Data Profiling in SSIS
In this presentation, Ira shows you how to data profile in SSIS using a Script transform and some creative methods like RegEx. He shows you how to look for patterns in your data to find bad data that wouldn't be obvious to the eye or casual viewer.
Creating a SSIS Custom Source Component
In this article author Paul Mu shows us how you can create a custom component for the new SQL Server 2005 Integration Services environment.
SQL Server 2005 Integration Services - Part 40 - Web Service Task
Part 40 of this series reviews a Web Service Control Flow task that exposes an infinite range of easily deployable features by leveraging capabilities present in the .NET Framework.
Refactoring Databases: The Process
This article describes how to implement a single refactoring within your database. It contains a worked example of the Move Column structural refactoring, whereby we move the Customer.Balance column to the Account table, a seemingly straightforward change to improve the database design.
Easy code archiving in SQL Server 2005
Learn how to keep track of previous versions of code in case your next upgrade doesn't go well from SQL Server guru Tim Chapman.
Calculating Days of the Week and Accounting Months 5-4-4
Learn how to calculate days of the week based on the current date and how to calculate accounting months.
Change Data Capture with SSIS
In this presentation, Brian Knight shows you how to use canned SSIS components to detect data changes in a source table and only load new or conditionally update changed records. He shows you two methods: one using the OLE DB command and another using a set based operation and demostrates you the performance differences between the two.
Overview and Installing SQL Server 2005 SP2
In this presentation Brian shows you some of the new features in SQL Server 2005 SP2. Then, he demos briefly how to install SP2 and some of the small quirks around the installation.
Write PIVOT queries in SQL Server 2005
New to SQL Server 2005 is the PIVOT operator, which gives you the ability to rotate row level data into tabular data without the use of the CASE statement, as was necessary in previous versions of SQL Server.
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Question of the Day
Creating a JSON Document II
I want to create a JSON document that contains data from this table:
TeamID TeamNameCity YearEstablished 1 Cowboys Dallas 1960 2 Eagles Philadelphia 1933 3 Packers Green Bay 1919 4 Chiefs Kansas City 1960If I run this code, what document(s) is/are returned?
SELECT json_objectagg( n.city : n.TeamName) FROM dbo.NFLTeams;See possible answers