About my blog

I write about the technical and non-technical aspects of software development

How it works

Microsoft ASP.NETASP.Net
BlogEngine.NET BlogEngine.NET
Azure DevOpsAzure DevOps

Contact info

 Email
 Contact

Follow me

Prod-20240407.1

Categories

Posts in the 'TSQL' category

Au revoir, spreadsheets
Au revoir, spreadsheets

Once you've decided you're moving your spreadsheet data to a relational database, you have to get your data database-ready. How do you do that?

The spreadsheet conundrum
The spreadsheet conundrum

There's no question that spreadsheets are a fantastic tool for many jobs involving small to moderate amounts of data. But is there a better way?

Creating Configurable and Portable SSIS Packages Part 3
Creating Configurable and Portable SSIS Packages Part 3

In this article I’ll conclude my set of articles into SSIS configuration. This article will be

Creating Configurable and Portable SSIS Packages Part 2
Creating Configurable and Portable SSIS Packages Part 2

In Part 1 I showed how a simple SSIS package could be created using variables and expressions as a b

Creating Configurable and Portable SSIS Packages Part 1
Creating Configurable and Portable SSIS Packages Part 1

This is the first part of a two-part post about creating and deploying a simple SSIS package. When I

Get a comma-delimited list of columns
Get a comma-delimited list of columns

One of the things I've been doing recently has been writing lots of SQL inserts in which I've had to

How to tell what has changed in a SQL Server Database
How to tell what has changed in a SQL Server Database

One of the things I've had to do recently is work out if objects on a SQL Server had been modified a