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
Sixteen days in and we are past the half way point for the 31 Days of SSIS blog series. In a few of the previous post I made reference to the use of the expression language within SSIS. Today I'm going to cover ten things that you should probably know about them. The SSIS expression … Continue reading 31 Days of SSIS – 10 Things About Expressions (16/31)
Saturday morning and you can watch your favorite cartoon, or jump into some fun with SSIS. Today is the fifteenth day of the 31 Days of SSIS. This month I'm writing blog posts that cover some of the things I’ve learned and development techniques that I’ve used with SSIS. One of my favorite transformations to … Continue reading 31 Days of SSIS – Every Which Way Outputs (15/31)
It’s day fourteen of the 31 Days of SSIS blog series. It’s also Friday, so I’m taking the day off. That doesn’t mean that there won’t be a post today. What it means is that I have asked Aaron Drinkwine (LinkedIn), one of my co-workers at Digineer, to write a post for today. This post … Continue reading 31 Days of SSIS – Instant Excel Spreadsheet (14/31)
Day thirteen and we are trucking along with the 31 Days of SSIS blog series. The last couple posts discussed methods that could be used to unpivot (1, 2) data to populate data into an entity-attribute-value (EAV) architecture. Package Requirements Sometimes, though, it isn’t necessary to populate customer data that doesn’t fit into the portion … Continue reading 31 Days of SSIS – Create XML Document (13/31)
This is the twelfth post in the 31 Days of SSIS blog series. This post is going to go through solution that I sometimes use as an alternative to the Unpivot transformation. Probably not too surprising, this solution is going to take advantage of raw files. The Unpivot transformation is a relatively easy transformation to … Continue reading 31 Days of SSIS – UnPivot Alternative (12/31)
The last post discussed the Pivot transformation – that leads us to this post which will be on the Unpivot Transformation. Part of the reason I had been trying to fit the the Pivot transformation into the issue I was having was also because I knew how to use the Unpivot transformation and thought I … Continue reading 31 Days of SSIS – UnPivot Transformation (11/31)
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