This article explains how to import text files using SSIS in those cases where the text files have different formatted data on different rows. The solution recommended involves minimal coding and is highly maintainable.
A new technology could be a boon for database servers, dramatically increasing the amount of memory available for SQL Server.
Steve Jones looks ahead to an interesting trip for the future of a couple of technical geeks.
Steve Jones looks ahead to an interesting trip for the future of a couple of technical geeks.
Steve Jones looks ahead to an interesting trip for the future of a couple of technical geeks.
This tip shows you how you can apply the cross-validation feature in the upcoming SQL Server 2008 release to estimate if the training set size is sufficient for a given model.
Optimize SQL Server non-clustered indexes and queries by considering index fields, compound indexes and SQL Server statistics' impact on non-clustered indexes.
Expressions can be used to dynamically build an output file. Here we will show you another way to do this using the script task.
SQL Server 2008 sets a TPC record. And it hasn't even been released. This editorial was originally published on Mar 4, 2008. It is being rerun as Steve is on vacation.
This article will show how you can produce a return regardless of variables passed and debugging tool for @SQL String.
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What values are returned from this code?
CREATE SEQUENCE NumericSequence
AS NUMERIC(5,1)
START WITH 1.0
INCREMENT BY 0.1;
GO
SELECT NEXT VALUE FOR NumericSequence
GO
SELECT NEXT VALUE FOR NumericSequence
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