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SSIS Catalog Compare helps DBAs work with their SSIS project configurations and catalogs, deploying changes from environment to environment.
2017-06-19
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Andy Leonard
- Interests: SQL Server, Integration Services, Managing Technical Teams, Faith, Family, Farming.
Training: Zero to BIML
A four-day course aimed at BI developers who want to use Business Intelligence Markup Language (BIML) to generate SQL Server Integration Services packages.
2017-05-25
3,411 reads
Migrating SSIS Projects and Parameters, Part 1
In this first part to looking at deploying SSIS packages to new environments, Andy Leonard looks at a few options for migrating your work to a new instance.
2016-06-21
4,748 reads
Data Warehouse Development: Version 0
What do you do first when developing a data warehouse? MVP Andy Leonard brings us a look at the foundation he uses, which might surprise you.
2011-04-07
9,089 reads
An Example of Test-Driven Development, Part 5
The fifth installment of this fantastic series by MVP Andy Leonard looks at database versioning. Be sure to read this one to continue learning more about TDD.
2010-11-26 (first published: 2009-08-20)
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An Example of Test-Driven Development, Part 4
Continuing on with his testing series for T-SQL code, MVP Andy Leonard looks at deployment here.
2010-11-19 (first published: 2009-07-15)
8,917 reads
An Example of Test-Driven Development, Part 3
Andy Leonard continues on with his series on TDD. This time he performs some refactoring on his solution.
2010-11-12 (first published: 2009-07-13)
10,638 reads
An Example of Test-Driven Development, Part 2
In this next installment of his series on TDD, MVP Andy Leonard continues the development of his database.
2010-11-05 (first published: 2009-06-16)
16,642 reads
An Example of Test-Driven Development
Developing a database can be an trying experience, and it's ways good to see how someone else builds a design. In this new article, MVP Andy Leonard shows us how to build a database using test-driven development for a weather database.
2010-10-29 (first published: 2009-04-30)
28,379 reads
SSIS 101: Object Variables, ResultSets, and Foreach Loop Containers
SQL Server MVP and SSIS guru, Andy Leonard, discusses Integration Services and some of the tasks and containers that he uses quite often.
2010-02-05 (first published: 2008-08-21)
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Restoring On Top I
I am doing development work on a database and want to keep a backup so I can reset my database. I make some changes and want to restore over top of my changes. When I run this code, what happens?
USE Master BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO USE DNRTest GO CREATE TABLE MyTest(myid INT) GO USE master RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACESee possible answers