Using DTEXECUI to generate a DTEXEC command line statement the easy way
SSIS is one of those tools that I love and hate at the same time. It’s a great ETL tool...
2013-08-05 (first published: 2013-07-31)
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SSIS is one of those tools that I love and hate at the same time. It’s a great ETL tool...
2013-08-05 (first published: 2013-07-31)
2,703 reads
Recently I came across a post on http://www.StackOverflow.com that basically asked how to write a generic stored procedure to handle...
2013-07-31 (first published: 2013-07-22)
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I’ve had to debug database mail problems several times over the last year or so. Below is a collection of...
2013-07-29
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I got to go to the Pass Summit in 2011 and had a fantastic time despite some travel issues caused...
2013-07-24
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I was researching a problem with a partitioned table that had somehow become unpartitioned and discovered something rather interesting.
First here...
2013-07-22 (first published: 2013-07-15)
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I make a point of reading DBAReactions on a fairly regular basis and today while reading it I was lead...
2013-07-17
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Generally if I need to do any form of complicated control flow I’ll end up using SSIS, however there is...
2013-07-15 (first published: 2013-07-08)
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A little while back I wrote Best practice recommendations for writing Dynamic SQL where I made a number of suggestions...
2013-07-01
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How will you back out if your change doesn’t work?! Always take a backup! There should always be a back...
2013-06-26
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What is a metadata function? According to BOL a metadata function is one that returns data about the database or...
2013-06-24
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Forgive me for the title. Mentally I’m 12. When I started my current day...
By Steve Jones
One of the things a customer asked recently about Redgate Data Modeler was how...
By Steve Jones
For a number of years, we’ve produced the State of the Database Landscape report,...
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In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
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