Task Factory's: Terminator Destination
Task Factory is a software product created by Pragmatic Works. It provides many custom SSIS components which help developers creating...
2011-09-03
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Blog Posts
Don’t Be This Guy
Note: This post was originally posted on October 29, 2009. In the interest of the upcoming conference season, I’m republishing...
2011-09-02
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Don’t Be This Guy
Note: This post was originally posted on October 29, 2009. In the interest of the upcoming conference season, I’m republishing...
2011-09-02
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Moving the SQL replication snapshot folder
I recently addressed an issue where a client server's data volume was getting dangerously tight on free space. It contained...
2011-09-02
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Parking Places & Editorials
Parking places, that’s the topic of my recent editorial on SSC. A simple topic, but one that most of us...
2011-09-02
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Plucking Wallflowers
Wallflowers Bloom
My friend Tim Mitchell wrote an awesome personal account a while back and shared it again recently. It’s a...
2011-09-02
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Pragmatic Works Foundation Class Oct 2011
I am super excited to announce that there is a strong demand for the Foundation Training to be held more...
2011-09-02
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Preventing projects from deploying when debugging a SSIS package
This is a quick tip to help quickly solve a problem I run into sometimes, and now that I am...
2011-09-02
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Re-blog – August 26-September 1
As I mentioned in the introductory post, I’m summarizing posts from previous years in the the past week. Some posts...
2011-09-02
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SQL Server test data generation testing tools
Question: How do I generate test data for SQL Server ? I don’t want to buy a benchmarking tool, but I...
2011-09-02
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Blogs
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI
By Steve Jones
I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
Forums
Optimism Without Illusion or Why AI Needs Blunt Technologists
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Optimism Without Illusion or Why...
SSIS with VS2022 64/32 issue with Excel files
Hi all, I'm trying to do classic scenario for loading multiple Excel files into...
Case part is sloooooow
Hi So the case statement is slowing this down - but for the life...
Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
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