Report on all SQL installations?

Hi
Could anyone recommend a good existing report in SCCM to find all existing SQL installations? I have Asset Intelligence in place, I've read of good reports there for this, but none suggested.Thnkas

There is nothing builtin that will help you out, but this post of Sherry should get you somewhere:
http://www.mnscug.org/blogs/sherry-kissinger/328-installed-sql05-sql08-sql12-sql14-version-information-via-configmgr-hardware-inventory
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You might be able to use software inventory to report on the version of sqldeveloper.exe.
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[Forum FAQ] How do I disable all subscriptions without disabling Reporting Services and SQL Server Agent?

Introduction
There is the scenario that users configured hundreds of subscriptions for reports. Now they want to disable all the subscriptions, but Reporting Services and SQL Server Agent service should be enable, so the subscriptions will not delivery reports to users
and users could run the reports and create jobs on the server.
Solution
To achieve this requirement, we need to list all subscriptions and their schedules by running query, then use loop statement to disable all the subscription schedules by Job name.
On the Start menu, point to All Programs, point to Microsoft SQL Server instance, and then click SQL Server Management Studio.
Type Server name and select Authentication, click Connect.
Click New Query in menu to open a new Query Editor window.
List all subscriptions and their schedules by running the following query:
Use ReportServer
go
SELECT   c.[Name] ReportName,
s.ScheduleID JobName,
ss.[Description] SubscriptionDescription,
ss.DeliveryExtension SubscriptionType,
c.[Path] ReportFolderPath,
row_number() over(order by s.ScheduleID) as rn
into
#Temp
FROM
ReportSchedule rs
INNER JOIN Schedule s ON rs.ScheduleID = s.ScheduleID
INNER JOIN Subscriptions ss ON rs.SubscriptionID = ss.SubscriptionID
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select * from #temp
Use the loop statement to disable all the subscription schedules by Job name:
DECLARE
@count INT,
@maxCount INT
SET @COUNT=1
SELECT @maxCount=MAX(RN)
FROM
#temp
DECLARE
@job_name VARCHAR(MAX)
WHILE @COUNT <=@maxCount
BEGIN
SELECT @job_name=jobname FROM #temp WHERE RN=@COUNT
exec msdb..sp_update_job @job_name = @job_name,@enabled = 0
SET @COUNT=@COUNT+1   P
RINT @job_name
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PRINT @COUNT
Reference
SQL Agent – Disable All Jobs
Applies to
Reporting Services 2008
Reporting Services 2008 R2
Reporting Services 2012
Reporting Services 2014
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Thanks,
Is this a supported scenario, or does it use unsupported features?
For example, can we call exec [ReportServer].dbo.AddEvent @EventType='TimedSubscription', @EventData='b64ce7ec-d598-45cd-bbc2-ea202e0c129d'
in a supported way?
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Custom report of Full SQL Server Installation using ConfigMgr 2012 R2

I am trying to create a custom SQL report that would return servers and workstations that have a full version of SQL installed. The queries I try return clients that have the management tools and etc installed, but I just need a report that shows full
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For some good information about your SQL installation you can use something like this:
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Report Based on SQL view not pulling in all parameters

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I based a report on a SQL view below:SELECT TOP (100) PERCENT CorpDirectory.Position, CorpDirectory.PhoneDirect, CorpDirectory.Email, CorpDirectory.Store, CorpDirectory.Name, CorpDirectory.PhoneFaxWave, CorpDirectory.Department, Store.StoreName, Store.StoreStreetAddress, Store.StoreCity, Store.StoreState, Store.StoreZip, Store.StorePhone, CorpDirectory.DisplayOrderFROM dbo.CorpDirectory AS CorpDirectory INNER JOIN dbo.Store AS Store ON CorpDirectory.Store = Store.StoreORDER BY CorpDirectory.Store, CorpDirectory.Department, CorpDirectory.DisplayOrder, CorpDirectory.Name When the report was created the order by sequence only brought in the first parameter of CorpDirectory.Store. It seemed to ignore the other three order by parameters. I am running 10.2 is VS2005.

Sharmila,
Thanks for your response. Maybe I wasn't clear enough in my previous statement. I will give an example of what I am trying to accomplish.
Let's say I have 2 date fields(SUBMITDATE,COMPLETEDATE) in a table TABLE A
I want to calculate a field called CYCLETIME with the following conditions:
If COMPLTEDATE is NULL, then CYCLETIME = SYSDATE-SUBMITDATE
IF COMPLTEEDATE is not null, then CYCLETIME = COMPLTEEDATE-SUBMITDATE
Would appreciate any help.
Thanks
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Hi,
You can do the calculation in the sql query itself. Here is an example which shows the sum of salaray for each department in the scott.emp table.
select deptno,sum(sal) sal
from scott.emp
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Service Pack 3 appears to have broken the Report Builder click once installation

We are running SQL Server reporting services on SQL Server 2008 R2. Recently we installed the service pack 3 and we now get the following error when a user clicks the Report Builder link:
Application validation did not succeed. Unable to continue.
And from the Log:
ERROR DETAILS
Following errors were detected during this operation.
* [10/14/2014 9:04:32 AM] System.Deployment.Application.InvalidDeploymentException (HashValidation)
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  - Source: System.Deployment
  - Stack trace:
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   at System.Deployment.Application.ComponentVerifier.VerifyFileHash(String filePath, HashCollection hashCollection)
   at System.Deployment.Application.ComponentVerifier.VerifyComponents()
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notification, DownloadOptions options)
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R2 and ironically enough, this is what appears to have broken the click once installer.

Hi Matt,
This is an known issue in SSRS 2008 R2 SP3. For this issue, Microsoft has published an article addressing this issue. It is not planning to release a fix for this defect. But there's workarounds for this issue. Please refer to the link below:
Report Builder of SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 3 does not launch.
If you have any question, please feel free to ask.
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Reporting Services - All Datasets Broken

Hello there.
We’re having some problems with Reporting Services on a prod site and I was hoping someone might be able to offer a suggestion.
Here are the facts :
We have a SP Server 2010 (not foundation) farm which uses Reporting Services. There is 1 web / application server and 1 SQL server. Reporting Services 2008 R2 is installed on the SQL box.
Sometime in the last 2 weeks the reports all stopped working (last known report run 2 weeks ago). This was picked up yesterday. I'm not aware of anything being manually changed in the farm to cause this.
The reports report directly on SP lists using datasets with SharePoint data connections. There is one dataset per list.
The SQL / Reporting Services box has previously had SP installed on it (Ouch! Inherited system – not sure why SP was installed on SQL box).
A few weeks ago we stopped all SP services on the SQL box but did not uninstall SP from it. This did not affect reporting at the time.
When a report fails, we see this message in the UI :
Looking in the reporting services log messages are like the following, one per dataset :
Query execution failed for dataset 'DataSet1'. ---> System.ArgumentException: Feature '22d91f57-00d1-4e0b-9c04-863a82deaa07' for list template '10001' is not installed in this farm.
The operation could not be completed.
This happens for all datasets for all reports. All datasets are complaining that the feature for the list the data set uses is missing. These are features with list definitions / instances for the lists used in the reports.
The initial thought was that someone had renamed a field or similar, but this would only impact that one dataset. What we are seeing is that
all datasets simultaneously broke.
The features Reporting Services are complaining about are indeed activated in SP in the relevant webs.
On the SQL box the folders for the features Reporting Services are complaining about are not present in the 14 hive at C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\TEMPLATE\FEATURES, but then as far as I know they never were. On
our dev environment we deleted these feature folders but this didn't reproduce the same error.
We modified an unrelated SP list view yesterday via the SP UI. It’s unlikely but I wonder if there is some kind of list definition XML / voodoo behind the scenes that was interrupted by this.
If you open the broken report in Report Builder directly from SP (via the list context menu), you can run the datasets OK, and do a test connection for the data source - but if you run the report itself you get the usual error. If I use Report Builder on
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Things I've tried so far (my infrastructure experience amounts to restart things until they work):
App pool recycle web server.
IISReset web server.
Restart reporting service on SQL box.
Delete the view I thought might have been somehow related.
In summary I have no idea what the root cause is here or what has changed recently. I’m a
programmer and someone else who is no longer available set up this environment so I’m a bit stuck!
Thanks for reading.
Lee

We've resolved this.
It turns out the features it was complaining about really were missing on the Reporting Services box and needed to be present. I wrongly concluded this wasn't the problem initially when we deleted these features on a dev box, restarted a few things and reports
didn't break. I guess something was still being cached somewhere.
Best guess as to why the features went away is that when we disabled all of the SP services on the reporting services box via Central Admin, one of these (probably SharePoint Foundation Web Application), all custom features / solutions were removed
from the box.
Moral of the story I think is make sure your reporting services box is a valid part of the SP farm and has all required features present.
Cheers
Lee

Invoking XML Publisher Report from PL/SQL

Hi,
I have a PL/SQL procecedure which invokes the Concurrent Request for the XML Publisher Report. This one finishes with a warning and I get 'Unable to publish output' when I try to view the output. Exact Error: "Unable to find the published output for this request "
But if I run the same report using Concurrent program, the Report executes with no error. Also the desired output is coming. I am not sure where I am doing wrong in code.
My code which invokes the XML Publisher Report (from PL/SQL package)is something like this:
declare
x boolean;
l_no_of_copies varchar2(45);
l_printername varchar2(45);
l_print_style varchar2(45);
l_result boolean;
y number;
begin
x := fnd_request.add_layout (template_appl_name => 'XXTMG', template_code => 'XXT_5001_BOL_T', template_language => 'EN', template_territory => 'US', output_format => 'XML');
l_no_of_copies := fnd_profile.VALUE ('XXTMG_SH_BOL_REPORT_NO_OF_COPIES');
l_printername := fnd_profile.VALUE ('XXTMG_SH_BOL_REPORT_PRINTER');
l_print_style := NULL; --For setting the Printer Options
l_result := fnd_request.set_print_options (l_printername, l_print_style, l_no_of_copies, TRUE, 'N');
l_result := fnd_request.add_printer (l_printername, 0);
y := fnd_request.submit_request ('XXTMG', 'XXT_5001_BOL', '', TO_CHAR (SYSDATE, 'YYYY/MM/DD HH24:MI:SS'), FALSE, 'CH-120079') ;
end;
Please let me know where I might be going wrong
Thanks

Hi Sumit,
You can try with this code:
exec dbms_application_info.set_client_info(org_id)
exec fnd_global.APPS_INITIALIZE(user_id,resp_id,appl_id);
declare
x boolean;
l_no_of_copies varchar2(45);
l_printername varchar2(45);
l_print_style varchar2(45);
l_result boolean;
y number;
begin
x := fnd_request.add_layout ('XXTMG' --template_appl_name
          ,'XXT_5001_BOL_T' --template_code
          ,'en' --template_language
     ,'US' --template_territory
     ,'XML' --output_format
if (x=TRUE) then
y := fnd_request.submit_request (
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                    ,'XXT_5001_BOL'      --program
                    ,SYSDATE          --start_time
                    ,FALSE               --sub_request
                    ,'CH-120079'          --argument1 (Program's Parameter)
if y>0 then
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end if;
end if; --if (x=TRUE) then
end;
Make sure that program has only one input parameter. If program has other parameters then you can pass those parameters like argument1, argument2... etc.
Now you can see this submited request in your application using your user id. If you able to see your request in concurrent request then you can add printer parameters in this programs.
You don't need to pass all 100 parameters.
I am executing many programs/reports using this code.
Thanks
Ravi
[email protected]
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Ravi Tripathi

Execute report from pl/sql procedure

hi all
please, can i know whether there's any way to execute a report from pl/sql stored procedure??
thank you.

Hallo,
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Regards
Marcus

Calling Report Through PL/SQL

Hi All,
Is it possible to call a report through PL/SQL?If yes, please help me in this regard.
Thanks.
Vinay Kumar Garg

Hi,
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Check out the following:
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REPORT ON PL/SQL TABLE OF RECORDS on 6i & 9i

HELLO ALL,
I Want to know if it is posible to build a report on pl/sql
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This should not happen. If you are not sure that your stored procedure is bug-free, you could generate and use stored procedures using my SQLPlusPlus and give it a try.
You can email me directly if your problem still not gets solved.
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Export to Excel from Report region (pl/sql returning sql query)

Hello all,
I have encountered an interesting problem. I have an HTMLDB application with a lot of sql reports coded straight inside the report region. In order to better organize my reports, I decided to
1. make all my report regions of type "Pl/Sql function returning SQL query"
2. create a package inside my database schema which houses all reports as pl/sql functions returning VARCHAR2, the string returned being the report query
3. just calling "return package_name.function_name" from inside my report region of type "Pl/sql function returning SQL query".
This technique seemed to work perfectly. The reports were being returned as expected. I was then asked to provide the "Export to Excel" capability to all my reports. This seemed like a piece of cake using HTML DB's "Export to Excel" extension. However, the "export to excel" does not function correctly when my reports are inside a package in the database. HTML DB tries to export but inside the excel spreadsheet, instead of seeing row data, I see:
<pre>failed to parse SQL query:
ORA-00936: missing expression
<!-- select a.username, b.table_name, 'View Row Data' from schema_browser_user_list a, all_tables b where a.user_id = and a.username = b.owner order by b.table_name asc
--!>
</pre>
I am building my query string inside of my package functions by using a combination of literal strings and concatenating them with some parameter values being passed in. It seems that the HTML DB engine which exports the report to excel does not properly understand the concatenation of variables as can be seen by the empty space to the right of the equal sign in the "a.user_id = " clause. Does anybody have any input as to whether this is a known issue or if I am doing something wrong? Thanks a lot for your time.
- Kenny R.

James,
Thanks for the quick reply. I think you mis-understood what I'm doing. All I'm doing is creating packaged functions which return VARCHAR2. The VARCHAR2 that they return is the report query. With this technique, I no longer have to type the query into the HTML DB report region. Instead, I make the report region a "Pl/sql function returning sql query" and make the following call: return package_name.function_name(some_application_items passed in as parameters)
This makes for a much more organized html db app. The problem is that the "export to excel" function does not correctly interpret the VARCHAR2 that my packaged functions are returning. Is this a better explanation? Thanks again for your time.
- Kenny R.

Creating XML report using PL/SQL Stored Procedure

Hi Friends,
I am working on an xml report with the xml source as PL/SQL Stored Procedure.
I am referring the exercise shown in the following link to understand the process:
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In the example shown in the above link I could not understand the following:
1) In the following procedure, the out parameter 'retcode' is not used at all.
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2) After the xml data is prepared and put to 'l_result' Clob variable, the following
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            fnd_file.put_line (fnd_file.output, l_xmlstr);
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              INTO l_xmlstr
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         END IF;
     END LOOP;
3) In the example it is not explained how the concurrent program gets the xml data?
   I assume it is written to a file using the following line of code:
    fnd_file.put_line (fnd_file.output, l_xmlstr);
   I would appreciate if anyone can throw some light into my above queries so that I can understand the process clearly.
Thanks & Regards
Hawker

Hi 32000 in the code is a 'safe' size smaller than the max available 32767, the loops purpose is to move through the entire thing in chunks that will be manageable in the limits of the data type.
Btw; if you are in Oracle e-business suite then you can also use Oracle reports very simply to create XML output.
If you have reports developer all you need to do is put raw sql (without any 'artifice' to create XML) in the report SQL and then set the reports output to XML in the program definition in Oracle e-business.
best regards,
Robert.

Need to run the report for All Values when Null is passed in parameter

Hi All,
In my BIP report, I am using a parameter :asset with Type as Text, which means user will type the values for the parameter in the text box.
Now, this parameter can take multiple comma separated values. I have a requirement to run the report for All Values when user doesn't enter any value in the parameter text box and if user enters any value(s) then the report will run for those values . The way, I tried to handle that in the query using couple of ways was :
IMP : My Database is SQL Server
where
(table.asset = isnull((:asset), table.asset) or table.asset in (:asset))
Now this works fine when I give a single asset number but when I give multiple values separated by comma like 123, 345 in the text box, then the statement fails saying 'encountered ,'
I also tried simply
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Thanks,
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thanks for replying, but i tried this option too, it did not work for me, neither isnull nor coalesce. I mean, the solution work for single value but when i pass multiple values then separated by a comma then it doesn't work and shows me an error like "Incorrect Syntax ','". I am using SQL server as DB and bip is 10.1.3.4.1
also please share the SR number, so i can also check the same.
can there be any other work around to this?
thanks,
ronny

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Below is a summary of the medal winners for May. The last column being a few of the comments from the judges.
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NN: "Good and interesting article based on the blog"
GO: "Wonderful article!"
PT: "This is an important topic and contains helpful information but this is a simple topic that can be explained in fewer words. I found this article to be overly detailed and hard to read. I suggest having it reviewed and edited for
proper language."
Ed Price: "Good descriptions. Could be shorter. Good use of images!"
SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - May 2014
Shanky
Curious Case Of Logging In Online and Offline Index Rebuild In Full Recovery
Model
Jinchun Chen: "Good article. Thank you!"
GO: "One of the best Wiki Articles ever! Thanks buddy!"
DRC: "-- This is a great article which provides in-depth information on internals of Online & Offline rebuild index and Transaction logging. -- The following statement need to be re-written for more clarity. “The less logging can be
attributed to the fact that no information about page allocation is logged information about de-allocation is logged please see below figure 13. Also if you compare amount of record returned in this case we had output containing just 64 rows while offline
index rebuild had ____ rows.” -- Overall, a great article, thoroughly enjoyed reading it."
NN: "Very interesting article, another great contribution by Shanky"
Ed Price: "Thorough descriptions and great solution! Good article!"
Uwe Ricken
SQL Server: Be aware of the correct data type for predicates in queries
Ed Price: "Incredibly well formatted! Great breakdown of sections!"
GO: "Whoo, this is a wonderful article!"
DRC: "-- This article explains the Query execution behaviour when the Query is not optimally written which could cause increased execution time. Great article. -- This topic is clearly explained and documented using a simple example and
sample output which is easy is understand. -- Simple, very well written and great article to read. "
NN: "Very good, easy to understand article and important information to know to all SQL Server developers"
System Center Technical Guru - May 2014
Mr X
Central Management of DSRM password on Domain Controllers using Orchestrator
Ed Price: "The images really carry you through this article. Great execution!"
GO: "Great article. I like your article Mr X! Thanks for your passion!"
Kevin Holman: "Nice to see real world examples of Orchestrator in action solving problems that all customers have. This was very simple, but provides an excellent solution."
W P Chomak
System Center Operations Manager 2012 R2 - Customizing E-Mail Notifications
AB: "Easy reading info that can help many"
Ed Price: "Short and sweet. An incredibly valuable topic and needed addition to the Wiki!"
GO: "Clever and well written. Thanks"
Christoffer S
System Center Configuration Manager 2012 R2 - Install applications in a task sequence based on AD-Groups
Ed Price: "Good mix of code, images, and information. Could use more in-depth descriptions. Great article!"
GO: "Clear and simple! Thank you!"
Transact-SQL Technical Guru - May 2014
Naomi N
T-SQL: Random Equal Distribution
Jinchun Chen: "Nice."
JS: "The crucial thing about such a procedure is to check the data before the randomization and afterwards. You might encounter situations where "John Smith" and "John Meyers" might have exchanged their First names
which is technically correct, but logically and obviously wrong. So make sure that there is one additional check afterwards that makes sure that eventual privicy concerns will not survive the random process. Normally this would not happen, but I have already
checked this is one of my older blog entries, where we exactly had that problem obfuscating data to make that operational and live data will not be recognized afterwards. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jenss/archive/2009/04/08/when-is-random-random-enough.aspx In
addition to this some attributes are sticky to each other like gender and First Name. You also have to make sure that your distribution might change statistically in relation to other attributes."
Richard Mueller: "Very instructive. Perhaps the See Also section should have more links."
Ed Price: "Great formatting and topic! Could benefit from more descriptions. Great article!"
GO: "Naomi, your article is nice. Simple to understand the 'problem' and execute the 'solution""
Manoj Pandey: "Nice article with a different way to resolve a given problem. I think this can also be done by using NTILE() function. I've added the code in comments section."
Rogge H
Extending SYS.Geometry to Utilize Temporal Data
GO: "Great article, I enjoyed reading it. Thank you"
Manoj Pandey: "I like the idea, but it took me some more time to understand the overall logic as I'm new to Geo datatypes, Thanks."
JS: "For me not using this sort of things regularly, I don't see the problem and the benefit. I have no doubt that this is a brilliant explanations how to cope with a problem, but for me this is missing yet the red line. More pictures
would be helpful describing the problem and outlining the results produced."
Richard Mueller: "Needs more explanation, and perhaps an example. There should be links to relevant references."
Ed Price: "Good job on the opening descriptions! Could benefit from breaking up and explaining the code more. Images and references would be helpful. Good article!"
Hasham Niaz
DataCleanUp() Function Implementation in MS SQL Server
Jinchun Chen: "Good."
JS: "-Does actually not work for Case senstive areas where I want to remoce certain Upper/lower case characters. This might be not interesting for some people, but is extremely important and relevant to other people. The limitation is
that I can´t pass multiple values to be removed from the string, right ? Could this be implemented as well as many people wash out their data from unused / unimportant control characters. "I have tested it on a table which has got more than 11 Million
rows and it executed fine returning the correct results. Since this is a scalar function you will notice decrease in performance." Once you want to maintain the old data and keep the new cleaned up one seperately, you could suggest something like persisting
the data in a computed column which could be indexed and then help improving the performance. This would not be the case for any adhoc queries though."
Richard Mueller: "Very clever and also very useful. There should be links to references, for example to explain the PATINDEX function."
Ed Price: "Great job on this article! Very clear and well executed! See JS's comments for some thoughts about what's possible. Great article!"
Manoj Pandey: "A good utility Function that I can use and tweak for my future needs, Thanks."
Jaliya Udagedara
Calling WCF Service from a Stored Procedure in Microsoft SQL Server 2012
GO: "Gold Winner. For sure!"
Ed Price: "Amazing article! The depth, images, and code formatting make this fantastic!"
NN: "Great article, thorough explanations, great interaction in the comments - very useful tutorial"
Søren Granfeldt: "Nice work."
João Sousa
ASP.NET MVC 5 - Bootstrap 3.0 in 3 Steps
GO: "Thanks for that great article"
Ed Price: "Great formatting! Good use of images!"
NN: "Nice introduction to Bootstrap in ASP.MVC project"
Søren Granfeldt: "Just a little more technical explanation would be nice"
Critical_stop
Using 64-bit shortcuts from a 32-bit application
NN: "Good and short article, right to the point"
Søren Granfeldt: "Mixing and matching 32/64 bit always seems to give people a hassle. This will help those having issues."
GO: "good one!"
Ed Price: "Good article. Short and sweet."
Wiki and Portals Technical Guru - May 2014
XAML guy
TechNet Guru Competition: Judge System Explanation
GO: "No one could do it beter than you Pete! Thanks!"
Richard Mueller: "Excellent explanation of the judging system. Perhaps could use a See Also section."
Ed Price: "Good quote from Shanky in the comments, "Awesome....Kudos to your for your beautiful work" -- Great job!"
NN: "Very good article. It may also benefit from See Also section"
Payman Biukaghazadeh
TechNet Wiki Persian Council
GO: "Go Persion GOOO!"
Richard Mueller: "The Persian Council is an excellent idea. The link to "How to Write an Article" should be in a See Also section, along with other articles."
NN: "Great article, missing a link to other portals and councils pages"
Ed Price: "Thank you to Payman and the Persian community for jumping in! The Wiki is warm!"
Durval Ramos
Wiki: Best Practices for building TechNet Wiki Portals
Ed Price: "Fantastic job from Durval on helping us standardize the portals!"
NN: "Good article, but unfortunately a bit hard to read and understand due to bad grammar. "
Richard Mueller: "Excellent and important topic. Grammar still needs work. I like the links and See Also."
Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - May 2014
Sara Silva
Authentication using Facebook, Google and Microsoft account in WP8.0 App (MVVM)
Ed Price: "Great article! Great code formatting and good use of code comments for descriptions of what your code's doing! Could be improved by breaking out the code with more descriptions in the article (in addition to
the code comments). Very in-depth article! "
Peter Laker: "An excellent article, pulling together all the bits you need to make this happen"
SubramanyamRaju.B
WindowsPhone Facebook Integration:How to post message/image to FaceBook Fan
Page(C#-XAML)
Ed Price: "Good topic! Code blocks would help with the formatting. Good job on this article!"
Peter Laker: "Love this, very useful to many I'm sure, thanks!"
Saad Mahmood
Creating a custom control in Expression Blend with Custom Properties (WindowsPhone
& Store)
Ed Price: "This has a good mix of descriptions and clarity! The images help a lot!"
Peter Laker: "A nice introduction to our beloved Blend. Great work!"
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - May 2014
Magnus (MM8)
WPF/MVVM: Merging Cells In a ListView
KJ: "Ah the collectionViewSource -- never used it myself but this looks like a good reference article if I ever needed to..."
GO: "Thank you!"
Ed Price: "Great formatting and good descriptions. Short and sweet! Another fantastic entry from Magnus!"
Peter Laker: "Thank you again Magnus"
Windows Server Technical Guru - May 2014
Mr X
How to implement User
Activity Recording for AD-Integrated Critical Servers by combining the use of Group Policy, Powershell and Orchestrator
Philippe Levesque: "Really good information and detailed step."
JH: "brilliant, love how it combines different technologies to achieve a solution, clearly written and well illustrated."
JM: "Another excellent article, thanks again for your many great contributions"
Richard Mueller: "Very creative solution. Great to have such detailed steps and images."
GO: "I like the conclusion. Thanks"
Mr X
How Domain Controllers are located in Windows
GO: "Super article Mr X! Merci!"
JM: "Yet again, excellent article."
Richard Mueller: "Good documentation. An explanation of how the priorities and weights are determined would help. A See Also section would also help."
Philippe Levesque: "Good "In deep" information. Good to know to help diagnose computer problem in AD's site."
JH: "another good article, great diagrams. Some repetition but it does help clarify a complex issue. "
Mahdi Tehrani
Detailed Concepts:Secure Channel Explained
JH: "great article. This fills an important gap in this content space. Editing is a little rough, but diagrams and explanations are clear."
JM: "This is a very good article, however you need to provide more detail in the section on how to fix a broken Channel."
Richard Mueller: "Excellent topic. Grammar needs work. Good images. Could use a See Also section."
Philippe Levesque: "Really good explanation of the secure's channel, I like the debugging step included ! "
GO: "Thanks for this, not everybody know about secure channel."
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Congrats to Shanky and Uwe!
SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - May 2014
Shanky
Curious Case Of Logging In Online and Offline Index Rebuild In Full Recovery
Model
Jinchun Chen: "Good article. Thank you!"
GO: "One of the best Wiki Articles ever! Thanks buddy!"
DRC: "-- This is a great article which provides in-depth information on internals of Online & Offline rebuild index and Transaction logging. -- The following statement need to be re-written for more clarity. “The less logging can be attributed
to the fact that no information about page allocation is logged information about de-allocation is logged please see below figure 13. Also if you compare amount of record returned in this case we had output containing just 64 rows while offline index rebuild
had ____ rows.” -- Overall, a great article, thoroughly enjoyed reading it."
NN: "Very interesting article, another great contribution by Shanky"
Ed Price: "Thorough descriptions and great solution! Good article!"
Uwe Ricken
SQL Server: Be aware of the correct data type for predicates in queries
Ed Price: "Incredibly well formatted! Great breakdown of sections!"
GO: "Whoo, this is a wonderful article!"
DRC: "-- This article explains the Query execution behaviour when the Query is not optimally written which could cause increased execution time. Great article. -- This topic is clearly explained and documented using a simple example and sample
output which is easy is understand. -- Simple, very well written and great article to read. "
NN: "Very good, easy to understand article and important information to know to all SQL Server developers"
Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:
SQL Server installation error Could Not Find Database Engine Startup Handle by
Shanky
Ed Price: "Wow, what an amazing article! Fantastic code formatting, great descriptions, and the images help you when you need it!"
NN: "I read this article with great interest. The funny thing is that at the same time I was reading someone was having this exact problem in UniversalThread.com forum, so I was able to refer him to this article. UPDATE. Looks like he is still
having problems"
GO: "Thank you so much!"
DRC: " -- This article -- Explains on modifying/deleting the registry keys after backup -- But it doesn't provide the level/how to back up the registry. -- We also need to warn the users that if we modify/delete the wrong registry key it might
lead to crash of SQL or even WINDOWS -- In case there are multiple instances on the same machine following this article would cause all the SQL instance to crash. -- So it would be better to contact the support team or before trying out the action steps. "
5 Top Features Your Company Can Use in SQL Server 2014 Standard Edition by Richard
Douglas
NN: "Very well written and quite interesting. Since it's originated from the blog, it has a personal touch which is more appropriate for a blog "
DRC: " -- Expand the word GA (General Availability) in the below sentence and correct the spelling mistake "it was written before the GA of SQL Server 2014" "SSD technology and a chunk of this session was on BPE" "who doesn't’t like playing
with new cool stuff!" "which doesn't’t sound as impressive" "business from the likes of Oracle et al." -- This is a good article and provides all the required information and links to Microsoft website for more details. "
Ed Price: "Fantastic topic, but it should be made more "Wiki like" and less personalized. Anybody in the community can help us do that! "
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