The Story of Precision, Scale, and Length in SQL Server
Hi guys, Did you ever faced issues with BIG mathematical figures – related to either overflow or any other arithmetic errors. This may be applicable to SQL arithmetic operations or arithmetic operations you do with SQL table in SSIS etc. Well, check 1 more time, if you have any issues in your database design related [...]
January 28, 2013
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Khilitchandra Prajapati · 
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Tags: Arithmetic Overflow, Business Intelligence, Error, General, SQL Server, SSIS · Posted in: Business Intelligence, Free, General, Interview QA, Quick Fix, Quick Tips, Script, SQL Server, SQL Server 2012, SQLServerPedia, SSAS, SSIS, SSRS, T-SQL, Tutorial
Tracking Down Ghost Characters: WHERE Clause Does Not Work Properly In T-SQL Query
Hi guys, I would like to share an experience with you when I was working on 1 SSIS related issue. Scenario was: I have to exclude some records from Table A by matching some keys of Table B. Â Table A Year Month CustomerCode <Extra Columns> 2012 JAN CX1000 Â 2012 JAN CX2000 Â 2012 JAN [...]
January 25, 2013
· Khilitchandra Prajapati · No Comments
Tags: Business Intelligence, Carriage Return, Query, Sanity Check, Special Characters, SQL Server, SQL Table Value with Carriage Return, SSIS, T-SQL, Where Clause · Posted in: Business Intelligence, Free, General, Interview QA, Quick Fix, Quick Tips, Script, SQL Server, SQL Server 2012, SSIS, T-SQL, Tutorial
MSSQL: Find total records of each Table in given Database
hi guys, i wanted to do a quick post on how you can find total number of records in each table of the database. here is the script you can use: USE <Your Database Name> GO ;WITH CTE_DATABASETABLESIZE (DATABASENAME, SCHEMANAME, TABLENAME, TOTALROWS) AS ( SELECT Â DB_NAME(), SCHEMA_NAME(SO.UID), SO.NAME, SI.ROWS FROM Â SYSOBJECTS SO Â INNER JOIN SYSINDEXES [...]
January 23, 2013
· Khilitchandra Prajapati · One Comment
Tags: SQL Server, SSIS · Posted in: Business Intelligence, General, Interview QA, SQL Server, SQL Server 2012, SQLServerPedia, SSAS, SSIS, SSRS
Check if file exists: using SSIS
Hi All, Many times, we have to do this simple checking “if file exists/available .. then proceed” in SSIS operations. And Microsoft did not put any facilities to achieve this task in SSIS with default components. People also have raised this concern to Microsoft, but Microsoft explains that they have more priority works to deal [...]
May 10, 2012
· Khilitchandra Prajapati · 9 Comments
Tags: Business Intelligence, Check if file exists, Quick Tips, Script Task, SQL Server, SSIS · Posted in: Business Intelligence, Interview QA, Quick Tips, SQL Server, SSIS, Tutorial
Important Fact: Default Logging in SSIS which store log entries in SQL Server
Hi all, Few days back I have posted an article on “Default Logging in SSIS“. You can refer that here. In that article I have forgotten to mention a behavior of “enabling a default logging in SSIS package“. Let me show you what you need to know about this fact. Fact: When you enable a [...]
April 27, 2012
· Khilitchandra Prajapati · No Comments
Tags: Business Intelligence, Default Logging, Quick Tips, SQL Server, SSIS, Tutorial · Posted in: Business Intelligence, Default Logging, Quick Tips, SQL Server, SQL Server 2012, SSIS, Tutorial
Customizing the Default Logging in SSIS
Hi Guys, Sometimes definitions are wacky. I thought of writing this article on default logging where I could modify it with my application requirements. And guess what… “Customization with default logging” title rendered in mind. Just for fun if you think about it, when you customize the default logging; it would be custom logging. But [...]
April 24, 2012
· Khilitchandra Prajapati · One Comment
Tags: Business Intelligence, Customization, Default Logging, SSIS · Posted in: Business Intelligence, SSIS, Tutorial, Uncategorized
Configuring “Merge Join” Task in SSIS
Hi All, Today I would like to tell you the required settings to be done for using Merge Join in SSIS. Merging the data from 2 different sources can be implemented in various ways. And that depends on many things like both sources are on same SQL server or on different SQL servers but available [...]
April 10, 2012
· Khilitchandra Prajapati · No Comments
Tags: Merge Join, SQL Server, SSIS · Posted in: Merge Join, Quick Tips, SSIS, Tutorial
Passing Multiple Parameter Values from Parent Package to Child Package
Hi All, I would like to bring to your attention a potential improvement in SSIS. When we need to pass parameter value from parent package to child package, we mostly use “Parent package variable” configuration type in child package. But when we need to read multiple values from parent package, we need to create multiple [...]
March 13, 2012
· Khilitchandra Prajapati · No Comments
Tags: Microsoft Connect, Multiple Parameters, Parent Package to Child Package, SSIS, Suggestion · Posted in: Microsoft Connect, SSIS, Suggestion
Ways to execute SSIS package
Hi All, There are lots of methods documented and available on internet. But if you think about the execution of anything you may find more options. Particularly for SSIS packages, there is a golden rule to be bear in mind when planning for executing ssis packages, i.e. you will need SSIS RunTime. Following is the [...]
March 11, 2012
· Khilitchandra Prajapati · 13 Comments
Tags: SQL Agent, SQL Server, SSIS, XP_CmdShell · Posted in: DTEXEC, Interview QA, SSIS, Tutorial, XP_CmdShell
The task “SCR Get Task Start time” cannot run on this edition of Integration Services. It requires a higher level edition. – SSIS 2005 – DTEXEC Execution Result
Hi All, I was testing an SSIS package (Developed using SSIS 2005 version) using DTEXEC command line tool. But it got crashed and showed me long list of exceptions/errors occurred during the “TRY” of execution. (I used the word TRY here because I have logging enabled in my SSIS package, but it did not log [...]
February 17, 2012
· Khilitchandra Prajapati · 2 Comments
Tags: DTEXEC, Error, SQL Server, SSIS · Posted in: DTEXEC, SSIS
