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BCP for Flat File ETL

Brent Ozar is hosting today’s #TSQL2sday about the most recent issue you closed. Working with a consulting firm for a variety of clients, I tend…

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Calendar / Date Tables – An Introduction

What is a Calendar or Date table? Maybe you’ve worked with data warehouses before, in which case the concept of a “Date Dimension” is going…

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SSIS Catalog (SSISDB) Cleanup – Revisited

I wrote about cleaning up the SSIS Catalog a while back, but needed to revisit this recently for a different use and needed something that…

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Checking and Configuring File Autogrowth for SQL Server

One thing that I seem to come across often enough is the old auto-growth settings from SQL Server. 1MB for data files, 10% for logs….

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TSQL: OUTPUT Columns Not In Target Table

One of the challenges I’ve run into regularly throughout my years trying to convert data from one system to another is that we have a…

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TSQL Tuesday: “Disabling” Triggers Without ALTERs

I’ve worked with my share of Triggers over the years. Most of the time, they were relatively simple affairs – do a simple update to…

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