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I recently was doing some development on my local machine and needed to pull data from a linked server. I set up the linked server and everything was working great. Executing queries to pull the data to my machine was...
When running packages that contain executable and batch files you may sometimes come across an issue where you need to confirm that you want to open the file. This can cause an issue if you run the package unattended. Obviously, this...
Occasionally there may be the need to remove the date from the end of a string. This can be accomplished by using PATINDEX along with SUBSTRING. We will use PATINDEX to find where the date begins and then SUBSTRING to remove the...
As you can see we have two tables, with the same values. Joining on these tables is no problem at all. Simple, right? Well, take a look at what happens when we try to join on the column containing the NULL values....
There are a number of ways that you can calculate dates using T-SQL. A common practice is to find the first day of the week which can be accomplished easily by using the following function. SELECT DATEADD(wk, DATEDIFF(wk,0,GETDATE()), 0) However,...
More often than not an execute SQL task in SSIS will do the trick. If not, then the data flow will accomplish whatever objective is set out. Occasionally those can become cumbersome in a package to accomplish something simple. In...
by Bradley Schacht · Published January 17, 2010 · Last modified October 13, 2015
This past week I ran into an issue where I needed to use a .dbf destination in my SSIS package. All was going well; I set up the destination and pressed the preview button to make sure everything was great,...
by Bradley Schacht · Published December 21, 2009 · Last modified October 13, 2015
The first step in setting up a report server is getting Reporting Services installed. There are a few differences between the process for 2005 and 2008. On the installation side, if you do not have the IIS setting configured before...
by Bradley Schacht · Published December 18, 2009 · Last modified October 13, 2015
After my first day of SSIS training my boss walked into the office and said to me, “how was the first day of class”. To which I responded, “great!” Then asked me, “so what is the difference between the control...
by Bradley Schacht · Published December 16, 2009 · Last modified October 13, 2015
If your like me, then you may have a little OCD and need everything to be completely organized in your environment. BIDS has been annoying me in this respect lately. I am working on creating a data warehouse and will...
