Find SQL Server Integer Columns to Make Skinnier
In this tip we look at a SQL Server script you can use to determine if you can convert your big integer columns to smaller integer data types to save storage space.
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Synchronize Salesforce with SQL Server using SSIS
Easily synchronize live Salesforce data with SQL Server using the Salesforce SSIS DataFlow Tasks.
2014-09-30
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Auto Generating Multiple XML Files Using SSIS
An SSIS package that can generate an XML file for each record in an XML column in a SQL Server Database using the Source Script Component in a Data Flow Task.
2014-08-25
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Unpack an Integer with SQL Server Recursion
Starting with SQL Server 2005, developers have had recursion available as a T-SQL language feature. This article describes recursion and its SQL Server implementations, complete with examples. It also includes SQL Server functions and a stored procedure that unpacks, or parses, an integer into its multiple-of-two components.
2013-04-26
3,186 reads
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What is the range for the result from the EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY() function in SQL Server 2025?
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