Quick Tip: SSIS and SAP BW Round 2
Again, frustration.
After almost breaking my arm patting myself on the back getting past my last SAP BW issue I found that...
2012-11-19
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Blog Posts
Restoring a SQL Server 2005 Full-Text Catalog to SQL Server 2012
Upgrading fulltext data from a SQL Server 2005 database to SQL Server 2012 is to restore a full database backup...
2012-11-19
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Rules of Holes #5: Seek Help to Get Out of the Hole
You are moving along, doing good work, maintaining a steady pace. All seems to be going well for you. Then...
2012-11-19
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Rules of Holes #5: Seek Help to Get Out of the Hole
You are moving along, doing good work, maintaining a steady pace. All seems to be going well for you. Then BAM!, a Hole just grabbed you. How the heck...
2012-11-19
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Rules of Holes #5: Seek Help to Get Out of the Hole
You are moving along, doing good work, maintaining a steady pace. All seems to be going well for you. Then BAM!, a Hole just grabbed you. How the heck...
2012-11-19
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SQL Availability Groups VM Sandbox Step By Step
In this post I am going to walk you through creating a virtual environment from the ground up to play...
2012-11-19
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Surface: Standard Onscreen Keyboard
If you feel that the default on-screen keyboard on the Surface RT isn't sufficient, you can enable what I would...
2012-11-19
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Time Pass With Transaction Log - Part 3 fn_dblog
As part of this Transaction Log Internals series, In this article we are going to observe the use of fn_dblog and some of its important...
2012-11-19
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Tools of the Trade
I needed to upgrade my tools. It was not a matter of “want” but of “need”. It’s no longer enough to have just the bare...
2012-11-19
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Top 5 SQL Server 2008 DBA Books
I’m often asked about what books I would recommend for learning more about SQL Server 2008 and I always respond...
2012-11-19
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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
Hi everyone I am looking at building a query to determine how much time...
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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