SQL Server Tips & Tricks - Ike Ellis

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http://extras.sqlservercentral.com/prettifier/prettifier.aspx

Red Gate PlugIn for SQL Server Management Studio

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• Result set can be used in SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE

• Advantages of common table expressions:

– Queries with derived tables become more readable

– Provide traversal of recursive hierarchies

WITH TopSales (SalesPersonID, NumSales) AS

( SELECT SalesPersonID, Count(*)

FROM Sales.SalesOrderHeader GROUP BY SalesPersonId )

SELECT * FROM TopSales

WHERE SalesPersonID IS NOT NULL

ORDER BY NumSales DESC

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select c.Name, e.InstanceName, e.UserName, e.Parameters, e.TimeStart, e.TimeEnd, e.TimeDataRetrieval, e.TimeProcessing, e.TimeRenderingfrom executionlog ejoin catalog con e.reportid = c.ItemID

Send a Link, or a file on a shared folder that you can audit. Find someway to audit who opened the link or the file in the folder. Try to avoid sending the PDF without a way to audit it.

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