SQL

As I start to dive deeper into the Business Intelligence area I’ve started putting together a list of my favorite blogs covering this area, in no particular order.

• http://www.bidn.com/
• http://sqlbi.blogspot.com/
• http://cwebbbi.spaces.live.com/
• http://denglishbi.spaces.live.com/
• http://bi-polar23.blogspot.com/
• http://sqlserverbiblog.com/
• http://shahfaisalmuhammed.wordpress.com/
• http://tomislavpiasevoli.spaces.live.com/default.aspx
• http://bimatters.spaces.live.com/

This is a shout out to my former team member learning about SSIS packages for the first time and getting ready to move from SQL 2000 to SQL 2008. Here’s some good reference points for how to do the basics.   Now before you call me and ask what does SSIS stands it stands for SQL Server Integration Services. So below is a couple links that i found i think you may find helpful in your new adventure.

So the other day my former team member call me asking for help. She had inserted the same data into a table three or more times and needed to get rid of them. For those of you with duplications and need to delete them here’s a little statement i came up with and gave her.

DELETE FROM TBL_Employees

WHERE     (EmpID IN

                          (SELECT     MAX(EmpID) AS Expr2

                            FROM          TBL_Employees

                            GROUP BY FirstName

From time to time i run into problems of where some new table appears on m  server and starts eating up all my space. Well i came across this blog posting a while back that does a great job of explaining how to determine the table sizes in a database in SQL 2000 it works in 2005 too.  check it out and let me know what you think.  http://www.mitchelsellers.com/blogs/articletype/articleview/articleid/121/determing-sql-server-table-size.aspx

Earlier this month i attended my first SQL meetup called SQL Saturday #31 i’m not sure why it’s numbered  31 cause i realized they don’t go in order. But yeah so it was hosted in Elk Grove so it wasn’t to far away. I knew it was going to be a awesome day when i met this guy in the registration line who reads my site and learned a couple SQL tricks from it. How sweet is that right? So SQL Saturday is put on by the Professional Association for SQL Server and ran by volunteers.

I got a request for a report the other day so I built this massive 90 line SQL statement to pull all the data requested. So I sent off a copy of the data report and the guy tells me that he needs the date formatted (YYYYMMDD) instead of (YYYY-MM-DD-HHMMSS) and then he was like is that going to be a problem and I was like ha not really. Give me a moment and I’ll send you a simple. Since I can’t remember the correct expression I did a quick Google search and came across this awesome page http://anubhavg.wordpress.com/2009/06/11/how-to-format-datetime-date-in-sql-server-2005/ covering exactly what I was looking for.