What is SSIS? It stands for SQL Server Integration Services which may be used for building high performance data integration and workflow solutions, including extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) operations for data warehousing. Today I am going to show you a simple solution on how to extract data and save it to a file. This exercise will show some commonly used elements to creating a lot of different solutions.
Category: Hints and Tips
Move User Database file to another drive
Have you ever received an email like below and then got a big pain in your stomach? Disk E: is running out of room and you need to move one of your user database files before you totally fill the disk. Yes, your VM admin might be able to add disk space but they are out sick or this is a physical machine and you need to order bigger disks and you need to make this change right now.
Capitalize a string
When you look at your data, do you see a mish mash of formats? Do some people use camel case, some all lowercase, some upper? Here is a quick script that you can use to capitalize the first letter in your single word strings.
Query Timeout Expired
If you ever use linked servers to run queries on a remote database server, you may run into this issue if your queries take longer than 10 minutes: OLE DB provider “SQLNCLI11” for linked server xxxxx returned message “Query timeout expired” [SQLSTATE 01000] (Message 7412)
Maintenance Cleanup Task
You have been diligently backing up your database and transaction logs, but now you have a directory that is full of files that have been backed up to disk/tape already or are no longer needed since they are old. Within SSMS, you are able to create a job that can delete out the files that are no longer needed. Continue reading Maintenance Cleanup Task
My favorite SSMS add-in….SSMSBoost
Sql Server Management Studio is very robust and can do many things, but like any other product cannot do everything. Luckily there are add-ins available that fill in some of the gaps. My favorite and one I use every single day is SSMSBoost, (I no longer use it due to the change in the community license and the useful functions being taken away.)
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