I don’t use RAISERROR often – I usually forget which severity code to use. After looking at a sprinkling of them recently I decided it was time for a refresher, so come along for the ride. If you check out the online documentation it states that “New applications should use THROW instead”. It also sounds like its used to raise […]
When creating SQL Agent jobs to execute SSIS packages we can choose the level of logging to be captured. Different settings are more beneficial under the right circumstances so it’s important to understand the differences to make the right decision. These settings control the internal logging done by SSIS. This is out of the box […]
Last time out we looked at how data can be persisted even with a ROLLBACK being executed. Here we’re going to take that and look at an example of using it in action. We’ll generate some data – which may be good or bad – and try to add it to a table. If there’s any bad data […]
I’d previously inherited a legacy SQL environment running SSAS with a handful of multi-dimensional models. The models were actively being used however development on them had ceased a number of years earlier so it was just a case of keeping the lights on. The problem Fast forward to the point we wanted to start winding […]
Andy Brownsword 