When naming transactions causes an error

For the last part of the series on transactions, I’m going to look at a problem that I ran across...

The Unconventional Guide to How to Implement Lookup Transformations TIP #124

This is one the articles in the series of step by step SSIS tutorial. In this post, we are going...

A Few Days Off in Space Country

The new Star Wars film opens today, and while I won’t see it then, perhaps I’ll get to it early...

Advent of Code

I ran across this site after reading a post from Jeremiah Peschka. It’s an interesting idea, and since I’m trying...

Advent of Code Contest

I saw the post from Steve Jones about the Advent of Code contest and decided to take a look. The first...

Monday Morning SQL Break – December 28, 2015

It’s Monday and time for this week’s blog and twitter round-up for last week. If you haven’t already, follow me...

One More PASS Board Update for 2015

Remember that post I wrote about taking on SQLSaturday events as my new PASS portfolio?

Never mind.*
Instead, it seems I’ll be...

Speaker of the Month: December 2015

The hardest presentations I’ve ever given in my life were not to large audiences or in big rooms. They weren’t...

Can we get a license for DDL Triggers?

There are several types of triggers.
Logon triggers – Fired when someone tries to connect to the instance.DML triggers – Fired after...

New Whitepaper – SQL Server Licensing Reduction

Poor storage performance continues to be the largest pain point with enterprise Database Administrators in today’s virtual world. However, it...