Very often we make changes to the design of an underlying objects, used by views. After we do this, we need to refresh the views to apply the changes. In this example we will: 1. Create View 2. Change the design of an underlying object 3. Refresh all the views […]
Yearly Archives: 2015
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Working with multi-value parameters in SSRS is always fun. We need to pick a good delimiter, add additional values like “ALL” or “BLANKS” and many others. In the following few lines I explain a logics to add a multi-value parameter to SSRS with additional values (all) to not apply the […]
In a lot of situations we may not have permissions to use SQL Server Agent for automations of our back-end processes. I built a run-around that uses a Windows Scheduled Task, SQLCMD and Stored Procedure to run task. Work flow: 1. Windows Scheduled Task calls a .bat file at specific […]
Data Warehouse is “a system used for reporting and data analysis”. In general it is built by dim (dimension) and fact tables (structure and data tables). Here I create a stored procedure to build Date Dimension. Now it builds only calendar data and will be expanded to include “fiscal” data […]
I built a function for reporting purposes that shows the duration in hh:mm:ss between two datetime columns. It can be used in a reporting tool to show the data in a log. The max difference in DATEDIFF() is 68 years. Quick and extended calculation (every year is a leap year): 68 years […]