Microsoft's SQL Server software, used in thousands of businesses ranging from storefront operations to multinational companies, has capabilities to bulk-insert Comma Separated Value files into a ...

SQL Server datatypes are not always what they seem to be. Martin Schmidt recently had an interesting blog post (in danish) regarding implicit decimal conversion that sparked my interest. Let me sketch ...

Create a test schema with 20 fields each decimal(15,6) Create new c# console app with .net 4.6.1; Scaffold ef; Insert 1 record with decimal values (confirm that this works correctly) Insert 2 records ...

When you define a column in MS SQL server as either decimal or numeric ... The column MyDecimalColumn is defined with a data type of decimal, a precision of 5, and a scale of 2.

Here are the basic steps to automate an FTP download in Windows followed by a CSV insert into MS SQL Server. FTP Download Step one is to fetch the latest data from another server via FTP.