Post 100 – A Year Gone (not quite)!
I wasn’t going to make a special effort for the one hundredth post on my blog, I was intending to...
2010-11-05
778 reads
Blog Posts
SQLBIGeek’s Function Friday – Return Last Date of the Prior Month
Brian K. McDonald
SQLBIGeek
Twitter: @briankmcdonald
Welcome to the fourth post of my “SQLBIGeek’s Function Friday” blog series. In this series, I am...
2010-11-05
582 reads
SQLSaturday#59 - Reflection on the Speaker Interview Series...
No speaker interview today, (didn't have time to format it today), just some reflection on the Speaker Interview Series, thus...
2010-11-05
656 reads
SSIS: Using a Script Component as a substitute OLEDB Destination
I developed an SSIS package that loads invoices, statements, pro-formas, etc. into a SQL Server table. The invoices are .pdf files and the business required that no identical documents...
2010-11-05
16 reads
SSIS: Using a Script Component as a substitute OLEDB Destination
I developed an SSIS package that loads invoices, statements, pro-formas,
etc. into a SQL Server table. The invoices are .pdf files and the business
required that no identical documents...
2010-11-05
223 reads
SSIS: Using a Script Component as a substitute OLEDB Destination
I developed an SSIS package that loads invoices, statements, pro-formas, etc. into a SQL Server table. The invoices are .pdf...
2010-11-05
634 reads
Successful Teams: Capable Backups
No, not backups as in SQL Server backups, but who to tag when someone is out or so slammed with...
2010-11-05
2,096 reads
The Tapestry
When I run on the treadmill, I have a TV and DVD player down there and have been watching Star...
2010-11-05
484 reads
An Invitation To Come To My PASS Summit Session On Blogging And Speaking
On Wednesday morning at 10:15 AM during the 2010 PASS Summit next week I'm presenting "Getting Started In Blogging And...
2010-11-04
704 reads
Ascending Mount BI Stack: Basecamp
Not quite Mount Doom but...
As some of you may know, I’ve recently transitioned over from the fabulous life of being...
2010-11-04
604 reads
Blogs
How to Find Expensive Queries in Amazon Redshift
Slow-running queries can degrade your Redshift cluster’s performance and lead to increased costs. Identifying...
The Notification Trap: How Input Fatigue Is Killing Deep Work in Tech
By gbargsley
If you've been here before, you know this blog is usually about SQL Server,...
Designing a Storage Load Test for SQL Server
I’ve been doing storage load tests for SQL Server for a long time, both...
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How Long is a Long I/O?
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