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  1. SSIS: Add Reference Microsoft.SqlServer.TxScripthttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/ssis-add-reference-microsoft-sqlserver-txscript.html?catid=74&Itemid=165

    What? This article is so that I don't spend so long in googling what the TxScript referenced assembly is when creating an SSIS custom component. How? This is simply the "Script Component" under "Extensions". No MSDN website said this... obvious to...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SQL Server Integration Services
    • Language: en-GB
  2. SSIS: Cannot open Data Flow Task: DTS.Pipeline.2 issuehttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/ssis-cannot-open-data-flow-task-dts-pipeline-2-issue.html?catid=74&Itemid=165

    What? I started getting this error: The task with the name "Data Flow Task" and the creation name "DTS.Pipeline.2" is not registered for use on this computer Why? We use a combination of MS Visual Studio 2008, 2010 and 2012. VS2008 for our old SSIS...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SQL Server Integration Services
    • Language: en-GB
  3. SSRS Report Builder 2.0 - Error during processinghttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/ssrs-report-builder-20-error-during-processing.html?catid=75&Itemid=165

    The Issue After modifying a report and on running it, Report Builder 2.0 returns the following error: An error occurred during local report processing. An error has occurred during report processing. Query execution failed for dataset 'DataSet1'. The...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
    • Language: en-GB
  4. If Then Else in Report Builder 2.0 Expressionshttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/if-then-else-in-report-builder-20-expressions.html?catid=75&Itemid=165

    Yes, well don't laugh, I could not find this on the WWW so I was obviously not using Google properly. Anyway here's just a quick note on how to do if else statements in Report Builder 2.0 I'm looking at the following if statement: If (MyFieldName = 0)...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
    • Language: en-GB
  5. Change Regional Settings for your Reporthttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/change-regional-settings-for-your-report.html?catid=75&Itemid=165

    Basically I thought that the regional settings of a report generated using Report Builder 2.0 on a MS SQL Server 2008 instance were dependent on either the server or the client machine. Realised that this was actually specified in the report. Here's a...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
    • Language: en-GB
  6. SSRS Expand specific drilldown by defaulthttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/ssrs-expand-specific-drilldown-by-default.html?catid=75&Itemid=165

    I thought I'd put something here as there are lots of posts like this on forums (a lot of which seem to be copied & pasted from other sites) but they refer to SQL Server 2000 or SQL Server 2005. This is how to do it in SQL Server 2008 and creating a...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
    • Language: en-GB
  7. Border settings not saving in SSRShttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/border-settings-not-saving-in-ssrs.html?catid=75&Itemid=165

    This may sound silly to some but I've written a note because I spent time googling and still didn't find an answer. My situation is that I wanted to put an expression to format the border (empty cells have a border and non-empty don't). This was so that...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
    • Language: en-GB
  8. SSRS - Lost window with datasetshttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/ssrs-lost-window-with-datasets.html?catid=75&Itemid=165

    Re: Business Intelligence Development Studio 2008 Often happens to me and not sure why. You open the project and the window panel for the Report Data containing the parameters and datasets isn't there. I spent a bit of time enabling/disabling toolbars...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
    • Language: en-GB
  9. SSRS Templates in BIDS 2008https://joellipman.com/component/content/article/ssrs-templates-in-bids-2008.html?catid=75&Itemid=165

    Open a Windows Explorer and make a duplicate of the report that you want to use as a template. Rename the copy (suffix with template?) Remove objects unique to the report and leave elements for all reports. File > Save selected item as... For SSRS...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
    • Language: en-GB
  10. SSRS Use T-SQL Like with a Parameterhttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/ssrs-use-t-sql-like-with-a-parameter.html?catid=75&Itemid=165

    This must have been so obvious to everyone else that nobody bothered to write an article on it... till now. Situation I have a report that returns room bookings based on a user and given a date range. The problem is that there are a few thousand users...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
    • Language: en-GB
  11. Set default parameter dates to start and end of monthhttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/set-default-parameter-dates-to-start-and-end-of-month.html?catid=75&Itemid=165

    Situation The requirement in a lot of my reports in SSRS has always been a date range rather than just the one date. The user must be allowed to select all results between two dates instead of just specifying the one day. If the second parameter...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
    • Language: *
  12. SSRS Repeat Headers in PDF Reporthttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/ssrs-repeat-headers-in-pdf-report.html?catid=75&Itemid=165

    The Problem I've set some tablix headers but when I request the same report in PDF format, the tablix headers only appear once on the first page. Every subsequent page simply displays the report header (which does not include the tablix header......

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
    • Language: en-GB
  13. Reminder on SSRS row separatorhttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/reminder-on-ssrs-row-seperator.html?catid=75&Itemid=165

    My Setup XP SP3 Workstation Business Intelligence Development Studio 2008 (BIDS) SQL Server Reporting Services 2008 R2 (SSRS) What do I want? I have a report displaying room bookings. Each row lists the day, date, room name, start/finish times, booking...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
    • Language: en-GB
  14. SSRS Subscriptions cannot be createdhttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/ssrs-subscriptions-cannot-be-created.html?catid=75&Itemid=165

    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,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
    • Language: en-GB
  15. SSRS Border Problemhttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/ssrs-border-problem.html?catid=75&Itemid=165

    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...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
    • Language: en-GB
  16. SSRS Change Background Color of Imagehttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/ssrs-change-background-color-of-image.html?catid=75&Itemid=165

    What? Sounds easy but actually if you use an image which has transparent areas, ie. has one color which will be transparent, the transparent pixels will be colored in with the page background color. Why? I want an image to display per row as a status...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
    • Language: en-GB
  17. SSRS No Delay for First Report of the Dayhttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/ssrs-no-delay-for-first-report-of-the-day.html?catid=75&Itemid=165

    What? This article describes a solution our reporting server administrators found to cut the loading time of the first report of the day. Why? Take any SSRS report, if one of us was the first to run it on that day, it would take an additional 60 seconds...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
    • Language: en-GB
  18. SSRS Display question mark when date is blankhttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/ssrs-display-question-mark-when-date-is-blank.html?catid=75&Itemid=165

    Applies to: Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services 2012 Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 Premium Microsoft Windows 7 Enterprise What? So I have a column in an SSRS report which displays a date. Being rather pernickety, I would like a question mark to...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
    • Language: en-GB
  19. UNC Paths in Sharepoint 2007 linkshttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/unc-paths-in-sharepoint-2007-links.html?catid=77&Itemid=165

    Applies to Microsoft Office Sharepoint 2007 What? I've been tasked with adding links to files located on some network shares. I want to use UNC paths such as \\myServer\myShare\myFile.doc. I could map the UNC path to a drive letter and then link to it...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SharePoint
    • Language: *
  20. About 5 seconds worth of funhttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/about-5-seconds-worth-of-fun.html?catid=77&Itemid=165

    What? Really not work related but if you know your sharepoint site: Custom Error http:///_layouts/MySite.aspx?Error=You%20are%20a%20jerk%20and%20SharePoint%20does%20not%20share%20with%20jerks. Installer? http:///userdisp.aspx=ID=1 Paying attention to...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SharePoint
    • Language: *
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