Thursday, December 1, 2016

SQL Server 2016 Reporting Services Cookbook - Published!

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I am happy to announce that SQL Server 2016 Reporting Services Cookbook is published and available for all SQL Server enthusiasts. It i...
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Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Adding double quotes to string value when importing data from SQL Server to CSV

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There have been many discussions on this and but still the issue exist if you try to get it done using the wizard itself. Generally, we ne...
Tuesday, November 29, 2016

What if EXECUTE AS statement executes multiple times

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While discussing about Impersonation , a question raised; If we mistakenly execute EXECUTE AS statement twice, do we have to call REVERT t...
Monday, November 28, 2016

Ignore or disable string truncation error and insert or update records

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String or binary data would be truncated error message is a well known error message and you get this when you try to set a value with hi...
Sunday, November 27, 2016

TRUNCATE Table - SQL Server Brain Basher of the Week #060

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Here is a simple question I asked from an candidate I interviewed last week. This was not the exact topic discussed but while discussing s...
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Friday, November 25, 2016

SSIS OLE DB Destination sends all records to Error Output

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SSIS OLE DB Destination is one of the destinations we heavily used for loading data to databases. Generally we used Data access mode - fas...
Thursday, November 24, 2016

SSIS Exception deserializing the package The process cannot access the file .ispac because it is being used by another process

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For some reasons, my  SQL Server Data Tools were crashing on a specific package and I could not get it up and running after that until I r...
Wednesday, November 23, 2016

SSIS Pivot Transformation

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I have written a post on this in 2011 based on old configuration which is  PIVOT and UNPIVOT: Integration Services . Setting Pivot Transfo...
Tuesday, November 22, 2016

What is SSIS dtsx.designer file?

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Have you noticed that there are additional files with extension dtsx.designer in your Integration Services 2016 projects? You are ...
Monday, November 21, 2016

New way of opening the SSIS toolbox

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Did you notice that SSIS toolbox appears at the right-corner of the package designer in SQL Server 2016 Data Tools? I can remember and I h...
Sunday, November 20, 2016

Quickest way of creating a copy of existing database without data - SQL Server Brain Basher of the Week #059

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Sometime we need to take a copy of the database without data and have it as a new database. This either requires to generate the entire scr...
Saturday, November 19, 2016

Now SQL Server supports CREATE OR ALTER statement

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Another great enhancement with SQL Server 2016 SP1 is the support of CREATE OR ALTER statement with Stored Procedures, Views, Triggers an...
Friday, November 18, 2016

Microsoft SQL Server Backup to Windows Azure Tool

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Earlier I made a post on SQL Server Backup to URL:  SQL Server Backup to URL - Now easier than before that explains how to take a backup ...
Thursday, November 17, 2016

DBCC CLONEDATABASE is now working with SQL Server 2016

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You might have used this command before or you might be unaware of this command. This was introduced with SQL Server 2014 SP2 and it allow...
Wednesday, November 16, 2016

SQL Server 2016 Service Pack 1 (SP1) released

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Do not expect another standard service pack that contains all hot-fixes and updates done on the previous version, this has something else,...
Monday, November 14, 2016

Analysis Services: Can we change the mode of an instance after installation?

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SQL Server Analysis Services allows us to install the instance in three different modes; Multidimensional Tabular PowerPivot for Shar...