Wednesday, August 30, 2006

A little tip...

...you know in SSIS when you have to create a parameter based OLE DB command (UPDATE tablename SET column1 = ?, column2 = ?, etc) well an easy way of getting the SQL statement together without the pain of typing those ? in yourself is this.

Right click on the table in SQL Management Studio and create a script to update the table you’re looking to update. Then do a Ctrl H (search and replace) which then gives you the option to replace based on a wildcard search. Search for “= <*>” and replace with “= ?” and voila one update script ready for pasting into the OLE DB command.

Mind you it doesn’t help when you then have almost 100 columns to map out :(

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