We all know testing is important, but face it, testing is not the highlight of anyone's daily work. And more important than testing your code the first time is regression testing after you have fixed a few bugs. Kristian Wedberg brings us a new article that uses SSIS to build a harness that allows repeatable testing of code and applying benchmarks to be sure that things are working as expected.
2005-11-02
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SQL Server 2005 Integration Services is an incredibly powerful, but complex environment for creating ETL packages. Kristian Wedberg brings us a new article on reusing some of your code and some complex looping structures that you might want to use in your applications.
2005-09-06
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DTS was one of the most amazing new features of SQL Server 7 and in SQL Server 2005 it has been renamed to Integration Services. This component has some incredible new capabilities, many of which come at a steep learning curve. New author Kristian Wedberg brings us a basic article and some code on how you can SSIS to generate test data.
2005-08-29
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I have a database, DNRTest, that has a number of tables and other objects in it. The other day, I was trying to mock up a test and ran this code on the same server:
-- run yesterday CREATE DATABASE DNRTest2 GO USE DNRTest2 GO CREATE TABLE NewTable (id INT) GOToday, I realize that I need a copy of DNRTest for another mockup, and I run this:
-- run today USE Master BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest2 FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACEWhat happens? See possible answers