Write It Down!

Recently I set up a new process to pull data out of a MySQL database and into SQL Server. Pretty standard ETL stuff, but it’s the organization’s first time...

Daily Coping 15 Oct 2020

I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...

Recording Sessions for the Virtual Summit

A week ago the SQL Bits conference took place in London, sort of. The event was virtual, but it was held during the London timezone, which makes sense as...

Setup Multi Subnet Virtual Router - Part 7

Spoooky SQL at the Baton Rouge SQL/.NET Campfire Stories!

Enjoyed the heck out of tonight's October special edition of the virtual Baton Rouge .NET and SQL User Groups meeting, where we had a lot of active chat, three...

A more considered approach to email signatures

This — like last week’s post — is not about SQL Server or Azure SQL Database. In a way, it hearkens back to a post I wrote a few years...

Azure Databricks – The Notebook

Data engineers, pipe line developers, general data enthusiasts will be spending most of their time within a notebook. Here you develop your code, nice visualisations and commentary boxes are...

Daily Coping 14 Oct 2020

I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...

Exporting Environment Variables out of the SSIS Catalog

Sometimes when you’ve created a SSIS catalog, along with folders, environments and environment variables, you want this content on another server. Unfortunately, you can only script out these objects...

Getting Your Employer to Pay for the PASS Summit

It’s just over 30 days to the 2020 PASS Summit and that is plenty of time to get the boss to say yes, but you have to ask! I...