Using SSIS is a great way to perform ETL operations and bulk load or process data coming from multiple databases, especially if various database vendors are involved. However, setting up a full SSIS package just to do a quick query, import, or join is cumbersome and time consuming. Thankfully, setting up a Linked Server in …

Recently I was working on a project involving MySQL and needed to partition and rank results in a SELECT statement. This is a pretty straightforward approach in SQL Server using ROW_NUMBER() or RANK(). In my particular case I needed functionality equivalent to ROW_NUMBER() with partitioning by a single column and sorting by another. Below is …