Data Everywhere - Level 3 in the Stairway to Reporting Services
In this article, MVP Jessica Moss talks about data sources and how to connect them to your report. Learn how to add the reusable data sets and data sources for your reporting projects.
Data Everywhere - Level 3 in the Stairway to Reporting Services
In this article, MVP Jessica Moss talks about data sources and how to connect them to your report. Learn how to add the reusable data sets and data sources for your reporting projects.
Deleting Rows in Incremental Loads – Level 5 of the Stairway to Integration Services
In this installment of the Stairway to Integration Services, MVP Andy Leonard completes the incremental load section with a look at how deletes at the source are handled when loading data into SQL Server.
Deployment and Execution – Level 18 of the Stairway to Integration Services
In the next installment of the stairway to integration services, Andy Leonard looks at deploying and executing the package on an instance of SQL Server.
Designing a Dashboard - Level 6 in the Stairway to Reporting Services
This article walks through a sample dashboard, highlighting sparklines, databars, and indicators.
Experiments with full text search
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Extra, Extras - Level 7 in the Stairway to Reporting Services
This article highlights each of the additional items needed to create a clean but beautiful report. Using the simple items of headers and footers, textboxes, and other layout options will increase the readability and manageability of your reports.
Flexible Source Locations - Level 16 of the Stairway to Integration Services
Integration Services can be used to load data from a number of source files stored in different folders. This next level in the Stairway Series for Integration Services shows exactly how you can use parameters, variables and the ForEach Loop Container to do this.
Getting started with StreamInsight
A quick-start to SQL Server StreamInsight and Complex Event Processing with a step-by-step example on stock quotes.
Intermediate SSIS Workflow Management – Level 7 of the Stairway to Integration Services
The next installment of our Stairway to Integration Services looks at the precedence constraints in your package workflow.
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An Unusual Identity
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An Unusual Identity
What values are returned when I run this code?
CREATE TABLE dbo.IdentityTest2
(
id NUMERIC(10,0) IDENTITY(10,10) PRIMARY KEY,
somevalue VARCHAR(20)
)
GO
INSERT dbo.IdentityTest2
(
somevalue
)
VALUES
( 'Steve')
, ('Bill')
GO
SELECT top 10
id
FROM dbo.IdentityTest2 See possible answers