This is similar to "Oracle Nasty Dates Finder for .NET folks!" but this time it is for numbers instead of dates! I ran into this issue as I was moving data from Oracle to SQL Server. So, you are working with Oracle using ODP.NET and you have a simple, straight-forward SELECT * FROM TABLE; Alternatively, … Continue reading Oracle ODP.NET: Resolve “Arithmetic operation resulted in an overflow” or “Specified cast is not valid”
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PowerShell – Working With SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) – Get/Set Data Sources & Deploy Reports
I am working on a DevOps deployment tool to automate all DB infrastructure related deployments (in PowerShell). It has a SSRS side to it besides other components. i.e., SSRS reports have to be deployed. The functions at a high level In this post, I want to publish a few functions that I created around SSRS. They … Continue reading PowerShell – Working With SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) – Get/Set Data Sources & Deploy Reports
Hard-coding Values In SQL Code – Please Don’t
What is hard-coding? Wikipedia defines it as below Hard coding (also, hard-coding or hardcoding) refers to the software development practice of embedding what may, perhaps only in retrospect, be regarded as input or configuration data directly into the source code of a program or other executable object, or fixed formatting of the data, instead of … Continue reading Hard-coding Values In SQL Code – Please Don’t