SSIS Basics: Introducing Variables
In the third of her SSIS Basics articles, Annette Allen shows you how to use Variables in your SSIS Packages, and explains the functions of the system-defined variables.
2012-08-20
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Articles
REPLACE Multiple Spaces with One
Replacing multiple spaces with a single space is an old problem that people use loops, functions, and/or Tally tables for. Here's a set based method from MVP Jeff Moden.
2012-08-17 (first published: 2009-11-16)
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Row Count Plus Transformation
As the name suggests we have taken the current Row Count Transform that is provided by Microsoft in the Integration Services toolbox and we have recreated the functionality and extended upon it. There are two things about the current version that we thought could do with cleaning up Lack of a custom UI You have to type the variable name yourself In the Row Count Plus Transformation we solve these issues for you.
2012-08-17
3,183 reads
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2012-08-17 (first published: 2012-08-13)
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2012-08-16
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SQL Server 2012 Integration Services - Using dtexec.exe to Run File System-based Packages
Marcin Policht explores a method of running SSIS packages that relies on the dtexec.exe utility.
2012-08-16
2,694 reads
Red Gate’s new custom metrics site - with a little help from our friends
With contributions from MVPs and the SQL Server community, the SQL Monitor team at Red Gate has put together a custom metrics site, SQL Monitor Metrics, to accompany the release of SQL Monitor 3.2. The site hosts T-SQL scripts which can be imported directly to SQL Monitor for custom metric monitoring.
2012-08-15
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Implement Continuous Integration In Your Software Project
Continuous integration, or CI, brings developers closer to delivering error-free software flawlessly. Find out how to implement it.
2012-08-15
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PASS Data Architecture VC presents Louis Davidson on Designing for Common Problems in SQL Server
On Thursday August 16th 12PM noon Central, Louis Davidson will do a design and code review of several common patterns of solving problems that a typical programmer will come up against in SQL Server.
2012-08-15
1,182 reads
11 Tips to Backup databases with SMO, VB, C# Powershell, Command lines
Sometimes we need to create backups using code. Sometimes we need to do it manually or automatically, programmatically using C#, VB, Powershell.
2012-08-14
7,638 reads
Blogs
Automatic Index Compaction
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The Goldilocks problem – Materialized Views
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Question of the Day
Getting the Average
I have this data in the dbo.Commission table in a SQL Server 2022 database.
salesperson commission Brian 12 Brian 16 Andy 7 Andy 14 Andy 21 Steve 20 Steve NULLAll the data is a varchar, and I decide to run this query to get the totals for each salesperson.
SELECT SalesPerson
, AVG(TRY_PARSE(Commission AS int)) AS TotalCommission
FROM commission
GROUP BY SalesPerson
GO
What average commission is calculated for Steve? See possible answers