Archive for month: June, 2011

SSRS SSL Certificate Nightmare

28 Jun
June 28, 2011

I write this post after a hellish experience that lasted a couple of hours trying to sort out the SSL certificate for SSRS.
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SQL Server Graphical Execution Plan Icons Walkthrough Part 1 – Lookup Operations

26 Jun
June 26, 2011

SQL Server’s Graphical Execution Plan contains a wealth of information that could be used to diagnose performance and maintenance (such as out of date statistics) issues.

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Klout’s Social-Media Influence API

26 Jun
June 26, 2011

Klout has developed a really cool API that gauges a user’s “Social Influence” by aggregating the user’s activities and interactions within the social realm, The API is currently free access (up to a certain limit of usage), and still in Beta stage.

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List of all SQL Server DMVs & System Objects

26 Jun
June 26, 2011

As you probably already know, SQL Server has many DMVs (Dynamic Management Views) and System Objects that helps DBAs, these include performance counters, index statistics, resource locking information, user object IDs and many more.

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Query SSRS Report Schedules

26 Jun
June 26, 2011

A few months back I needed to grab SSRS schedule information through T-SQL, essentially in a query so I can publish the data through an EXCEL sheet (with a data connection to the database).

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