31 Days of SSIS – One Package, Unlimited Tables (25/31)
31 Days of SSIS
One day at a time and we have reached the twenty-fifth post in the 31 Days of...
2011-01-26
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Blog Posts
A SQL Azure Customer
Not me, though I’m not necessarily against Azure in principle. I had a friend ask me for a SQL Server...
2011-01-26
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Immersion in Internals
Paul Randal (Blog | Twitter) and Kimberly Tripp (Blog | Twitter) of SQLSkills are hosting an Immersions training event in Dallas. This is not run of the mill training, but it...
2011-01-26
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Immersion in Internals
Paul Randal (Blog | Twitter) and Kimberly Tripp (Blog | Twitter) of SQLSkills are hosting an Immersions training event in Dallas. This is not...
2011-01-26
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Presenting on #SSIS to EDMPASS Today
Will you be in Edmonton today? How about near a computer connected to the inter-tubes? If so, you might be...
2011-01-26
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Shameless Plug: My First SSC Article Published Today
Please forgive the shameless plug. My first article was published today on sqlservercentral.com. It’s titled “Backup and Housekeeping with Maintenance...
2011-01-26
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SQL Saturday #71: Call For Speakers
The SQL Saturday #71/New England Data Camp #3 call for speakers has been open for quite a while. But, we...
2011-01-26
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SQLSaturday 57 In Houston, Here I Come!
Another year and staring it off right! I’ll be speaking at SQLSaturday in Houston, TX on the fundamentals of storage...
2011-01-26
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User Group Giveaway: My Latest Book
As I annouced earlier, Oracle and database expert, Bert Scalzo and I collaborated on an introductory text appropriately titled Introduction to SQL...
2011-01-26
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#SQLRally is coming, Go vote!
We are in the final stages of selecting the speakers for the SQLRally May 11th through the 13th in sunny...
2011-01-25
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Blogs
Narrow Task Decomposition in AI Pipeline Agents
A nightly load into sales_fact fails. Ask an orchestrating agent to break down the...
Car Update: August 2026
By Steve Jones
It’s been some time since I provided a car update, so I decided to...
Microsoft Fabric OneLake Shortcuts: When to Use Them and When Not To
By James Serra
An architecture scenario Imagine separate Sales, Finance, Shared Data, and Executive Analytics workspaces. Sales...
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Backing Up a DMK
In SQL Server 2025, I have a database with a Database Masker Key (DMK). I want to back up this key and keep a copy offline. When do I have to open this key before running the backup?
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