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Is it possible to run Integration Services 2008 R2 against MSDB at 2005...
Last week I was asked by my colleague whether Integration Services 2008R2 can run against MSDB database located at Microsoft SQL 2005. At first I was in belief it was possible because I remembered...
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Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 and Master Data Services
Do you have Master Data Services deployed? Have you applied Service Pack 1 for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2? Did you know that Cumulative Patches and Service Packs contain updates for MDS but update...
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How to make Master Data Services database operational after restore?
From time to time we need to migrate databases to other instance or we just need to copy database within multi-tier environment. Some databases including Master Data Services database need some after...
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Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 2 Released (10.50.4000.0)
Microsoft has released second service pack for SQL Server 2008 R2 (10.50.4000.0). It contains generally all hotfixes provided in SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 CU 1 to 5. Some of the hotfixes are highlighted...
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Get first and last day of month in SQL 2012 and SQL 2008 and earlier
Today I had to create an ETL for batch loading of records into data warehouse for the current month. For this I had to get first and last day of the current month. Today I would like to share two …...
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Joys With Datetimes
Sometimes we need to generate current timestamp in a special format (e.g. suffixes for backup files). If we are unlucky that requested format is not supported by CONVERT function and SQL Server version...
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