Sadly, as people don’t make sense, we have to make compromises in our systems and processes. I recently had a requirement, in an SSIS package, to be able to identify which days were Bank Holidays and take a different course of action, e.g. not run the main process. Here’s an illustration of the approach I [...]

This week I was tasked with testing a stored procedure that was meant to output data on certain days. This was over a 120 day period, so I wanted to find some automated way of doing this, rather than changing the server date manually for each execution. The method I came up with involves the [...]

So exactly what is a computed column? MSDN has this to say A computed column is computed from an expression that can use other columns in the same table. The expression can be a noncomputed column name, constant, function, and any combination of these connected by one or more operators. The expression cannot be a [...]