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I need to setup a weekly report for one of my customers. The report can be manually run by executing a T-SQL statement and copy the result to Excel. After copying, it’s emailed to the client. By using sp_send_dbmail attachment options, you can automate this process.

De tweede preview van Microsoft SQL Server 2016 “Mission-Critical Applications, Deeper Insights, Hyperscale Cloud” is te downloaden.

Het woord “Data Warehouse” klinkt behoorlijk spannend! Het doet vermoeden dat het een ingewikkeld gebeuren is, een soort pakhuis of verzameling met data. Eigenlijk is een data warehouse een database net als alle andere “gewone databases”. Men noemt het een “warehouse” omdat je er meer in bewaart dan in een …

A linked server is used to connect to another (remote) database or file (Xls, CVX) using SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) and discover the data or objects. You can write SQL queries from your SSMS directly on a database on another machine. In Oracle they call it DBLinks (Database Links).

I found this cool ascii text generator website today. You can use it to generate cool banners to use in your documentation or code comments.

In my daily work, I need to calculate and report the age of people very often. There are a couple of ways to calculate the age and will give you the right result. I do not recommend a SQL Function to to this. SQL Functions are performing very slow, especially …

This article will offer you a way to calculate a 4 week moving total in SQL using SQL Server. There are more ways to Rome but this is a way you can use to calculate it using a date dimension.

A common wish in SQL Server Reporting is to create an image with a text inside the image. When you are a common user of SSRS, you know this is not so easy. You cannot simply insert an image and a text on top of it. Your layout will be …

I had some subscriptions staying in the “Pending” LastStatus. It took me a lot of time to fix this problem. This blog will give you the solution for the  problem.

Like the title says; my SSAS OLAP cube (SQL 2008R2) was giving me wrong results when selecting a combination of a measure and a fact. I was struggling for days with this issue. I called old colleagues, reading a lot of articles online but no solution yet.

I know it was not difficult to implement dimension security in Analysis Services.  While it’s not difficult, why did it cost me a lot of days to get this to work? Well, its because you have to do a lot of little settings and it’s easy to make a small mistake …

In a previous post, I wrote about how to prevent the divide by zero issues in Reporting Services. The problem with the custom code I used was that the code returned the value 0 when one of the numbers is 0 or unknown.

A common question in the Business Intelligence world from customers is “how many customers did we lose this year” ? Businesses wants to know this so they can act faster to keep customers doing business with them. In this article, I will help you to create SQL to calculate this …