Hey folks, just a quick message that I’ll be presenting this evening at North Texas SQL Server User Group. I’m presenting an updated version of “Have you got the Urge to Merge?” which I gave last month in Fort Worth. I’ve made good progress with my code which generates T-SQL Merge Statements and will be [...]
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This is a quick script which creates a table consisting of State Names and their corresponding Abbreviations. I use this table when doing basic data quality checking and also standardizing state designations. CREATE TABLE dbo.StateLookup As I’ve mentioned before, I think I’m the most avid reader of my blog. I use it to document my work so that I don’t have to constantly re-invent the wheel. In this case, I find myself repeatedly searching for these scripts, often to populate SQL Reporting Services parameter defaults, so I thought I would [...] Recently I worked on a project where every data type was user defined. In case you weren’t aware, SQL Server supports the use of User Defined Data Types. These are custom data types which are based on the standard types. For example, if your data always uses a two character string for states, you may [...] While troubleshooting an existing 2008 R2 package the other day I received the following error. Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component. The error occurred when I was using breakpoints and watch windows to diagnose problems in the package. The breakpoint behavior was off because even when there wasn’t a [...] The Problem When you pass GetDate() as a parameter to a stored procedure, the following error is returned: EXEC dbo.ProcDate GetDate() Msg 102, Level 15, State 1, Line 1 When I ran into this problem, I found this helpful article which suggests that I should assign the value of GetDate() to variable and then pass [...] In a previous article, I listed the benefits of using a dedicated date table and included a customizable script which enables you to quickly create your own version. One of my readers pointed out that he uses the date datatype, rather than using the smart integer key method, when working with SQL 2008+ databases. The [...] Last week PASS announced that Dallas and the North Texas SQL Server User Group have been awarded SQLRally 2012. This is great news for all of the nearby PASS User Groups and DBA’s. We’ve put on three successful SQL Saturday events in 18 months, and I’m proud to have been on the planning [...] Every Kimball Group book I’ve read, as well as every Data Warehouse class I’ve attended, has indicated that a Date Dimension Primary Key should be a smart integer key in the format YYYYMMDD (20110518) so I’ve always built my Date tables that way. However, Barnaby (Blog/Twitter) pointed out that I should be using a Date [...] Calendar Tables are only useful if they reflect how your company evaluates its data. Therefore, any company using non-standard financial fiscal years and periods will require customization with their Calendar or Date Table. In this post, I’ll provide an example of how to do so using the M2M ERP System Database. For those who don’t [...] |
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