Parallelizing Slow Parts of the Data Flow - Part 1 - Preparation
It's quite common to have parts of your Data Flow that are slow, and there are some techniques you can use to improve performance of those parts. One of...
2011-09-06
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Parallelizing Slow Parts of the Data Flow - Part 1 - Preparation
It's quite common to have parts of your Data Flow that are slow, and there are some techniques you can use to improve performance of those parts. One of...
2011-09-06
6 reads
Inserting Records AND Getting The Identity in SSIS - Part 2
Since I posted a ways back on retrieving the identity value for inserts in SQL Server Integration Services, I've learned many things...
2011-08-29
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Inserting Records AND Getting The Identity in SSIS - Part 2
Since I posted a ways back on retrieving the identity value for inserts in SQL Server Integration Services, I've learned many things - one of which is an inline solution for...
2011-08-29
1,100 reads
Inserting Records AND Getting The Identity in SSIS - Part 2
Since I posted a ways back on retrieving the identity value for inserts in SQL Server Integration Services, I've learned many things - one of which is an inline solution for...
2011-08-29
58 reads
Presenting Upserts to PASS AppDev VC
Hopefully this crowd knows a little about what they're getting into! John Jakubowski (blog|twitter) has graciously asked me to present...
2011-07-18
1,142 reads
Presenting Upserts to PASS AppDev VC
Hopefully this crowd knows a little about what they're getting into! John Jakubowski (blog|twitter) has graciously asked me to present on upsert strategies with SSIS. What are "upserts"? A...
2011-07-18
6 reads
Presenting Upserts to PASS AppDev VC
Hopefully this crowd knows a little about what they're getting into! John Jakubowski (blog|twitter) has graciously asked me to present on upsert strategies with SSIS. What are "upserts"? A...
2011-07-18
14 reads
What is Pipeline Backpressure?
First - I'll get the "what's a pipeline got to do with Integration Services" question out of the way. The "pipeline"...
2011-07-07
3,448 reads
What is Pipeline Backpressure?
First - I'll get the "what's a pipeline got to do with Integration Services" question out of the way. The "pipeline" I'm referring to here is the word commonly...
2011-07-07
32 reads
Blogs
Claude finds two cryptographic weaknesses (but the sky isn’t falling)
By Brian Kelley
If you haven't seen the announcement, Anthropic was able to utilize Claude (Mythos Preview)...
Generate Embeddings in SQL with Aurora and Bedrock
Most embedding pipelines on AWS have the same shape: a job reads rows out...
Resolving SQL Server Transaction Log Issues Efficiently
By Arun Sirpal
Transaction log issues are one of the quietest ways a healthy database turns into...
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Question of the Day
Symmetric Key Encryption
If I run this statement in SQL Server 2025, how is the password encrypted?
CREATE SYMMETRIC KEY MySymmetricKey WITH ALGORITHM = AES_256, KEY_SOURCE = 'My secret key source passphrase', IDENTITY_VALUE = 'My secret identity value' ENCRYPTION BY PASSWORD = 'S&perS#cretP@ssword7'; GOSee possible answers