SQL Server 2012 supports SHA-256 and SHA-512 through the HASHBYTES() function, but earlier versions of SQL Server do not. SHA-256, SHA-384 and SHA-512 can, however, be implemented in SQL Server 2005 or SQL Server 2008 with the CLR assembly described in this article.
2013-10-07
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Specialized tasks like cryptography require external libraries that are not available in SQL Server. Methods for such tasks can be compiled in a .NET language and deployed to SQL Server as a CLR assembly where the assembly's methods can be referenced by SQL Server stored procedures and functions.
2013-08-13
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An SSIS ETL package created with the Import/Export Wizard uses a Data Flow Task to process one data file at a time. If the need arises, however, the Data Flow Task generated by the wizard can be embedded inside a Foreach Loop Container to batch-process a continuous stream of data files.
2013-06-13
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This SSIS package generates XML invoice documents from data stored in SQL Server, then FTPs and/or Emails them to clients.
2012-04-04
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This article demonstrates how to build an SSIS package that generates an XML invoice document from data stored in SQL Server and saves it to an XML file.
2012-03-28
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This SSIS package performs multiple XSL transformations on an XML document, then shreds the transformed document and inserts its data into a SQL Server table.
2012-03-21
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In Part 2 of this series we will shred an XML document and insert its records into a SQL Server table using both the OpenXML and XQuery methods.
2012-03-14
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This article demonstrates how to generate an XML stream from SQL Server using the 'FOR XML PATH' statement, and how to explore that XML stream interactively using an XSL transformation.
2012-03-07
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Distributed queries on linked servers are not the greatest idea from a performance standpoint, but they can be quite useful.
2012-02-27
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A Multicast Transformation can be used to write the same data file to multiple network folders, but it can be tedious and time-consuming to set up as the number of destination files grows. Learn how you can use this transformation in this article by Stan Kulp.
2012-01-17
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