Todd Robinson

SQL Server 2012 Beta Exams (7 of 7)

Todd Robinson — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 04:42:56 +0000

This is it. The last melon… No wait, that was Ice Age. The last beta exam! This morning will be 71-465: Designing Database Solutions for Microsoft SQL Server 2012. Out of all the exams this is the one that I’m probably the most skilled on, but will probably do the worst because I’ll be overconfident. Bonne Chance!

SQL Server 2012 Beta Exams (6 of 7)

Todd Robinson — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 23:15:19 +0000

Almost done! Today I faced 71-464: Developing Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Databases.

SQL Server 2012 Beta Exams (5 of 7)

Todd Robinson — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 13:38:51 +0000

Today marks the 5th beta exam for SQL Server 2012 that I will take. On deck for today is 71-462: Administering Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Databases.

SQL Server 2012 Beta Exams (4 of 7)

Todd Robinson — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 12:30:11 +0000

Today I’ll be sitting in the ~~electric~~ chair for exam 71-463: Implementing a Data Warehouse with Microsoft SQL Server 2012. Hopefully I won’t have a temperamental computer which decides to have a mind of its own today and have to shuffle off to another machine. Wish me luck!

SQL Server 2012 Beta Exams (3 of 7)

Todd Robinson — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 15:19:46 +0000

The day after April Fools I find myself at the testing center again to take my third of 7 SQL Server 2012 beta exams. Today’s entree is 71-461: Querying Microsoft SQL Server 2012.

PASS Summit 2011 – Day 5

Todd Robinson — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 16:06:32 +0000

Agenda today:
DeWitt keynote
Query Tuning Mastery: Zen and the Art of Workspace Memory (AD-500-S)
Scaling SQL Server (DBA-302-HD)
Enterprise SQL I/O Optimization Best Practices (DBA-413-A)
SQL Server Memory Management (DBA-310)

PASS Summit 2011 – Day 4

Todd Robinson — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 22:20:41 +0000

Todays’ Agenda

Microsoft SQL “Denali” AlwaysOn: Active Secondaries (DBA-331-M)
100% Availability Without 100% Uptime (DBA-307)
What’s New in Microsoft StreamInsight? (BIA-318-M)
Discovering the Plan Cache (DBA-317)

PASS Summit 2011 – Day 3

Todd Robinson — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 20:45:20 +0000

Sessions I will be attending today will be “SQL Server Storage Engine under the hood: How SQL Server performs I/O” (DBA-407) by Thomas Grohser and the “The Ultimate Session on Indexes” (AD-302-HD) by Victor Isakov.

PASS Summit 2011 – Day 1

Todd Robinson — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 18:32:41 +0000

Today there are pre-cons going on at the conference center and people coming in an registering for the conference which starts in earnest for most people on Wednesday. I managed to meet a few-first timers on my flight into Seattle yesterday and I managed to bring them over to the Sheraton via taxi unharmed. I let them know all the different routes they could take to the hotel, including the light rail, but we chose to do the taxi route simply because I could see that after that long flight, they just wanted to get in and settled. I made sure to let them know about Guidebook, so they could have an updated session schedule with them, as well as to make sure to have their twitter client open with the #SQLPASS hashtag to capture all of the goings on happening all around them. I will be heading out shortly to meet up with some folks I’ve known for quite some time, as well as hopefully some more first-timers. More updates to come…

SSRS has me stumped…

Todd Robinson — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 16:28:03 +0000

I’m trying to build a simple (at least I thought it was) report which shows a matrix. Let’s just say for example I have a stored procedure which returns the number of bikes manufactured by plant, by color for each month between two dates I specify. Since we are a pretty low volume bike builder, we only make them in Red, Blue, and Black. Also, there are times where we only make one or two of the colors in a month. Finally, there are some months we take off and do absolutely nothing at all.

Here is the result of my stored procedure call when I want 3 months of data, from Jan 2011 to Mar 2011.

2/1/2011	Contoso	Red	12
2/1/2011	Fabrikam	Red	11
3/1/2011	Contoso	Blue	8
3/1/2011	Fabrikam	Red	17

And this is what the matrix report shows….

		Month
Company	Color	Feb 2011	Mar 2011
Contoso	Blue	0	8
	Red	12	0
Fabrikam	Red	11	17

However, this is not what I want. I want to be able to display all colors on the rows, and all dates on the columns, like this

		Month
Company	Color	Jan 2011	Feb 2011	Mar 2011
Contoso	Blue	0	0	8
	Red	0	12	0
	Black	0	0	0
Fabrikam	Blue	0	0	0
	Red	0	11	17
	Black	0	0	0

Assuming that I cannot change the results of the stored procedure, but I could get all the colors and all the months, can I get it to work?