How do you know from the data when a DBAS event ends? Just prior to the next DBAS event?

For someone with as much experience here as you seem to have, where's the explanation of what you're trying to do? You know, in plain English.

For someone with as much experience here as you seem to have, where's the explanation of what you're trying to do? You know, in plain English.

Try/Catch blocks?

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/language-elements/try-catch-transact-sql?view=sql-server-ver16

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!