T-SQL Tuesday #179 Roundup: The Data Detective Toolkit

Earlier this month, I hosted the monthly T-SQL Tuesday invitation in which I asked, “What’s in your data detective toolkit?” We got some great responses which I’ll recap here, and I’ll share a few thoughts of my own at the end. First up, Rob Farley shared his approach, which focuses on the bigger picture of the business use of the…

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Connecting to SharePoint Lists with SSIS

SharePoint lists are popular and simple tools for storing modestly-sized discrete sets of data. SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) includes a source component to allow reading data from SharePoint lists. In this post, I’ll demonstrate how to use SSIS to read from a SharePoint list using the OData source. SharePoint lists A SharePoint list is a simple collection of related…