Moron's Guide to SSIS : Episode 2 - Introduction to the Dataflow
Today Pragmatic Works release it’s second comedic training video featuring Dustin Ryan as “Dustin” and Brian Knight as “Gary” Dustin’s...
2009-06-19
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Devin Knight
Enabling Checkpoints in your SSIS Packages
Checkpoints are a great tool in SSIS that many developers go years without even experimenting with. I hope to enlighten...
2009-06-18
13,022 reads
Better Know A SSIS Transform – The Pivot Transform
This is part 1 of my 29 part series called Better Know A SSIS Transform. Hopefully you will find the...
2009-06-15
1,691 reads
Answers to Advanced SSIS Interview Questions
Last week I wrote a set of Advanced SSIS Interview Questions. Here are the answers I came up for these. ...
2009-06-12
52,759 reads
SQL Saturday Pensacola
I just returned from another great SQL Saturday event today. Rodney Landrum and Karla Remail put together a great event...
2009-06-06
1,151 reads
Moron's Guide to SSIS : Episode 1 - Introduction to the Environment
Today Pragmatic Works release it’s first comedic training video featuring Dustin Ryan as “Dustin” and Brian Knight as “Gary” Dustin’s boss. ...
2009-06-04
620 reads
SQL Saturday 14 Pensacola
I will be speaking this Saturday at the SQL Saturday in Pensacola. The topic will be SSIS Best Practices and Performance Tuning. ...
2009-06-04
765 reads
Advanced SSIS Interview Questions
I wrote a blog about a year ago that gave some tips on basic interview questions that you may run...
2009-06-04
3,795 reads
First Foundation Class Review
The first Pragmatic Works Foundation class concluded today and I think it was a great success! Each student did very...
2009-04-17
827 reads
Pragmatic Works Foundation Class
This week I've been extremely busy working on the new Pragmatic Works Foundation class, which is the brainchild of Brian...
2009-04-15
703 reads
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The Long Name
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The Long Name
I run this code to create a table:
When I check the length, I get these results:
A table name is limited to 128 characters. How does this work?