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Upgrade and Migrate SSIS Catalog and SSISDB to a New Server

There will come as time when you need to upgrade the host operating system and SQL Server to a newer version. If you are using SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), one of the things you may need to do is to move the SSIS catalog (SSISDB database) to the new server. We will cover the steps in this tutorial to migrate the SSISDB from one server to another.

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2025-02-21

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Fun with PowerShell Asynchronous

Imagine a candle that is lit and takes 1 hour to burn out. Now imagine one hundred candles. How many hours will it last? That depends. If they are lit simultaneously, it will take 1 hour. That is the basic idea of running in the background or asynchronously. Of course, the 100 candles can execute independently of one another, unlike if you try to run 100 processes on a computer with 2 cores. PowerShell has some ways to manage that, as PowerShell job – which we will see in this article – runspaces – needs to add programmable using .net.

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2025-02-14

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Dark Mode in SSMS 21 and overall first impressions

Let me cut to the chase. If you are like me, you may have been searching for: How to turn on Dark Mode in SSMS V21. Searching for that very thing today inspired me to write this blog to help others do the same thing because I couldn’t seem to find an easy answer.

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2025-02-10

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Deprecated Feature Tracking

From T-SQL, without requiring an XEvent session, can I tell which deprecated features are being used on my instance?

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