You may be able to leverage an 'instead of' trigger on the parent table. This canintercept the update of the key before it is changed. You can than...

If all you are interested in comparing is the time, you can easily compare the sysjobschedules.active_start_time with sysjobhistory.run_time. They are in the same format (integer) so a simple equality...

I expect you'll have better end results trying to resolve your issues with SSIS/MySQL than using a linked server to bulk insert.

If you really must use the linked server for...

Your table variable does not exist in the @test-2 variable. To use the the table variable in @test-2, your variable declaration must also be included in the set statement...

Here is the definition of the Employee table from the AdventureWorks db. The output is formatted as displayed.

Create View [dbo].[Employee]

AS

( SELECT [EmpID]

...

Assuming no better option, I'm considering adding another step to the job that checks the results of the first step load, which would be incomplete if killed. If the...

If you do create views, I'd recommend putting them in another schema so you can manage permissions at the schema level rather than on individual objects. Schemas can make...

We are using a multi-platform enterprise job monitoring application that we use for call-out support. The SQL Agent job is for a scheduled load from a critical internal application....

SELECT * ,

MaxUnits = CONVERT(INT, 1000 / CONVERT(DECIMAL(5), Price))

FROM #sample

Is removing direct table access an option? You could create views with nolock hint to replace their select access on the tables.

Double check your data before applying the primary key

SELECT COUNT(*), AbcID

FROM StagingTable

GROUP BY AbcID

HAVING COUNT(*) > 1

Verify there are no nulls also. Primary Key cannot be null.

Found it!!!

I needed to include -DisableVariables in the Invoke-SQLCmd statement. Now it runs without erroring on the SQL Token.

Invoke-SQLCmd -Query:$query -Database:'MSDB' -ServerInstance:$TargetSSISServerName -DisableVariables| Out-File $logfile -Append

Wes

I'm scripting the jobs out using SMO into a string variable using SMO and the .Script() method. One of the jobs uses the SQL Token I mentioned above. ...

Put the dynamic sql into a variable and Execute the variable.

DECLARE @sql varchar(max) = '';

SELECT @sql = @sql + '

ALTER DATABASE ' + name + ' SET RECOVERY SIMPLE WITH...

Great feedback.

I hadn't run into the collation issues.

I haven't run into any truncation issues, but I know that our database names and usernames are limited in length. Your sysname...