complete the check: The Plan User enters value in parameters and clicks on "View Report" Report...

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SSRS Retrieving Oracle Stored Procedure Success or ErrorLevel
SQL Server Reporting Services

SSRS Retrieving Oracle Stored Procedure Success or ErrorLevel

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 which Updates a timestamp in an existing table Inserts a row into an...

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