Another BI & Programming Blog - Jason Yousef

Alright..I have a column called "Comments" and need to hide that column if it's NULL or empty or have spaces! Solution: Just set the visibility expression to: =IIF(Fields!Comments.Value = "", IIF(Fields!Comments.Value is nothing, IIF(Len(Trim(Fields!Comments.Value)) = 0,True, False), False), False)

Jen McCown ( Twitter | Blog  ) is calling all the unpublished SQL Server folk and non MVPs! She has this brilliant idea about a community-written book of tribal SQL Server knowledge. http://www.midnightdba.com/Jen/2011/11/sql-tribal-knowledge/ Anyway I've managed to contact her and she was generous to accpet my 3 abstracts after she closed the submition timeline. I'm So excited that I could write for the SQL community and share the knowledge,These are actually what came to my mind back then, but really regret not sending anything about SQL 2012 as it would be more suitable. Title: SSIS notifications, using “SEND MAIL TASK”. Category: Advanced SSIS Level: 300 Goal: Learn about the various ways and the capabilities of SSIS notifications. Abstract: Examining the common and the possible ways to send e-mail notifications for various scenarios, on error, on success using the built in “Send Mail Task” and learning abut it’s limitations, the way...

A recent question popped up and the discussion heated up regarding updating a COMMENTS (TXT) field in a table using SSRS. http://www.experts-exchange.com/Microsoft/Development/MS-SQL-Server/MS-SQL_Reporting/Q_27475269.html?cid=1572#a37227028 Of course it’s not the best way to use SSRS as it’s a presentation layer and so limited in doing that using Parameters and sub-Reports which will fire a code or a stored procedure to update or delete a record…but IT COULD BE DONE!! And that’s what I was bargaining about… 1-I started by creating a new project in VS 2008, “Report Server Project” type.    2-I’m using SQL 2008 R2 as my testing platform…I’ve created a test DB called “Admin” CREATE DATABASE [Admin] 3-I created a test table called “Employees”  contains only 3 columns. Create TABLE Employees     (     ID int IDENTITY (1,1),     Name varchar(50),     Comments varchar(MAX)     ) ...