SQL 2012 :: Optimal Combination Of Tools For Flexible Reports
May 28, 2014
I would like to build a report with nice functionalities like filter, sorting, drill-down, something like a PowerPivot Table, but with some layout/design/format capabilities. I would also want to publish the report, refresh it let´s say once a week, notify users when a new version is available, etc.
If I use PowerPivot, then I am not able to customized the report or to mix data from different sources in one table.
If I convert the cells of the PowerPivot table to workbook formulas I lose the filter, sorting, etc functionalities.
I still have to try using Reporting Services, but I think that always something is missing.
I have a perfectly working application, accessing a SQL Express database, displaying data and images.
Now I am trying to add a Crystal Report. I add a new connection (OLE DB (ADO)) The connection points to my .MDF database. I drag the fields I want to print to the report, including an image. Now I click the Report Preview. I get a message saying "The database table "Table-Name" can not be found, Proceed to remove this table from the report?" Yes/No. I select NO, and the preview shows up correctly.
Happily I continue to execute the program in debug mode. At startup I get errors saying that login failed. To get around this error, I have to close down Visual Studio and then open it up again, running the program without touching the Crystal Report Design. Now the program starts up normaly without problems.
Now comes the real strange behavior. I click on my link to request the Crystal report and I get a request to login to the database. I try to login but nothing is accepted. I again close down Visual Studio and open up SQL Server Management Studio Express. I connect to SQL Express and expand "Databases" MY .MDF file is listed but the + sign in front of it is missing and I have to delete the database and attach it again to get it back.
Where is this problem occuring????? I have no idea. Please help.
I have a VM set up for offloading DBCC checks. Specs are below. I've read through this, but I'm not seeing the performance gains by enabling the trace flags and using the physical only switch.
Is the whole drawback that I'm on SATA storage? Is there a VM configuration with the CPU I can/should change? I've been playing with MAXDOP trying to see if I can get any benefits but I'm not seeing a much.
I need a query to produce permutation combination.
declare @t2 as table (tab varchar(100)) insert into @t2 values ('V') insert into @t2 values ('VL') insert into @t2 values ('1099') insert into @t2 values ('VOI')
declare @t1 as table (tab varchar(100)) insert into @t1 values ('I') insert into @t1 values ('U') from the above I need following output (attached output),
I have a scenario where I need to develop a stored proc to identify invalid input provided.
Following is a sample scenario
Create table product (ProductId varchar(10),SizeId int,ProductColor varchar(10)); insert into Product select 'Prod1',10,'Black' union ALL select 'Prod1',10,'BLue' union ALL select 'Prod2',20,'Green' union ALL select 'Prod2',10,'Black' ;
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In following TSql Code , Color and Size are optional. Both are provided as comma separated input. I have provided "bbc" as wrong color and "MM" as wrong size. I want to identify if color is invalid or size (MM is in valid for Black and Blue) and to set flag accordingly.
DOC_NO // REV_NO // FILE_NAME ABC123 // A // abc123.pdf ABC123 // B // abc123_2.docx ABC124 // A // abc124.xlsx ABC124 // A // - ABC125 // A // abc125.docx ABC125 // C // abc125.jpg ABC125 // C // abc125.docx ABC125 // C // - ABC126 // 0 // - ABC127 // A1 // abc127.xlsx ABC127 // A1 // abc127.pdf
I'm looking to select all rows where the DOC_NO and REV_NO appear only once.(i.e. the combination of the two values together, not any distinct value in a column)
I have written the sub query to filter the correct results;
SELECT DOC_NO, REV_NO FROM [MYTABLE] GROUP BY DOC_NO, REV_NO HAVING COUNT(*) =1
I now need to strip out the records which have no file (represented as "-" in the FILE_NAME field) and select the other fields (same table - for example, lets just say "ADD1", "ADD2" and "ADD3")
I was looking to put together a query like;
SELECT DOC_NO, REV_NO, FILE_NAME, ADD1, ADD2, ADD3 FROM [MYTABLE] WHERE FILE_NAME NOT LIKE '-' AND DOC_NO IN (SELECT DOC_NO, REV_NO FROM [MYTABLE] GROUP BY DOC_NO, REV_NO HAVING COUNT(*) =1)
But of course, DOC_NO alone being in the subquery select is not sufficient, as (ABC125 /A) is a unique combination, but (ABC125 /C) is not, but these results would be pulled in.
I also cannot simply add an additional "AND" clause on its own to make sure the REV_NO value appears in the subquery, because it is highly repetitive and would have to specifically match the DOC_NO)
What is the easiest way of ensuring that I only pull in the records where both the DOC_NO and REV_NO (combination) are unique, or is there a better way of putting this select together altogether?
A project I'm working on consists of a Main stored procedure which then runs about 30 nested procedures. The client wants to know when a certain nested SP fails, but wihtout rollbacks, as they may want to fix a data item manually (such as a missing Patient ID, that they have to call someone about). At this point, we don't want to roll back anything but halt the rest of the nested SP's and send out an email to someone that they have to check out a missing PatientID.
I'm wondering if an SSIS package would handle this better than just using a Stored Procedure. When that SP runs, it will also update a "Process tracking" table in the backend, that would update [Lastprocessran] with a number. I'm thinking that if they run the main SP again, after making a manual correction, that they could re-run the main SP, and it would bypass any step that already ran successfully based upon the [Lastprocessrun] number.
SQL Server 2012 Data Tools was working fine for me but something must've changed, now every time I try to create a new SSIS project I get:
The server threw an exception. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80010105 (RPC_E_SERVERFAULT)).
When I try to open an existing project I get:
exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation
external component has thrown an exception (SSISUpgrade)
The issue seems to only arise with SSIS projects.I have already uninstalled SQL Server 2012 and reinstalled it and that didn't work.I tried to install Visual Studio 2012 Data Tools with BI and that also crashes when I try to create an SSIS project.Output of SQL Server SELECT @@VERSION is:
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 - 11.0.2100.60 (X64) Feb 10 2012 19:39:15 Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation Enterprise Edition (64-bit) on Windows NT 6.2 <X64> (Build 9200: ) (Hypervisor)
SQL Data Tools page info:
Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services Designer Version 11.0.2100.60 Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Version 10.0.40219.1 SP1Rel Microsoft .NET Framework Version 4.5.51641 SP1Rel
Hi guys,Got a problem now :( please help...now we got a project handling records saved in a table in a sql2000(will upgraded to 2005 soon) server. every month around a millionrecords will be inserted.now user raised a request, that is, once criterios are matched, theproject should do some backend handle, for example, ifSELECT colID, fieldC, fieldD FROM dataTable WHERE fieldA ='fieldA_valueB'returns some recordset, for each @fieldC, @fieldD we shall do someback-end trick, maybeUPDATE dataTable SET fieldE = 'fieldE_valueF' WHERE fieldC = @fieldCAND fieldD = @fieldDlet's say such a rule is named as rule01. Hope I'm expressing theproblem clearly?my questoin is, shall we do this in Database side, using triggers, orby informing our .net project to do it?1. since the records are coming around 1 millison per month, how can wehandling the performance issue?2. now the rules are still somewhat simple, seems at least we could doit by EXEC or SP_EXECUTESQL. but rules may turn quite complex, forexample, audit log, or more complex issues, shall we do it in .netprogram? but how can a trigger in SQL database informing a .netprogram, or webservice, or windows service? by executeing an executableconsole program?3. user may raise more and more rules, how could we provied a flexiblesolution? i mean we're trying to build it less hard-coded. seems in sqldatabase EXEC or SP_EXECUTESQL are still somewhat flexible, while in..net to do something like eval() in javascript or EXEC in sql server isa little bit troublesome. but, put all these bussiness logic in storedprocedure sounds a little bit weired.guys, hope i have made myself clear. any suggestion? Thanks very mcuhyours,athos.
SET @propname = NULL -- can be Null or have wild card values
SELECT col1, col2, col3, propertyname FROM testtable where col1 = 1 and col2 = 2 and col3 = 3 and (@propname IS NULL OR propertyname LIKE @propname)
col1, col2, col3 are part of a clustered index
propertyname is a nonclustered index
This is the predicament. If the "@propname is NULL" is first in the OR statement then the query will use the clustered index for finding the record. If I put "@propname is NULL" last then it uses the propertyname index no matter what. So I either get full index scans if NULL is ever used on property names or I get consistent two second long searches on the clustered index. Any way to have the best of both worlds? Or do I have to divide up my query into more stored procedures?
Following an upgrade to SQL Server 2012, our shop's Schema Compare tool (Redgate SQL Compare) is no longer supporting our environment.We are starting to evaluate various 3rd party products to find a possible replacement, and would be interested in what products are favored by other IT shops who do a lot of database work.
Our shop is split about 75% SQL Server, 20% Oracle, and 5% I'll call other. Ideally a product would support SQL Server and Oracle, but our focus is on SQL server right now. On that platform we have ~50 servers spread across DevUATProd environments.In basic terms, we need a tool that can identify schema differences between DBs and generate synchronization scripts to support deploys between environments. Real-time synchronization is not a requirement (nor desirable), as deploys are a gated DBA function in our shop.
I am trying to transfer all jobs from one instance to another by using data tools. However, once i tried to make smo connection i am getting this error;
A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server.
In order to solve this issue i have tried these solutions;
1. SQL Server should be up and running. (OK) 2. Enable TCP/IP in SQL Server Configuration (OK) 3. Open Port in Windows Firewall (FW ACCEPTS ALL LOCAL PORTS) 4. Enable Remote Connection (CHECK OUT THE sp_configure SETTINGS, i even right-click instance then see from properties ) 5. Enable SQL Server Browser Service (sql server browser has been restarted) 6. Create exception of sqlbrowser.exe in Firewall (FW ACCEPTS ALL PROGRAMS) 7. I tried windows and sql authentication which has sysadmin role 8. INSTANCE name is also chekced millions of times
I have a bunch of packages in msdb. Is there any easier way to move those packages from msdb to DataTools/BIDS, instead of adding one package at a time using ADD option.
In the registry in Windows 10, I looked inside HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftMicrosoft SQL Server. Is LoginMode still in some subfolder of that, or has it been moved to another place? Perhaps a differently named key is now used. Or perhaps it's configured in a config file for SQL Sever 2012 express.
is there a way to change SSMS 2012 default query save location?
Scenario:
1. Open SSMS 2. Create new query 3. Click Save
I see "DocumentsSQL Server Management Studio" folder, but I want to change it to be "d:". How do I do this? I tried:
1. [URL]- in folder "DocumentsSQL Server Management StudioSettingsSQL Server Management Studio" there is a file NewSettings.vssettings, setting it to "d:" or "d:" didn't work.
2. Changing HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftMicrosoft SQL Server100ToolsShell VisualStudioProjectsLocation didn't work too. There is no "Shell" under "110Tools"
Did I do something wrong, or is there another way?
Please excuse what is probably a no-brainer, but here goes.Is there any difference, in terms of performance or any other pertinentfactor, between:SELECT * FROM tblCustomers INNER JOIN tblCustomerOrders ONtblCustomers.fldCustomerID = tblCustomerOrders.fldCustomerIDandSELECT * FROM tblCustomers, tblCustomerOrders WHEREtblCustomers.fldCustomerID = tblCustomerOrders.fldCustomerIDI note that if I type the latter into the SQL pane in a Data window,SQL Server replaces it with the former.TIAEdward--The reading group's reading group:http://www.bookgroup.org.uk
What is more efficient for a database design - a lot of tables with only a few records or a few tables with lots of records.
I'm starting a new site and each user will have numerous records but I'm not sure whether to have a few very large tables (over 100,000 rows) or start a new table for each user which would result in approx 1500 tables most of which would be the same table design with different rows.
I'm using SQL2000.
I guess this is quite a basic question, but I'm a bit unsure.
I have to make a new installation of an MS SQL 2000 EE on a Windows 2003 Std. Edt.
HW: --------------------- Dual Xeon 2,4 + 1 GB Ecc 1 x 32 MB Adaptec 2100S RAID Controller 2 x 18 GB 10K HD 4 x 18 GB 15K HD ---------------------
So far I have made following configuration.... --------------------- 2 x 18 GB 10K HD / RAID 1 - C:OS - D:MSSQL program files + System DB's (Master, pubs ect.)
4 x 18 GB 15K HD / RAID 5 - E:TempDB - F:Data + Logs --------------------- But I'm not sure that this is the optimal configuration, and I'm willing to start all over :)
So my q's are....... -------------------- Which RAID configuration would you suggest? Which partitions on the raids would you suggest? Which usage would you assign the various partitions? How do I move the system and temp db's? --------------------
I'm trying to find the optimal way of getting the timestamp of the last updated entry in an mssql database. A database is updated only about 5 times a minute, how ever a request for the time of the last entry could be around 1 per second. For this reason i was thinking of having a separate table which has a single row which is updated everytime a new entry is updated in the main table. I would then only need a simple SELECT statement and need very little processing power.
Is this the best method, or can you think of any others i could use?
I am working with a report generator that is based on SQL Server 2000 anduses ASP as the UI. Basically we have a set of reports that end users canexecute through a web browser. In general the model works fine, but we arerunning into some scaling issues.What I'm trying to determine is, what is the optimal configuration for thissystem. It is currently a 2.4G Pentium with a large RAID and 1G of RAM. Wehave been using the "fixed" memory configuration, allocating 864M to SQL.This is on a Windows 2003 server box.This works fine when a "small" query or two is executed, but the performancesuffers terribly when several users try to run reports in parallel. A singlequery might take 10 minutes to run if nothing else is happening on the box,but if additional users log on an run reports, it's almost impossible topredict when the queries will finish.I am also looking at the effect of database size on performance, runningtests against a database with 1 month, 3 months, and say 12 months of data,running the same query against 2 databases in parallel. With the originalconfiguration, the results were all over the place, with the 12 monthdatabase outperforming the smaller dbs, while other times there was littledifference. It seems that once the system starts paging, and paging heavily,it's over; the system never "recovers" and queries that previously ran in afew minutes now take hours.I added 3 G more memory to the system, and modified boot.ini to include the/3GB switch. Now when I run the same tests, the results are much moreconsistent, as the system rarely ever has to swap. Then again I've neverseen it go past 1.7G in Task manager, making me think that any more than say2.5G of memory is a waste?Things we are trying to determine are:- in the SQL Server memory configuration, is Fixed better than Dynamic? Wehave read that Dynamic is not good at returning memory to the OS once it'sbeen allocated- What else can we do to optimize the performance for this application? Itseems to me if the indexes are properly designed, the database sizeshouldn't have that much impact on performance, but this appears to be trueonly to a point. In comparing the execution plans between say a 12 month anda 3 month database, the plans are sometimes dramatically different. I assumethis is due to the optimizer deciding that going directly to the base tablesand not using an index will result in better performance, when in reality,this doesn't always appear to be true.- Are there other SQL Server switches I should be tweaking? Is there somenumber of simultaneous queries that this configuration should be limited to?- What about other versions of SQL Server (e.g. Enterprise, Data Center,etc) would these buy us anything?Thanks for any advice,-Gary
I have the following tableCREATE TABLE Readings(ReadingTime DATETIME NOT NULL DEFAULT(GETDATE()) PRIMARY KEY,Reading int NOT NULL)INSERT INTO Readings (ReadingTime, Reading) VALUES ('20050101', 1)INSERT INTO Readings (ReadingTime, Reading) VALUES ('20050201', 12)INSERT INTO Readings (ReadingTime, Reading) VALUES ('20050301', 15)INSERT INTO Readings (ReadingTime, Reading) VALUES ('20050401', 31)INSERT INTO Readings (ReadingTime, Reading) VALUES ('20050801', 51)INSERT INTO Readings (ReadingTime, Reading) VALUES ('20051101', 106)GO-- list the tableSELECT ReadingTime, Reading FROM ReadingsGOIt is a table of readings of a free-running counter that istime-stamped. I need to determine the value of the reading thatcorresponds to the closest date to the supplied dateAre there more optimal/efficient ways of accomplishing this than thefollowing?DECLARE @when DATETIMESET @when = '20050505'SELECT TOP 1 ReadingTime, Reading FROM ReadingsORDER BY abs(DATEDIFF(minute, ReadingTime, @when))The above gives me the desired result of ('20050401', 31).Any suggestions would be appreciated
I would like to know what options are available from BIOS / OS / SQL and server perspective when configuring or tuning a system with SQL Server 2000 or SQL Server 2005.
For example, I have a system with 4 dual-core Opteron CPUs on Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition. However, the OS sees 8 CPUs -- is this the optimal configuration or is it better (if even possible) to configure the system to see only 4 CPUs? The reason for this concern is due to performance problems faced deploying systems with Hyperthreading Technology.
Any documentation or examples in this regard would be very useful. Basically, what are the scenarios that would require a certain type of CPU configuration over another.
C# .Net Application as front end Sql Server2000 as back end
I need to merge an external dataset from .Net app(in XML format) with the information in database with one column in database table as the merging criteria. A situation similar to Left Outer Join, wherein i need all records from external dataset and if matched in database the corresponding values from there too, the only difference here is that the join is not between two Tables its between a table and external dataset. There is no need to store the external dataset in the database in persistent form, its just a query - merge - response operation.
So, can anyone suggest the best possible solution for this? A table variable / temporary table / some other schema, what and how?
Already have SQL2008 installed, and it works fine and great.Needed to install 2012 alongside for another project. Heard it should be fine to have both running. So I did. Installed MDS, DQS, SSIS, Service, and management tools. Launching SSMS 2012, when I click the "new query" button... I get the following error: library not registered. (exception from hresult:0x8002801D (type_e_libnotregistered))
If I connect object explorer to a server (local or otherwise), and try to script an object, it gives me the same error and then crashes the application. If I launch SSMS 2008, I can use it to connect to 2012 instance. So I know the instance and service are running correctly. It looks like its just the SSMS that is a problem.
I have created testreport.rdl using SQL Server 2012 SSRS. How to execute/call this through SQL query analyser, so that this will be executed and display output.
