Workspace database server was not found
You might constantly see a warning message that appears like the one below when creating Analysis Services Tabular projects. It...
2012-05-08
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Samuel Vanga
How to execute a package from another package?
I hear you. You’ll use the Execute Package Task. This mechanism of executing one package from another is popularly knows...
2012-05-01
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Change Package Properties Using Parameters–SSIS 2012
In DTS, changing package properties was close to impossible (the less we talk about DTS, the better). Package configurations introduced...
2012-04-24
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Do You Know These Free Events?
I frequently attend a few online training events that greatly help me learn new things. Thought I would share, if may...
2012-04-23
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Why Isn’t There A Deployment Server Edition For SSIS Projects?
Andy Leonard blogged about a gotcha when creating SSIS projects using SSDT yesterday. He showed that you can use any...
2012-04-19
1,510 reads
Execute T-SQL Statement Task
I spotted a new task in SSIS 2012 – Execute T-SQL Statement Task. It executes T-SQL statements, only Transact-SQL statements against...
2012-04-17
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Simple Tips To Speed Up Your SSIS Data Flow
There are a few design choices that can make your SSIS packages run super fast when loading data from table...
2012-04-10
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SQL Roundup – 03/16-2012
Howdy! I was flying last week, and for the first time i sat facing a flight attendant. You don’t actually...
2012-03-16
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Distinct Count in Analysis Services
Business users are often interested in finding distinct counts in addition to other aggregations. They may want to know the...
2012-03-14
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SQL Roundup – 03/09/2012
Welcome to another week of SQL Roundup. Just in case you missed, SQL Server 2012 was released this week and...
2012-03-09
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Blogs
Why I stopped using MCP for AI coding stuff
By HeyMo0sh
Something has shifted quietly in 2026. The developers I know/respect—the ones actually shipping, not...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 5: Notebooks, Hugging face models and Fine Tuning
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Continuing from Day 4 where we learned Encoder, Decoder, and Attention Mechanism, today we...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 4: Transformers – Encoder, Decoder, and Attention
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Continuing from Day 3 where we covered LLM models open/closed and their parameters, Today...
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String Similarity II
What is the range for the result from the EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY() function in SQL Server 2025?
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