Sorting a String as a Number with T-SQL and SSIS
I was working on a Cube in Analysis Services for a client recently and needed to sort on a field...
2012-01-23
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How to hide Calculated Members in MDX SSAS
With some calculated members in MDX it only makes sense to see the calculation if a certain Hierarchy is used....
2011-10-28
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Setting up SSIS Auditing Part 2
Auditing in SSIS can be a real headache. In this two part series blog I am going to try to...
2011-10-20
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Setting up SSIS Auditing Part 1
Auditing in SSIS can be a real headache. In this two part series blog I am going to try to...
2011-10-16
1,701 reads
Using Configuration Tables in SSIS 2008/2005
SSIS packages are great ETL tools and can do just about anything you need in terms of ETL. Most organizations...
2011-10-03
1,255 reads
Creating your first Data Mining Structure and Model
Data mining is a great way to help your company make decisions and predict future values. The Data Mining Algorithms...
2011-09-30
8,682 reads
Getting Previous Row in SSIS Data Flow
There is no native function built in to SSIS to get the previous row in the data flow. But with...
2011-09-29
1,735 reads
SSIS For Each Column in a Data flow
Previously I wrote a blog on how to do a for each loop to look through each col in an...
2011-09-29
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SSIS Merge with Duplicate Rows
The Merge component in SSIS will take two sorted sources and union them while maintaining the original sort order. The...
2011-09-28
1,291 reads
SSIS Child Errors in Parent Package
If you have a parent package that is looping through a set of files and calling child packages and want...
2011-09-27
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Blogs
Can I Change a Primary Key Value? #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I heard someone say recently that you can’t change a primary key value in...
SQL Server Index Primer
By Kevin3NF
Indexes 101: What, Why, and When? “What Is an Index?” I get this question...
Secure Azure SQL Server Backups Using Managed Identities
By Arun Sirpal
I do believe most people know about the ability to backup your SQL server...
Forums
Update particular record in a table
I need to update greatherthan8 (category) record to Missing (status) if the same member...
Internationalisation
Quick one I hope in case I'm heading off in entirely the wrong direction!...
Size of DB on physical disk doesn't match Disk Usage by Table report
Hi everyone I am looking at the size of my db on disk (ie...
Question of the Day
Getting the TEXTSIZE
How can I check what value I used for TEXTSIZE? I ran this code:
SET TEXTSIZE 8096But then deleted the code and couldn't remember. Is there a way to check this? See possible answers