Using the Error Output of the Derived Column
The other day I was building a simple data import package when I ran into a common situation; invalid conversions in a Derived Column. The conversion was taking an...
2012-02-01
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Josef Richberg
An Interview at SSWUG
I've been a bit busy for the last few weeks, with the holidays, PASS, working on SSIS (more to come),...
2011-12-05
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SQL PASS Keynote : Day(s) 1&2
This is my first time here at PASS and I got a swept away in all the excitement. I tweeted...
2011-10-13
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SQL University SSIS : Named Pipes -- Consumer
Welcome to the third and last day of the Named Pipes seminar. Today we will get into the consumer portion...
2011-09-28
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SQL University SSIS : Named Pipes -- Producer
Yesterday, I set up the premise for using named pipes in SSIS. Today we are going to get into the...
2011-09-27
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SQL University SSIS : Named Pipes -- Fundamentals
There comes a time when you look at how something is being done and say, "Does it have to be...
2011-09-26
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Easily view errors from Script Components
I've been doing quite a bit of work for my upcoming SQL University class next and in it is a...
2011-09-23
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Easily view errors from Script Components
I've been doing quite a bit of work for my upcoming SQL University class
next and in it is a Script Component. These are the ones that live inside
of...
2011-09-23
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Easily view errors from Script Components
I've been doing quite a bit of work for my upcoming SQL University class next and in it is a Script Component. These are the ones that live inside...
2011-09-23
5 reads
SSIS OLEDB Command and procedure output params
While designing a package last week with our consultant, Latha Chandri (twitter), I came across a need to call a...
2011-06-30
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Adding and Dropping Columns II
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Adding and Dropping Columns II
I have this table in my SQL Server 2022 database:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[CityList] ( [CityNameID] [int] NOT NULL IDENTITY(1, 1), [CityName] [varchar] (30) , [Country2] [char] (3), [stateprovince2] [char] (2), [Country] [char] (3), [stateprovince] [char] ) ON [PRIMARY] GOI decide to drop the stateprovince2 and country2 columns. What code should I use? See possible answers
