Tag Archives: Reporting Services

Large Chunks of Data

Posted on April 3, 2015 by

This editorial was originally published on Sept 17, 2010. It is being re-run as Steve is on vacation. I saw a post recently where someone talked about trying to get better performance from a report. They were selecting 5mm rows … Continue reading →

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Reporting on Data

Posted on July 9, 2013 by

I would think that most DBAs and SQL developers out there realize they need to understand some basic statistics and mathematics to write meaningful reports for their customers. Since many of us write our reports in T-SQL, if we correctly … Continue reading →

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When To Touch

Posted on August 24, 2010 by

When can you modify a database that supports some third party product? Steve Jones has a few thoughts and warns you to be careful. Continue reading →

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Rating Bugs

Posted on August 23, 2010 by

How do you triage and rate the bugs that come in for software? How should Microsoft do this for SQL Server. Steve Jones has a few comments. Continue reading →

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