The Seferlis Blog

SSRS Calculating and Converting Time with Expression

Recently I came across a challenging issue with calculating a time span within a group inside an SSRS Report. I am working on an issue where I need to be able to calculate labor pace operations per...

Pragmatic Works SSRS Master Class Review

December 5, 2014 Review,SQL Server,SSRS,Training

A little while back, the boys from Pragmatic Works (www.pragmaticworks.com) came up to Boston for their “Master” level training series on SSRS. I attended the class, and wanted to share my...

Take 1: My first presentation at Sql saturday

October 5, 2014 Review,SQL Server,SSRS,Strategy

I just recently presented at my first SQL Saturday event, SQL Saturday#334 – The Boston BI Session, and wanted to share my experience for future first-timers in the hopes it might help them with...

Unable to deploy package to ssis 2014 Catalog

July 28, 2014 SQL Server,SSIS

Recently ran into trouble because our Active Directory environment was upgraded to 2012, and I could no longer deploy packages to our SQL Server 2014 SSIS Catalog due to the following error: A .NET...

Odd authentication behavior

July 25, 2014 SQL Server,SSMS SQL Server Authentication Issues

Just recently I came across some odd behavior when trying to connect to my SQL 2012 server via and SSIS package and ultimately SSMS from an external connection. I’ll cut to the chase and tell you...

SSRS 2008R2 Parameterized Reports stop working

January 26, 2012 SQL Server,SSRS SSRS

SSRS 2008R2 Parameterized Reports suddenly stop working After a recent round of Windows Updates, one of my SQL Server Reporting Server 2008 R2 users complained that reports were not working...