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  • RE: Control Flow Tasks

    Hugo Kornelis (8/25/2010)


    I had to laugh when I found out WHY I got this question wrong.

    I thought "auto-connect" referred to making a connection to a data source. Not to connecting...

  • RE: Control Flow Tasks

    Interesting question. Learned something today, thanks.

  • RE: The Semantics of NULL in SQL Server 2008

    Kit G (8/24/2010)


    The title of the article says it covers the handling of NULLs in SQL 2008. Is there any difference between SQL 2005 and SQL 2008?

    As far as...

  • RE: Recommend 3rd Party Tools

    Also, you can check out the website of CozyRoc. They have a lot of commercial SSIS components.

  • RE: Multiple execution of SSIS package

    You can store the customerIDs in a table and loop over this table with a for each loop container.

    In the for each loop, you can configure in Variable Mappings that...

  • RE: Passing entire file path in SSIS

    You can store the file path in a variable. Use an Excel source with an Excel Connection Manager to read out the Excel file. Then use this variable in an...

  • RE: Rowcount in log file in SSIS2008

    Aarathy (8/24/2010)


    Hi,

    I just want the rowcount to be captured in log file(.txt file) for reference. So in this case,my execute SQL will not fit in. Right?

    Thanks.

    Ah OK. I thought the...

  • RE: The Semantics of NULL in SQL Server 2008

    Hugo Kornelis (8/24/2010)


    da-zero (8/24/2010)


    I would've liked a paragraph on the behaviour of NULL in COUNT(*) and COUNT(DISTINCT *).

    There's not much to say about that, as COUNT(*) does not care if...

  • RE: Rowcount in log file in SSIS2008

    The event handler will only be fired on specific events, and even if you go with the event handler, you still have to choose between SQL or VB.NET scripting 🙂

    I...

  • RE: SSIS SCRIPT TASK Question

    Luckily I have SSIS open 🙂

    Use the ResultSet property --> Single row

    With this you can set the result of a query to a variable. Configure this in the Result Set...

  • RE: Rowcount in log file in SSIS2008

    You can just insert the variable in the log with a simple SQL INSERT statement.

    Or, you can write OnInformation events to the log and extract the numbers there.

  • RE: The Semantics of NULL in SQL Server 2008

    Carlo Romagnano (8/24/2010)


    One way to avoid worrying about NULLs is never to use them, always declaring columns as not allowing NULLs and designating default values for "empty" or "unknown". This...

  • RE: Round up or down IV

    Again, great question and great explanation.

  • RE: The Semantics of NULL in SQL Server 2008

    Nice article. It summarizes a lot of pitfalls, but I would've liked a paragraph on the behaviour of NULL in COUNT(*) and COUNT(DISTINCT *).

  • RE: DATALENGTH

    kevin.l.williams (8/23/2010)


    Interesting that this does not work the same way.

    select datalength(convert(varchar, getdate(), 101))

    See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa258242(v=SQL.80).aspx.

    When n is not specified with the CAST function, the default length is 30.

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