As developer /QA it is always a challenge to check the application on different parameters and Data Load is one of them. Sometimes it is not easy to generate the load manually and we may skip this very important process to check our application on different data load which may cause extra pain to our …
Dear Friends, In the series of step by step learning of SSIS this is part #6 in which we are going to learn a new control Data Conversion. I am sure by the name it clear that this control will be use when we require data type conversion of input columns then we need this …
Dear Friends, In the series of Learn SSIS step by step this is the 5th post. Now from this post we are going to use each transformation control one by one. So, lets start with simplest one transformation control which is “Sort”. By the name it is clear data it will sort the data which …
Dear Friends, In last post we have successfully created our fist basic package. So, Now the next thing is how to deploy this package. We have created this package for someone else or our client so we need to run this package on his /her machine. For this we need to know how to deploy. …
Dear friends, In last post #112 we understood WWH (What ,Why & How ) of SSIS. Now , lets move now real quick in practical session where we will try to create a basic simple package. The example which we are creating is well known Export data from SQL SERVER to a flat file. Step …
This is one of the challenge for most of the developer to write dynamic SQL. Generally we follow the approach of string concatenation. This seems very easy but we need to cast the parameters in VARCHAR and sometimes we stuck in single code. I am sure this happened with all of us. Let’s understand first …
As we discussed earlier in TIP#103 for NULL in which I shared that we have to take extra care for NULL. Now in this tip I would like to share one of the interesting setting for NULL. Although it is just for knowledge but don’t use it because it is deprecated in future version and …
I hope all of you aware of User define table type (a table value parameter) which we discussed earlier in TIP #57. Now recently one interesting incident happened. We are using a user define table type in few stored procedure and due to some business requirement change we need to change /update data type …
I recently gone through something and found a unique way of aliasing. I thought it must be share so other techies also aware of it (or might be you already aware of it). See below example SELECT *FROM (VALUES (‘Rajat’,30), (‘Sandeep’,40), (‘Sunil’,35), (‘Shreya’,50), (‘Virendra’,45)) AS T(Name,Runs) Now when you it you will get following result …
When, I first saw this statement a Hindi proverb come to my mind which is “1 teer 2 nishane” . The meaning of this proverb means a single bow which hit two different aim in one shot. So let me explain “Merge” statement in more detail. With the help of this Merge statement we can …