to use xp_cmdshell within a SP this is NOT what you need.

regarding the SQL Jobs e.g. using sqlcmd as the step type you are missing one step as per below

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• This reply was modified 3 years, 2 months ago by frederico_fonseca.

I would go further than that - using better names that make it clear what each date is

with dates as 
(select DateFromParts(Year(current_timestamp)-IIf(Month(current_timestamp)=1, 6, 5), 1, 1) as...

and have you considered that we are not here to do your work?

We can help with particular errors or some logic questions - but rewriting your code is not something...

order is a reserved word - either  use 2 naming convention (which you should be doing anyway) or enclose in square brackets - or both

you just need to replace that "if(od.amend..." with a "coalesce(od.amend.." and the "date(..." with a "convert(date, ...".. and fix the IN clause to have all values enclosed in single quotes...

my advise is for your company to hire a good SQL Consultant with both code and Data analysis experience to go through your issues and find out what happened and...

you going to replace a PROD DB with a non prod one? how is it that your QA db is correct and your prod is bad? or is it just...

it will have issues with connecting to prior SSIS instances.

for plain SQL database/dba access it should be fine with 2008 - maybe not 2005.

latest versions also have the "debug" option...

what is the database compatibility level?

Assigning a value to a variable as part of the declaration is only possible if the database is a certain level - don't remember which...

Sometimes, that's difficult because a lot of technical manuals aren't written...

yes - its called "read the manual"

might be good to post a link to the tool you are using

@Ed B - in order to truncate a partitioned table , the table and indexes must be aligned (partitioned on the same partition function).- see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/statements/truncate-table-transact-sql?view=sql-server-ver15

@ScottPletcher - while for a...

how is the packaging being executed? and are those parameters to the SP also parameters to the execution of the package?

and how will the OP create a non clustered PK...