Creating ETL process can pose so many challenges we will only fully discover them when really building the ETL. Before you complain about modelling, the example here has no relation to data warehouse modelling. The ETL in question was a migration from a data source to another. The need for executing multiple times was mainly … Read more
Graph structures are something that I have lightly covered in my Database Design book in the last few book editions (the last coinciding with SQL Server 2016), implementing them with relational tables. In the next edition of my book that I am starting to write now, my goal will be to cover one of the … Read more
This script will copy out all the tables from one version of a database in native BCP format, and place them in a directory of your choice, but defaulting to your user area in a directory called BCPFiles. They are placed in sub directories based on your server name and database name, just to keep … Read more
This has been quite a year, which is why this year’s resolutions are not in October as had been my previous practice. This year for me has been defined by three major things: Knee replacement – Having had one of my hips replaced twice, I figured I had this knocked out cold and would actually … Read more
Here, in this blog, I’m continuing a theme that I started in a previous blog, ‘What’s in that database? Getting information about routines’. In that blog, I just wanted to provide a few examples of extracting metadata from SQL Server into Powershell and hinting about why one might want to do it. I’ll now show … Read more
There is a lot of information held in SQL Server metadata about your SQL Server procedures, triggers, views and functions. Some of it is valuable, other nuggets are useful and a few are rather dull but worthy. It really all needs to be tied together to tell the full story, especially if you are not … Read more
SQL Server Management Objects (SMO) is a great tool for managing SQL Server. Darko Martinovic demonstrates how to use SMO within a C# solution to create tables, backup the database, and more.… Read more
T-SQL does not have an easy way to transpose a row and a column. Of course, there is the PIVOT statement, but it doesn’t quite accomplish the task. In this article, Darko Martinovic shares another method using a SQLCLR stored prodedure.… Read more
So how easy is it to set up a database-driven application on Azure, using the tools that one is familar with. There are several different ways of doing it, and Bud decides to find out which is the best way… Read more
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