Have you ever opened your report server only to find a blank section of nothing-ness where your reports should be? The solution to your problem is more than likely in the permissions. The easiest fix for this situation is to right click on IE and select Run As Administrator. There are, however, ways around having to run IE as an administrator each time you want to view reports. If disabling UAC is not an option you can try to do the following: 1. Run Internet Explorer as Administrator (Right Cli...
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Designing a database can be a daunting task, especially on a large scale. There are several ways inside of SQL Server Management Studio to do design. You could create your database and right click on the ‘Tables’ node and enter all the information there. Column names are listed out followed by their data types with all the properties being set below. This is a quick and easy way to edit your tables as well as design them. The issue occurs when you start to set table relationships. A lot of peopl...
Have you ever created a table thinking everything looked amazing and was designed perfect only to come back and need to add to it? Maybe you need to change a data type, add a column, delete a column or move a column. It's an easy fix, right. Just right click on the table, go to Design mode and make your changes. Well, this would be a pretty useless story if all that worked flawlessly. As you close the table to save all your great, wonderful, glorious changes you are greeted not with a screen tha...
64-bit or 32-bit, Windows Vista or Windows XP? These are just a couple of the questions asked by today's product testers. With the computing world we are in today, you cannot expect an initial build of a product to work in every environment. In order to make sure your products operate as planned in the real world you must test! Product testing is a key part of the development process. The right setup and software environment can save time and money during this critical step. We opted to go with ...