SQL Server Data Type Conversion Options in SSIS
SQL Server Data type conversion is one of the most common tasks in any ETL process. There are several ways of data conversion in SSIS. We have Special “Data Conversion” transformation …
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SQL Azure Creating your First Database
In my previous post Introduction: SQL Azure; we had a brief introduction of SQL Azure and how this is different from SQL Server. This blog post will illustrate “How to create …
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SQL Azure Introduction SQL Azure is part of Microsoft Azure Service Platform which provides data storage/manipulations capabilities to the platform. SQL Azure uses a special version of SQL Server as backend. …
Read MoreImport Multiple Files in SSIS Using Multi Flat File
In my previous post, I have discussed about various options available in SSIS to load multiple flat files. One of the mentioned options is using “MultiFlatFile”. A multi flat file connection …
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Many times we require to import multiple files in SSIS. There are various ways to achieve this and the best option depends upon on case to case. The available options are: …
Read MoreSQL Server Exclusive Lock on Database ‘model’
model database is one of the sytem databases that act as a template database for creating new database, also the size of new database should be greater or equal to model …
Read MoreSQL Server and SSIS Data Types
Many times we are in need of cross-references between SQL Server data types and the data types available with SQL Server Integration Services. This is very much needed when we require …
Read MoreSQL Server: CSS kind of Approach for formatting Reports in SSRS
Till now, SSRS does not support Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) or themes & skins that are available with HTML or .Net development. The approach that I am going to describe is very …
Read MoreConfiguration SSIS to Work with a Named Instance
SQL Server family has various services like Database Services (SQL Server), Analysis Services, Reporting Services which supports Named Instance of the services but there are few others like Integration Services which …
Read MoreFlavors of SQL Server 2008 R2 Express Edition
SQL Server 2008 R2 Express, a free edition of SQL Server is ideal for learning and building applications for desktops, servers and the web. One of the biggest changes from its …
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