Folders in Workspaces is now in Preview.

No need for SSAS, now that there are semantic models.

IMO, migrating to Power BI 'Tabular Reports' from SSRS is super simple and worth investigating.

DF does not replace SSIS, however. We have tried to migrate and failed (and gone back...

Did you try BISM Normalizer? Looks like the schema compare...

Are you looking to store the entire file as a single BLOB, or import its contents as individual columns?

You are correct in thinking that you need the TrustServerCertificate=true bit in your connection string. The latest version of SQL Server depends on it, unless you have a server cert...

It really depends on the data.

Try injecting ''00X11' into your version. It removes the 'X', which is not one of the specified requirements. I'm all for elegant code, and maybe...

The proposed solutions seem to be a bit more code than is needed:

SELECT *
     , ActualID = substring(ss.Str1, patindex('%[1-9]%', ss.Str1), 25)
 ...

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS #SomeString;

CREATE TABLE #SomeString
(
    Str1 VARCHAR(25)
);

INSERT #SomeString
(
    Str1
)
VALUES
('D00241')
,('00242 ')
,('Chicken Tikka Masala');

SELECT ss.Str1
      ,CASE
...

Here is another version of your query which looks a bit tidier (as it does not rely on DISTINCT to remove dupes). But I'm not sure it will perform any...

You could try BISM Normalizer.

I haven't used it, but it looks promising.

You may be able to automate the production of a schema comparison report with it.

What do you want to happen in the case where the deployed version is found to be different from the VCS version?

Please provide your sample data in consumable format (in the form of CREATE TABLE/INSERT statements).

If the format of your desired output is exactly as stated, you would be better off...

Are there some people who think that 'duplicate' means 'same or similar'?

If it's a duplicate, it is exactly the same and can be dropped. Otherwise, it is not a duplicate...

Then either one of the responses given above...

Simply DROP the index you no longer wish to keep.