What is ADF? Level 1 of the Stairway to Azure Data Factory
Azure Data Factory is a new way of moving data around, and this first level gives you a good overview of what the service can do.
2018-10-31
6,520 reads
Andy Leonard
- Interests: SQL Server, Integration Services, Managing Technical Teams, Faith, Family, Farming.
Stairway to Biml Level 4: Using Biml as an SSIS Design Patterns Engine
In this level, we make a large leap forward, showing you how to use BIML to script a large number of packages using C#.
2018-04-04 (first published: 2013-08-14)
15,788 reads
Help for DBAs Who Support SSIS…
SSIS Catalog Compare helps DBAs work with their SSIS project configurations and catalogs, deploying changes from environment to environment.
2017-06-19
1,201 reads
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
4,785 reads
An Overview of SSIS Variables – Step 13 of the Stairway to Integration Services
In this level of the Integration Services Stairway article, Andy Leonard examines SSIS variables.
2015-11-06 (first published: 2013-06-19)
19,910 reads
Stairway to Biml Level 3: Building an Incremental Load Package
The Stairway to BIML continues, with a lesson on how you might build a more complex package: an incremental load package.
2015-08-12 (first published: 2013-08-07)
23,340 reads
The SSIS Data Pump - Level 2 of the Stairway to Integration Services
Learn the basics of data flow in SSIS with the data pump in this second installment of our series designed to teach you about Integration Services.
2014-06-27 (first published: 2011-02-17)
72,171 reads
2014-06-24
413 reads
Deployment and Execution – Level 18 of the Stairway to Integration Services
In the next installment of the stairway to integration services, Andy Leonard looks at deploying and executing the package on an instance of SQL Server.
2014-05-21
10,427 reads
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Using CHOOSE()
We have this code that sets some status values and then queries them using the CHOOSE() function in SQL Server 2025.
CREATE TABLE Status
(
StatusID INT,
StatusDescription VARCHAR(20)
);
GO
INSERT dbo.Status
(
StatusID,
StatusDescription
)
VALUES
(0, 'Uncategorized'),
(1, 'Active'),
(2, 'Inactive'),
(3, 'Temp');
GO
SELECT CHOOSE(StatusID, 'Unknown', 'Active', 'Inactive', 'Temporary')
FROM Status;
When the SELECT runs, what is returned? See possible answers