2012-04-27
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Integration Services (SSIS)
5 Tips for a Smooth SSIS Upgrade to SQL Server 2012
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Integration Services (SSIS) provides significant improvements in both the developer and administration experience. This article provides tips that can help to make the upgrade to Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Integration Services successful. The tips address editing package configurations and specifically connection strings, converting configurations to parameters, converting packages to the project deployment model, updating Execute Package tasks to use project references and parameterizing the PackageName property.
2012-04-20
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2012-04-18
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Basics of XML and SQL Server, Part 5: Generate/Transmit XML with SSIS
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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2012-03-23
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2012-03-14
1,939 reads
SQL Server Integration Services - Delay Validation
Using delay validation the designer can control the response of default behaviour of package validation which happens at design time and also at run time.
2012-03-08
5,322 reads
Exploring SSIS Architecture and Execution History Through Scripting
When you are using SSIS, there soon comes a time when you are confronted with having to do a tricky task such as searching for particular connection strings in all your SSIS packages, or checking the execution history of scheduled SSIS jobs. You can do this type of work effectively in T-SQL as Feodor Georgiev explains.
2012-03-02
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Using SSIS to Maintain the File System
Integration Services is one of the more flexible tools available on the SQL Server platform. Jason Brimhall shows us a way to remove old files, either backups or flat files, after a configurable period of time.
2012-02-24
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SQL Server 2012 SSIS – Sending files using FTP Task
This article will show you how to configure the FTP task in SSIS send files to remote server using the FTP protocol.
2012-02-23
7,639 reads
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Question of the Day
The string_agg function
We create the following table and then insert some records in it:
create table t1 ( id int primary key, category char(1) not null, product varchar(50) ); insert into t1 values (1, 'A', 'Product 1'), (2, 'A', 'Product 2'), (3, 'A', 'Product 3'), (4, 'B', 'Product 4'), (5, 'B', 'Product 5');What happens if we execute the following query in both Sql Server and PostgreSQL?
select id,
category,
string_agg(product, ';')
over (partition by category order by id
rows between unbounded preceding and unbounded following) as stragg
from t1; See possible answers