SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) is a mature, proven tool for ETL orchestration and data movement. In recent years, Python has exploded in popularity as a data movement and...
2025-09-01 (first published: 2025-08-11)
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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,...
2024-10-30 (first published: 2024-10-21)
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Most of us who work with data have, at least a few times, been presented with a challenge to explore and attempt to make sense of a poorly-defined set...
2024-10-01
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May 3rd represents a small but significant milestone in my career. It was 15 years ago today, on May 3, 2008, when I delivered my first public technical presentation....
2023-05-19 (first published: 2023-05-03)
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At the PASS Summit a few weeks ago, I had a great chat with some folks about our home office setups. More and more of us are working from...
2022-12-16 (first published: 2022-12-01)
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In just a couple of weeks, the PASS Summit will return to Seattle, Washington. This one will be extra special, since it’s going to be the first in-person Summit...
2022-10-31
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Creating useful reports is part art and part science. On one end of the spectrum, you have visually appealing and highly customized reports and dashboards that are truly works...
2022-04-13 (first published: 2022-03-31)
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I’ve been a fan of macabre fiction writer Stephen King since I first picked up The Dark Half sometime in the early 1990s. Since then I’ve read dozens of...
2022-03-20
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Today we have a guest editorial from Tim Mitchell. Tim talks about the impact of your posts online against the impression you make, or want to make, with potential employers.
2021-06-25 (first published: 2012-04-19)
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Let’s talk about your development environment. Specifically, I’d like to chat with you about the virtual space where your data architecture team, software developers, and information curators do their...
2021-06-07
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Welcome back, my fellow sleuths, to my mystery-inspired blog series! I’m having a ton...
By Steve Jones
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By Chris Yates
For decades, enterprises have thought about data like plumbers think about water: you build...
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