Troubleshooting

The other day, I was asked to look into why a Dell computer showed a warranty expiry date in 2026. Why was that unusual? Normally, a computer warranty is no…

When I first encountered this issue, some time ago, I checked all of my queries in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) and guess what? As I suspected, the queries were…

With the end of 2019 in sight, I thought it would be useful to look back and see what posts were the most popular this year. After reviewing the posts,…

While working on an Enhansoft Reporting project in Visual Studio 2017, I received an error stating that this project was incompatible. What was confusing to me was that I had…

What happened to my column headers in SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) 2016?! This was the question I kept asking myself over and over again. It took some time, but…

As I write this blog post, I am sitting in my hotel room after a long day of Midwest Management Summit at the Mall of America (MMSMOA) sessions. Here I…

If you’re reading this blog post than you probably don’t need me to tell you how handy it is to have Miracast. I love being able to watch movies from…

In the screenshot below, you can see that there is clearly an issue with the Tools gauge in my SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) dashboard. The purple arrow is pointing…

A long time ago I started working on two projects using SQL Server Business Intelligence Development Studio 2005 (BIDS). I wanted to keep working on these projects, so I upgraded…

Not long ago, I was dealing with a performance problem involving a very simple SQL Server query. To give you an idea about what I mean, this query took over…