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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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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SharePoint lists are popular and simple tools for storing modestly-sized discrete sets of data. SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) includes a source component to allow reading data from SharePoint...
2021-01-15 (first published: 2021-01-09)
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The COVID-19 global pandemic was by far the biggest influencer of 2020. This virus has cost over 1.8 million lives worldwide, and has upended normal life and commerce for...
2021-01-12
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The COVID-19 global pandemic was by far the biggest influencer of 2020. This virus has cost over 1.8 million lives worldwide, and has upended normal life and commerce for...
2021-01-12
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SharePoint lists are popular and simple tools for storing modestly-sized discrete sets of data. SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) includes a source component to allow reading data from SharePoint...
2021-01-09
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I usually avoid talking about technology in absolutes, but here’s one that I can share without reservation: On a long enough timeline, every single ETL process will eventually fail....
2020-12-28 (first published: 2020-12-16)
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In this final post in my ETL Antipatterns series, I’ll talk about a common big-picture mistake when building ETL processes: ignoring the fundamental question, “why are we doing this?”...
2020-12-22
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In this final post in my ETL Antipatterns series, I’ll talk about a common big-picture mistake when building ETL processes: ignoring the fundamental question, “why are we doing this?”...
2020-12-22
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In my last ETL Antipatterns post, I wrote about the unexciting but very necessary work of documenting ETL processes. The logging of ETL operations is just as (un)captivating as...
2020-12-21
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By Steve Jones
For a number of years, we’ve produced the State of the Database Landscape report,...
By Steve Jones
I coach volleyball and I do a lot of stat stuff on paper. I...
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
Is there a good syllabus for reading these two together? (Yes, it's called the...
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In SQL Server 2025, if I want to remove an IP from a listener, what do I do?
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