Category Archives: Syndication

Make an SSIS package Delay or Wait for Data

Posted on July 21, 2014 by MikeDavisSQL

Packages can be scheduled to run at a time when you expect data to be in a database. Instead of guessing the time when the data will be in the database we can have the package look for data in … Continue reading →

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SSIS XML Task

Posted on April 7, 2014 by MikeDavisSQL

The XML Task in SSIS allows you to parse through an XML file and read the nodes in the XML. In a previous blog I showed how to use a web service task to get the city and state when … Continue reading →

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SSIS Web Service Task

Posted on March 31, 2014 by MikeDavisSQL

The Web Service task in SSIS can be used to call a web service command to perform a needed operation in your package. The results of most web services will be in XML Format. You can save these results into … Continue reading →

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Using Variables and Parameters SSIS

Posted on March 24, 2014 by MikeDavisSQL

When creating an SSIS package it is always a best practice to use variables, and parameters in 2012,  to avoid hard coding values into any part of your package. But there are some best practices involved with creating those variables/parameters … Continue reading →

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Using Configuration Files in SSIS

Posted on March 17, 2014 by MikeDavisSQL

Now in SQL 2012 we have parameters that make it easy, but configuration files are still an option and I still see a lot of my clients using them even on 2012 due to several reasons, but mostly because of … Continue reading →

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Two Digit Dates in SQL – MM/DD/YYYY

Posted on March 10, 2014 by MikeDavisSQL

When creating dates or numbers as strings it is sometimes required to have two digit numbers. For example, instead of this: 3/1/2011 You want to see this: 03/01/2011 There is an easy way to do this using the Right() function … Continue reading →

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SSRS Top N and Bottom N reporting with Duplicates

Posted on March 3, 2014 by MikeDavisSQL

Previously I wrote a blog on Top N and Bottom N reporting. There were a couple of gotcha I did not cover in that blog so I thought I would cover those here to answer some of the questions I … Continue reading →

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Standard Deviations with CTE in SQL

Posted on February 24, 2014 by MikeDavisSQL

I was working with a client recently getting the number of standard deviations a student was off the average number of suspensions. I accomplished this with two Common Table Expressions, (CTE). The first CTE gets the standard deviation and the … Continue reading →

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SSRS – Creating Drill Through reports with MDX

Posted on February 10, 2014 by MikeDavisSQL

If you are reporting from a Cube in SSRS and you want to drill through to another report you can set up actions just like any other drill through except one small change. The parameter you pass to the drill … Continue reading →

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SSIS – Using Kill with SP_Who to Break locks

Posted on February 3, 2014 by MikeDavisSQL

The dreaded table lock can occur and cause your SSIS packages to fail. A popular request I receive asks “How can I get rid of these table locks?” This blog will show you how to build a package that will … Continue reading →

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