Welcome to SSC.  I think your question needs some help.  One thing that's a challenge when you first start out is knowing how to ask a question that will get...

just an FYI.

the best way to get help here is to post the SQL statements to recreate your problem in a code window inside you post. People will be super...

In case you feel like doing some reading.... You're trying to find the size of each island. here's an article on it: https://www.red-gate.com/simple-talk/databases/sql-server/t-sql-programming-sql-server/introduction-to-gaps-and-islands-analysis/

Sorry for not minding my own business, but what if you created a schema for the temporary objects? Then when you're sure you're done with them, just use DROP SCHEMA.

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DROP...

Maybe this hints at what's going on?

https://blog.greglow.com/2019/02/26/sql-text-vs-varcharmax-in-row-vs-out-of-row-storage/

It might be that the varbinary(8000) is stored outside the row of your table, so when you do not include that column in your...

Phil,

does that fix the problem if you're using the import wizard from within SQL Server?

Thanks!

Pieter

CSV and Excel you can pretty much use the Import Data stuff... just fires up SSIS and runs the wizard. You can also use something like BULK INSERT to do...

Oh I'm an idiot.

Create separate PowerQueries that read a single table and clean all that junk. (Just duplicate the query instead of referencing it). Then have one return the Purchases...

Never heard of any of those file types (are they?), but generally speaking, the pattern for ingesting data into PowerBI is

1. filter for a specific file type.

2. use PowerQuery to...

Looks like you would have to put all the items you want backed up into one or more filegroups (so that you can leave out the ones you do not...

CROSS APPLY is analogous to INNER JOIN <table-valued function> and OUTER APPLY is analogous to OUTER JOIN <table-valued function>.

That was easy!

Just gonna leave this here:

https://www.mssqltips.com/tutorial/how-to-shrink-the-transaction-log/

Are the execution plans different? I would look there first. And test it out on a dev instance so you can do terrible things like DBCC FREEPROCCACHE, which you should...

Seems like you should be able to CAST the end result of the query to get less precision. The only problem is if you're losing precision in the CTE.

What "one very important step" am I missing? Please elaborate!

Seems to me, I should use a For Each File loop in SSIS, and then inside that, pass the file name...

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