How to import an Excel file into SQL Server 2005 using Integration Services
Integration Services, which replaces Data Transformation Services (DTS) in SQL Server 2005, is a tool for extracting, transforming, and loading data.
The Credit Debate
As databases grow, we store more and more types of data. This Friday's poll asks what types of data you don't want to store.
The Credit Debate
As databases grow, we store more and more types of data. This Friday's poll asks what types of data you don't want to store.
The Credit Debate
As databases grow, we store more and more types of data. This Friday's poll asks what types of data you don't want to store.
A Refresher on Joins
Knowing the various types of joins can greatly expand your T-SQL skills. Jambu Krishnamurthy brings us a refresher article on the various types of joins and how to write them.
Bad Automation
Coming up with ways to do things automatically with software can be a boon to productivity, but not every idea is a good one.
Interview with Chuck Kelley - Part I
An interview with a data warehousing expert Chuck Kelley with some views about the careers in data warehousing.
XML Workshop XVII - Writing a LOOP to process XML elements in TSQL
Jacob Sebastian brings a little more complexity to working with XML documents. Here we learn how to iterate through a document and use each node and perform some action on each one.
Data Comparison with Data Dude
In this article Dinesh Priyankara shows how Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals can be used to perform data comparison.
Social Software
More and more companies are looking to use social software, like Facebook, to link employees, but is this a good thing?
Blogs
Rolling Back a Broken Release
By Steve Jones
We had an interesting discussion about deployments in databases and how you go forward...
A bespoke reporting solution doesn’t have to cost the earth
By ChrisJenkins
You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
Presenting with Visual Studio Code
A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...
Forums
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Question of the Day
Creating JSON III
In a SQL Server 2025 table, called Beer, I have this data:
BeerIDBeerName 1Becks 2Fat Tire 3Mac n Jacks 4Alaskan Amber 8KirinI run this code:
SELECT JSON_OBJECTAGG(
BeerID: BeerName )
FROM beer;
What are the results? See possible answers