Converting Inches to Centimeters - Long Hand
Today I had to write a little function that takes the long had version of a fraction, say 8 3/4 and convert it a proper number (float) and then...
2013-02-26
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Converting Inches to Centimeters - Long Hand
Today I had to write a little function that takes the long had version of a fraction, say 8 3/4 and convert it a proper number (float) and then...
2013-02-26
9 reads
Working with Excel Destinations in SSIS - 0xC0202025, 0x80040E21
Working with Excel in SSIS is not fun and something I whole-heartedly discourage. With that said, I had a not...
2012-12-12
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Existence Check Deconstructed -- SSIS Lookup Transformation
There are countless ways to mix and match components in SSIS to simulate what SQL Server does in a query....
2012-11-10
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Existence Check Deconstructed -- SSIS Lookup Transformation
There are countless ways to mix and match components in SSIS to simulate
what SQL Server does in a query. Here I am going to show you how to...
2012-11-10
50 reads
Existence Check Deconstructed -- SSIS Lookup Transformation
There are countless ways to mix and match components in SSIS to simulate what SQL Server does in a query. Here I am going to show you how to...
2012-11-10
12 reads
SSIS Data Flow Tuning
During my SSWUG webcast I was asked to give some examples on how to tune the DefaultBufferMaxRows and DefaultBufferSize, so...
2012-04-27
2,813 reads
SSIS Data Flow Tuning
During my SSWUG webcast I was asked to give some examples on how to tune
the DefaultBufferMaxRows and DefaultBufferSize, so here goes.
When a source is pulling in data, it places them into...
2012-04-27
170 reads
SSIS Data Flow Tuning
During my SSWUG webcast I was asked to give some examples on how to tune the DefaultBufferMaxRows and DefaultBufferSize, so here goes.
When a source is pulling in data, it...
2012-04-27
10 reads
SSWUG Expo..I'm up!
I am proud to say that one of the webcasts I taped last year for SSWUG is part of the...
2012-04-26
324 reads
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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
