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
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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)
15,780 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
1,197 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
4,780 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)
19,891 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)
23,333 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)
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2014-06-24
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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
10,410 reads
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Finding Trailing Spaces
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Question of the Day
Finding Trailing Spaces
I have some data in a SQL Server 2025 database. It looks like this for the dbo.Customer table:
CustomerID CustomerName PreferredName 1 Steve Steve 2 Andy Andy 3 Brian Brian 4 Allan Allan 5 Devin Devin 6 Steve Steve 7 Sally SallyI want to detect which names have a single trailing space. The CustomerName is a varchar() and the PreferredName is a CHAR(). Does this query detect the problem rows?
SELECT
CustomerID,
CustomerName,
PreferredName
FROM Customer
WHERE CustomerName <> RTRIM(CustomerName)
OR PreferredName <> RTRIM(PreferredName); See possible answers