Using the Error Output of the Derived Column
The other day I was building a simple data import package when I ran into a common situation; invalid conversions in a Derived Column. The conversion was taking an...
2012-02-01
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Josef Richberg
An Interview at SSWUG
I've been a bit busy for the last few weeks, with the holidays, PASS, working on SSIS (more to come),...
2011-12-05
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SQL PASS Keynote : Day(s) 1&2
This is my first time here at PASS and I got a swept away in all the excitement. I tweeted...
2011-10-13
420 reads
SQL University SSIS : Named Pipes -- Consumer
Welcome to the third and last day of the Named Pipes seminar. Today we will get into the consumer portion...
2011-09-28
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SQL University SSIS : Named Pipes -- Producer
Yesterday, I set up the premise for using named pipes in SSIS. Today we are going to get into the...
2011-09-27
679 reads
SQL University SSIS : Named Pipes -- Fundamentals
There comes a time when you look at how something is being done and say, "Does it have to be...
2011-09-26
591 reads
Easily view errors from Script Components
I've been doing quite a bit of work for my upcoming SQL University class next and in it is a...
2011-09-23
768 reads
Easily view errors from Script Components
I've been doing quite a bit of work for my upcoming SQL University class
next and in it is a Script Component. These are the ones that live inside
of...
2011-09-23
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Easily view errors from Script Components
I've been doing quite a bit of work for my upcoming SQL University class next and in it is a Script Component. These are the ones that live inside...
2011-09-23
6 reads
SSIS OLEDB Command and procedure output params
While designing a package last week with our consultant, Latha Chandri (twitter), I came across a need to call a...
2011-06-30
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Blogs
Presenting with Visual Studio Code
A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...
Advice I Like: In 100 Years
By Steve Jones
In 100 years a lot of what we take to be true now will...
dataMinds Saturday 2026 – Slides
At Saturday the 21st of February I’m presenting an introduction to dimensional modelling at...
Forums
AllocationType as ROW_OVERFLOW_DATA
Hello, I inherited a number of tables with like 20-30 column using nvarchar(256) in...
is it true we cant debug c# scripts in ssis anymore under vs
Hi, i'm running vs2022. I'm trying out a c# script that i'd like to...
Question of the Day
Missing the Jaro Winkler Distance
I upgraded a SQL Server 2019 instance to SQL Server 2025. I wanted to test the fuzzy string search functions. I run this code:
SELECT JARO_WINKLER_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
I get this error message:Msg 195, Level 15, State 10, Line 1 'JARO_WINKLER_DISTANCE' is not a recognized built-in function name.What is wrong? See possible answers