Take a look at how SQL Server Import Export Wizard creates an SSIS Package to do the ETL. ...

This article explains what a Data Flow Task is and what the aspects of Data Flow Task worth noting for a beginner....

Unfortunately SSIS does not provide regular expression or an IsNumeric check which is required very often to validate the data. I came across a neat work around. Here it goes: In the derive column set up the following expression for a new column. (...

Often I see lot of SQL deveopers complaining about the error when using datetime values in their queries. The common error that almost everyone would heard about is "Conversion failed when converting date and/or time from character string." But in gener...

Beside XML, JSON is the most common way of data transfer in AJAX applications. We will study this file format in more details in this section....

Recently we have seen the post for database size information and script used for the same too. Hope you liked that post. Sometime we need to have details like database size for growth and disk planning as we viewed in earlier post, same way i am repeati...

Are your SQL Server instances up-to-date? Use official SQL Server Build lists to know about the latest releases of SQL Server....

In Query Analyser, set the result mode to Text (Press CTRL+T), execute the following code and see the result. set nocount on select space(total-len(replicate(char(characters),no)))+ replicate(char(characters),no*2-1) from ( ...

Hope you read my earlier post of "Replication components are not installed on this server" issue, you may liked it. One day suddenly replication went to high latency and i was clicked it during monitoring. I opened replication monitor, during analysis i...

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