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Stored Procedure Results in an SSIS Message Box
I was recently asked if it is possible to display the results of a query / stored procedure in an SSIS Message box. The answer is Yes, with a bit of C#.
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View SSIS Variables via Message Box
You can use a VB or C# message box to view the current value of a variable. No more guessing!
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Common Table Expressions (CTE) in SQL Server 2005 and Up
Thanks to the team at TechRepublic.com and BOL, I have used CTEs to delete duplicates with ease in SQL Server 2005 and higher. Learn more about CTEs at TechRepublic. Here meat of the article a sample: ;WITH SalesCTE(Product, SaleDate, SalePrice, Ranking) AS (SELECT Product , SaleDate , SalePrice , Ranking = DENSE_RANK() OVER(PARTITION BY Product,…
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Using NOCOUNT, ANSI Warnings and Temp Tables in SQL Server
Here are a few useful code fragments that I use all the time. You see too many Rows Affected Messages. First, NOCOUNT. If you don’t want SQL Server to return the Row Count (20 row(s) affected) after you execute a query, here is the code: — Turn off the rows affected message SET NOCOUNT ON…
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Adding Foreign Keys after a table is created in SQL Server
Well, you knew exactly what you needed when you created a table. Only now when you created a child table, the child table does not update with the information from your main table. Or worse you deleted something from your primary table and it still lives in the child table. You need a foreign key,…
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Adding Checks after a table is created in SQL Server
Did you create a table, only to find that you need to add a check constraint? I created a quick example of how to add a check constraint after the table exists. In this example, we want to know if our user is alive or dead. 1 = alive, 0 = dead. Here is the…