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SSRS External Images don't display
SQL Server Reporting Services

SSRS External Images don't display

The Situation We want some photos taken from another website of ours to display in our report. These are not stored locally on the Reporting Server because other services use these photos on our Intranet and we only want one location to upload the photos. These images are provided via a website address (http) or networ...

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Excel PivotTable Filter List Ordering
Excel

Excel PivotTable Filter List Ordering

So I googled this for a while and there are a lot of solutions out there, none of which applied to what we meant and lots of people in the same boat. The Situation We have an Excel report which summarizes for our guys at the top, all the activities and time spent by staff. There are several filters available on the rep...

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SSRS Parameters in Oracle Stored Procedure
SQL Server Reporting Services

SSRS Parameters in Oracle Stored Procedure

I'm storing a note here because it took a while to figure out and googling other solutions did not answer our questions but did lead us to a workaround. So this is regarding an error when trying to add parameters to a Stored Procedure of an Oracle database from within Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services. The Error...

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Before and After, Highs and Lows
SQL Server Reporting Services

Before and After, Highs and Lows

So I'm looking for a SQL query that could do this all in one go and return all the results in one table. With PHP & MySQL it's pretty simple: use individual SQL queries to get the count of yesterday, yesterweek, yestermonth, yesteryear and do the layout in PHP. Now let's say I have one RDL or SSRS Solution. I could do...

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SSRS / MDX Date Queries
SQL Server Reporting Services

SSRS / MDX Date Queries

So I find myself using date ranges endlessly as I've been working in SSRS. The below is derived from a collection of various sources across the web as well as some of my own. These are what worked in my environment: WinXP, BIDS (vs2008), TFS (vs2010), SSRS 2008 R2. The following examples assume today's date is Wednesda...

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Increase Recent Documents Number in Windows XP
Windows OS

Increase Recent Documents Number in Windows XP

Just a quick note here. This is an article based on the REG file from Kelly's Korner (@www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm). I'm not fond of downloading REG files and running them even if I have checked what it's doing. I'm putting a note here just for me: Start > Run > Regedit > OK Browse to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Softw...

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Sort order a dropdown list in MS InfoPath without programming
Infopath

Sort order a dropdown list in MS InfoPath without programming

So this is for Microsoft Office Infopath 2007 (SharePoint 2007). The situation is that I started creating a SharePoint List (datasheet) and when I made my form dropdown read from the list, it just put elements in the order that I entered them in the datasheet. Googling this led me to browse MSDN for an hour before I re...

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SSRS Querying on either of 2 Parameters
SQL Server Reporting Services

SSRS Querying on either of 2 Parameters

The situation is that we are replacing a website-application with a single SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS 2008 R2) report. We're using Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS VS2008) with Team Foundation Server (TFS VS2010) and connecting to an Oracle database (ie. "seamless integration because our setup is...

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