Automating Salesforce Data Imports with Powershell
ℹ️ Update
This post is quite old and a lot has changed: instead of automating Data Loader, have a look at automating data imports using Salesforce CLI with Powershell
Save DataTable to SQL Server
A couple of times now, I've needed to save in-memory ADO.NET DataTables straight to SQL Server as new tables. Its handy sometimes, if you're importing data from other sources. Nick Tompson had posted some code on the social.msdn forum to do this, and here I've stripped out the features I didn't need and adapted it to use StringBuilders:
SQL 2005 Cyclical Forwarding
Just a quick one about a SQL 2005 message that I found; I've also found quite a few unanswered questions about it on other forums so thought it might be worth posting here.
Sql 2000 Concatenation Trick
Last year I worked at a client site writing imports into the database for an Ascent CRM system. The import process was being implemented using Sql 2000 stored procedures. After getting used to a C# environment with source control and unit testing, working entirely in T-SQL was like going back to the 1970s. Still, the client had their reasons; although the job could have been done in C#, the charity in question figured that T-SQL would be cheaper to maintain in the long run, with programmers easier and cheaper to find.