David Russell

  • Interests: Arduino, Raspberry Pi and other micro-controllers. Building a Speeduino ECU in my Toyota Supra Turbo.

SQLServerCentral Article

An Elegant ETL Solution: Except for Lost Data

An early adopter of SQL Server 2005 found some issues with Integration Services. And he shows how it was debugged and the issue solved. This is a great look at some of the helpful parts of Intration Services in solving problems as well as a few places it falls short.

You rated this post out of 5. Change rating

2005-12-02

5,831 reads

SQLServerCentral Article

TechNote: Installing SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio 2005

If you are working with SQL Server 2005, you really need Visual Studio 2005 as well. And since they are both in Beta, there are some interesting issues when installing both of these pre-products. New author David Russell brings us some technical notes he made while installing both of these many times in a corporate environment.

4 (1)

You rated this post out of 5. Change rating

2005-09-14

52,669 reads

Blogs

The Cost of Not Having a DBA

By

Does skipping a DBA save money? Wait until your system grinds to a halt,...

Who are you? Building an identity map.

By

I admit that until I read the article, Who are you as a Leader?,...

Call a Fabric REST API from Azure Data Factory

By

Suppose you want to call a certain Microsoft Fabric REST API endpoint from Azure...

Read the latest Blogs

Forums

How to update using data from three tables?

By mjdemaris

I am in the process of migrating from MySQL to SQL Server. I have...

Select Returning Blank Rows

By JP789

I have the following select statement --#1 Select supplier, s.refnum, desc from supplier as...

How to update a history table with changes.

By bswhipp

Good morning to all.  I am a novice when it comes to SQL so...

Visit the forum

Question of the Day

Replacing a NULL II

What is returned from this code in SQL Server 2022?

DECLARE
  @value INT = NULL
, @value2 VARCHAR(20) = NULL;
SELECT COALESCE (@value, @value2, 100.5) AS Result;
GO

See possible answers