SQL Server Training–New York New York!
For those that read my blog regularly you will know that I over the last couple of years I have...
2012-12-13
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Blog Posts
Logins vs Users
Logins are not Users. It’s a pretty easy concept but one that seems to give a lot of people problems....
2012-12-12 (first published: 2012-12-03)
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PASSMN–Passing the Baton: A Board Transition Story
Each year the Minnesota SQL Server User Group elects new board members and resets its leadership team. I have been...
2012-12-12
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The Great DBA Getaway
Free, at last!
It’s holiday season which means it’s a time for you all to buy me gifts super busy time for Data...
2012-12-12
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The Surface Meta-App
Just a quick little blog post about one more app you’re going to want to track down for your Surface....
2012-12-12
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Working with Excel Destinations in SSIS - 0xC0202025, 0x80040E21
Working with Excel in SSIS is not fun and something I whole-heartedly discourage. With that said, I had a not...
2012-12-12
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Can I use SSDT for the 2008 BI stack?
SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) that was released with SQL Server 2012 obviously works with the BI stack (SSIS/SSAS/SSRS) for...
2012-12-11
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Database Snapshots – A view of database at a specific point in time
Beginning with SQL Server 2005, Microsoft introduced a new feature called database snaphots, which gives DBAs a way of presenting...
2012-12-11
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Does my SQL Server database use any Edition specific features?
Today, I received a phone call from a friend who is thinking to downgrade the database hosted in SQL Server...
2012-12-11
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Let’s Talk About Joins
T-SQL Tuesday #37 This month please join us in the TSQL blog party that happens on the second tuesday of the month. It is hosted this month by Sebastian Meine (@sqlity)....
2012-12-11
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Blogs
A New Word: los vidados
By Steve Jones
los vidados – n. the half-remembered acquaintances you knew years ago, who you might...
In-Person CISA Training – April 13-16, 2026
By Brian Kelley
I will be leading an in-person Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) exam prep class...
EightKB 2026
EightKB is back again for 2026! The biggest online SQL Server internals conference is...
Forums
query to track time spent on individual tasks in SSIS
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SQL Server Transactional Replication from Always On Availability Groups to Azure SQL Database
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Hidden Heroes
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences I
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which are explicitly linked to increment a number in a table when a new row is added?
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