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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...
I recently created a maintenance plan for our server to backup all the databases on a daily basis. In the cleanup step I set it to delete backups older than 7 day. I let the plan run for a week...
You may need to do an update on joined tables to get a more conditional update. For instance, I have a Student table as well as an AcademicStatus table. The Student table contains all the students (profound, I know) and...
Have you ever created a table thinking everything looked amazing and was designed perfect only to come back and need to add to it? Maybe you need to change a data type, add a column, delete a column or move...
Designing a database can be a daunting task, especially on a large scale. There are several ways inside of SQL Server Management Studio to do design. You could create your database and right click on the ‘Tables’ node and enter...
