Ok, so after some initial struggling of setting up whole environment for SSRS to work smoothly and after getting some sample data I am finally ready to begin my epic journey to SSRS (it is epic for me because most of the stuff that I am going to learn will be myself and I will
Author: Gaurang
First thing I would like to write is a question .... Why the hack people write their bio in 3rd person ?
I am Gaurang. I work as DBA / DEV for local company in CT. When I am not working, I am either reading other blogs n news OR "researching" / "experimenting" about things that I can do at home / at work OR tinkering with some new hardware/software OR playing games on my desktop.
If you ever wanted to contact me, I can be reached by meATgaurangpatel.net
Disable Shutdown Event Tracker
I’ve been using Windows Servers provided by MSFT for free from past few years (not by downloading from Torrent sites by via DreamSpark program) ranging from 2003r2 to the latest one 2008r2. And almost all of them have one feature that really annoys me and that is “Shutdown Event Tracker”. I simply don’t understand that
Deploying AdventureWorks Analysis Database ..
If you are working with SQL Server then you might already have used this great cycle selling company’s database (AdventureWorks) at least once. Microsoft has created this cycle selling company database for SQL Server 2005 and later versions, before this sample we had “NorthWind” database. Anyways, if you try to install these sample databases you
Intellisense in SQL Server 2008 r2 management studio
This quick post is about my recent experience with SSMS for SQL Server 2008 r2. Usually I use some other 3rd party tool for SQL Server Development because it is sort of more easier to use when we are developing (but that tool is not good at all when it comes to managing SQL Server).
Can’t access local SQL Server Reporting Server’s Report manger
Yes, though it sounds really strange for local instance of SQL Server Reporting Service (AKA SSRS) it is very real issue, specially if you are using Windows Vista (however I don’t understand why would someone use it )or 7. It is mainly because of new feature called User Access Control (UAC) which prevents system level
Blinking Light Animation in Silverlight using Expression Blend
Before even anyone of you look at my animation, let me clarify again that I DON’T HAVE DESIGNER’S EYE … which basically means if you are looking for some really cool UI then you are at wrong place. With that info. noted I also would like to let you know that though I am not
X Files are real !!!
Well, not real as in some FBI agents trying to solve cases with unexplained phenomenal activity (or may be there are some ! who knows) …. well, for me X file case is like occurrence of some unexplained event and there is no clear explanation of what actually happened. That is exactly what happened yesterday