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Lookup is one of many transformations available in SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS). Its purpose is to perform a JOIN of...
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You can easily determine whether existing stored procedures, UDFs and views can work in a higher (or lower, if you wish) compatibility...
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When thinking about the identity property and sequence objects, which of these can be used with numeric and decimal data types?
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