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SSRS : Changing how a date and time is displayed to UK
(dd/mm/yyyy) format

SSRS may not display dates and times in the format you want. Fortunately if you want to set an explicit format (such as dd/mm/yyyy) for a field on a report then it’s straightforward to do this, without using any code or expressions. In this tip I’ll show how to set this up for an example report.

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Featured Script

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Checking for users with sysadmin privileges

One thing I like to do occasionally, or when "inheriting" a new SQL server is to check which users have sysadmin privileges. As these users have access to perform any activity in SQL Server it’s important to keep the number of these users to a minimum especially on production systems.

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Quick Quiz : DATALENGTH results

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What is the result of the following SQL query ?
DECLARE @MyStr NVARCHAR (100)
SET @MyStr = 'ABC'
SELECT DATALENGTH(@MyStr)
Choose one : a) 3    b) 6    c) 50    d) 100

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