Eliminating Empty Output Files in SSIS
So you’ve got some packages that regularly extract data to one or more text files, but you know that from...
2009-09-30
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Tim Mitchell
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Space Sensitivity in SSIS Lookups
It's been well-documented through myriad blogs and forum posts about the case sensitivity of the comparisons in the SSIS lookup...
2009-09-29
2,737 reads
[Off Topic] Workstation Upgrade
It had been about 5 years since I’d bought a new desktop machine for my home, and with my oldest...
2009-09-26
548 reads
More Free Training Resources
A recent blog by Jack Corbett (No Training Budget Still No Excuse, followed up by SSC’s Steve Jones here) hit...
2009-09-25
1,907 reads
Creating Dynamic Outputs in SSIS
In this article, we'll see how you can use the Foreach loop and the Expression Language to create multiple, dynamic outputs through object reuse.
2009-09-24
13,179 reads
It's The Job
Today we have a guest editorial from Tim Mitchell that looks at the stereotypical geek. Have you worked with one? Is it harder to manage technical people? Or is it the job? Read Tim's thoughts and let us know if you agree.
2009-09-24
154 reads
Skipping Items in a Foreach Loop
Recently, my friend Jack Corbett asked a question on Twitter:
In a nutshell, the SSIS foreach loop will enumerate a given...
2009-09-23
3,475 reads
More Free Training Resources
A recent blog by Jack Corbett (No Training Budget Still No Excuse, followed up by SSC’s Steve Jones here) hit...
2009-09-21
1,246 reads
Getting Into the Biz, Part 3
In a couple of previous posts (Part One and Part Two), I shared some thoughts about starting a career path...
2009-09-21
1,239 reads
The Netbook: Upgrade to Windows 7
I’m more than 2 months into the netbook experience, and I’m happy to report that it’s still a good investment. ...
2009-09-19
598 reads
Blogs
AI: Blog a Day – Day 5: Notebooks, Hugging face models and Fine Tuning
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 4 where we learned Encoder, Decoder, and Attention Mechanism, today we...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 4: Transformers – Encoder, Decoder, and Attention
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 3 where we covered LLM models open/closed and their parameters, Today...
Flyway Tips: Multiple Projects
By Steve Jones
One of the nice things about Flyway Desktop is that it helps you manage...
Forums
Can an Azure App Service Managed Identity be used for SQL Login?
I'm fairly certain I know the answer to this from digging into it yesterday,...
Azure Synapse database refresh
Hi Team, I am trying to refresh the Azure Synapse Dedicated pool from production...
how to write this query?
hi everyone I am not sure how to write the query that will produce...
Question of the Day
Fun with JSON I
I have some data in a table:
CREATE TABLE #test_data
(
id INT PRIMARY KEY,
name VARCHAR(100),
birth_date DATE
);
-- Step 2: Insert rows
INSERT INTO #test_data
VALUES
(1, 'Olivia', '2025-01-05'),
(2, 'Emma', '2025-03-02'),
(3, 'Liam', '2025-11-15'),
(4, 'Noah', '2025-12-22');
If I run this query, how many rows are returned?
SELECT *
FROM OPENJSON(
(
SELECT t.* FROM #test_data AS t FOR JSON PATH
)
) t; See possible answers