Articles

External Article

Refactoring Databases: The Process

This article describes how to implement a single refactoring within your database. It contains a worked example of the Move Column structural refactoring, whereby we move the Customer.Balance column to the Account table, a seemingly straightforward change to improve the database design.

2007-01-16

3,244 reads

Technical Article

Change Data Capture with SSIS

In this presentation, Brian Knight shows you how to use canned SSIS components to detect data changes in a source table and only load new or conditionally update changed records. He shows you two methods: one using the OLE DB command and another using a set based operation and demostrates you the performance differences between the two.

2007-01-12

2,108 reads

SQLServerCentral Article

Generating Surrogate-Keys for Type 1 and Type 2 dimensions using SSIS

We published a very interesting article about data warehousing in the SQL Server Standard awhile back. However the article was abridged and the author, a very respected data warehousing professional asked that we publish the entire thing here. So we bring you Harsh Bhaiya's very popular ETL treatise.

You rated this post out of 5. Change rating

2007-01-10

13,359 reads

Blogs

A Cloud Dependency Failure from Amazon

By

I went to sleep while reading a Kindle book on my phone. I know...

T-SQL Tuesday #198 Invitation: How Do You Detect Data Changes?

By

It's time for T-SQL Tuesday #198! This month's topic is change detection. The post T-SQL...

Understanding Fabric MCP

By

Model Context Protocol, or MCP, is one of those technical ideas that sounds more...

Read the latest Blogs

Forums

Alamat kantor resmi BCA KCU DAGO Telp:0817629933

By v1n4lov1

WhatsApp:0817629933 Jl. Ir. H. Juanda No.118, Lebakgede, Kecamatan Coblong, Kota Bandung, Jawa Barat 40132

SPAM Issues May 2026

By Steve Jones - SSC Editor

We suffered a SPAM attack from May 1-6, which unfortunately corresponded with time off...

SQL Password enforcing

By Andre 425568

Hi to all We have situation at a client where someone is illegally changing...

Visit the forum

Question of the Day

Creating a JSON Document III

I have this data in a table called dbo.NFLTeams

TeamID  TeamName       City             YearEstablished
------  --------       ----             ---------------
1       Cowboys        Dallas           1960
2       Eagles         Philadelphia     1933
3       Packers        Green Bay        1919
4       Chiefs         Kansas City      1960
5       49ers          San Francisco    1946
6       Broncos        Denver           1960
7       Seahawks       Seattle          1976
8       Patriots       New England      1960
If I run this code, how many rows are returned?
SELECT TOP 2 
  json_objectagg('Team' : TeamName)
FROM dbo.NFLTeams;

See possible answers