Another day, another blog post all about SSIS in my continuing journey through 31 Days of SSIS. A list of the other posts in this series can be found in the introductory post. If you haven’t had a chance to read through that, I would recommend taking a look at it after reading this post. … Continue reading 31 Days of SSIS – One Package, Unlimited Databases (24/31)
It’s Sunday afternoon and a good time to be putting up post twenty-three for the 31 Days of SSIS blog series. A list of the other posts in this series can be found in the introductory post. If you haven’t had a chance to read through that, I would recommend taking a look at it … Continue reading 31 Days of SSIS – Generating Row Numbers (23/31)
Today, we continue on with the 31 Days of SSIS blog series. Yesterday’s post was on the use of expressions with Precedence Constraints and how to control the Control Flow. Today, we’ll venture a little further in with the use of expressions, and a head into the Data Flow and how you can use expressions … Continue reading 31 Days of SSIS – Data Flow Expressions (22/31)
Remember, what I said last Friday? I’m going do it, again. Which means, I’m taking the day off. There will still be a 31 Days of SSIS post, you’re reading it right now. This post was being written by Chris Fish (LinkedIn). He’s another of my co-workers at Digineer and and is on the team … Continue reading 31 Days of SSIS – Controlling Your Flow In The Control Flow (21/31)
Time to shift off of configurations and environments and talk more about SSIS packages and best practices. If you haven’t been following this series and are just joining in, we are at day 20 of the 31 Days of SSIS. Now that is out of the way, let’s move on. Today, we are going to … Continue reading 31 Days of SSIS – No More Procedures (20/31)
The last two posts in the 31 Days of SSIS talked about the use of environmental variables and SQL Server configurations. Between those two types of configurations, you can cover most situations where you need to configure an SSIS package. There is one more type of SSIS package configuration that I’d like to make sure … Continue reading 31 Days of SSIS – DTSConfig Configuration (19/31)
It’s week two of voting for the upcoming SQLRally. This week, we are voting for the Database & Application Development sessions for the conference. You might think… “hey, should I even vote? I’m not sure I can attend.” I say, YES! The SQLRally is a community event where the community is choosing which sessions will … Continue reading Time To Get Your #SQLRally Vote On!
The last post in the 31 Days of SSIS talked about the use of environmental variables. As I mentioned in that post, environmental variables are great for values that are specific to individual environments One problem with environmental variables that I mentioned is often the operating system needs to be rebooted after adding new environmental … Continue reading 31 Days of SSIS – SQL Server Configuration (18/31)
It’s time to go back to discussing the environment when it comes to SSIS packages. For the last few posts of the 31 Days of SSIS series I’ve talked about developing packages. As important as developing packages is, we must be prepared to develop them in a way that they can be securely deployed. As … Continue reading 31 Days of SSIS – Environmental Variable(17/31)
Follow the rest of this series at the XQuery for the Non-Expert – X-Query Resources introduction post. In a previous post, I discussed the exist() method as part of the XQuery for the Non-Expert blog series. When working with the exist() method you may not always want to hardcode in the attribute values that you … Continue reading XQuery for the Non-Expert – @Variable Use
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