I've recently purchased a nice Thinkpad, and have set up Hyper-V to manage virtual environments. At the moment I have one VM running Linux and a second one running a...

In truth, while I am impressed and somewhat flattered when an MVP pauses to answer one of my questions, I am just as grateful when anyone in the community answers...

I don't have an answer for you, but...

You might take a look at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45197675/upgrading-of-ssis-packages-from-2008-to-2014

It sounds very close to what you are trying to accomplish.

There is also this article (

I too use have been known to use whatever tool can give me the quick and dirty solution to a data update, load, etc. excel, vbscript, powershell, what have you....

I've always been a bit of a coward when it comes to using the execute package task, and have usually run with a third party task from PragmaticWorks. However, I...

Quite often I just guess, and almost equally as often I guess wrong. But, I enjoy the exercise, plus, eventually I learn the correct answer. I'm very pleased to just...

This filled 2 gaps in my knowledge store, the first being a chance to see an example of the MERGE statement, which is a statement I still know little about, and...

I really have to start reading the whole problem before I answer. Thanks for keeping me humble.

Luther

Fun is solving the problem. Its even more fun if an approach is found that is new, and sustainable, with emphasis on sustainable. If I can't re-use it and improve...

The description "version number" vs "an optional integer that is used to group procedures of the same name" has a bit of a semantic disconnect that took me several minutes to reconcile...

I would love to work with someone like that, and I would like to be more like that person as well. I see that type of person as an asset...

this I have to investigate more thoroughly. I have a number of subqueries in a long running query where I am trying to retrieve the first, the last or the...

Since you are traversing all the folders within \\srvfil01\Claims Autoload, why not just set your file mask as *.xlsx and then check the returned value for "\Pending\"  before processing? It...

I like your idea of a session on starting a blog. I find myself wanting to start a blog, partly because I think here and there I have found a...