SSIS Parameters
SSIS parameters help to ease the process of passing runtime values to SSIS packages. For values that can change over time, using parameters in SSIS is an ideal means...
2020-07-14 (first published: 2020-07-02)
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Blog Posts
T-SQL Tuesday #128: Learn From Others
Introduction This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is being hosted by Kerry Tyler. The subject is a recent mistake that was made and what was required to fix it. These don’t have to be SQL...
2020-07-14
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Daily Coping 13 Jul 2020
I’ve 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...
2020-07-13
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The Ironic DBA—My First Year as a DBA [Part 1]
Whoo! It’s been six months since my last post. There are reasons for this, none of which are probably valid, but it’s the way it is. I’ve been a...
2020-07-13 (first published: 2020-06-30)
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The SSIS Catalog: Install, Manage, Secure, and Monitor your Enterprise ETL Infrastructure
I’m happy to announce the publication of my latest book. The SSIS Catalog: Install, Manage, Secure, and Monitor your Enterprise ETL Infrastructure is now available on Amazon in both...
2020-07-13
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Using Docker Volumes for SQL Server in Linux
No, not that kind of volume! Over the past couple of blog posts, I have been talking about the versatility of deploying SQL Server with Docker. This combination is...
2020-07-13 (first published: 2020-07-03)
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Big Data Storage in Microsoft Azure
Azure storage is a Microsoft solution designed to store your data on it with different models (Blobs, Tables, Queue, File Shares, and Disks) to know the differences, usage, High...
2020-07-12
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Last Week Reading (2020-07-12)
Press Azure resource providers operations List of all of the available ADF-specific RBAC permissions. Simplifying declarative deployments in Azure The power of What-If within ARM Template deployments. Collecting custom...
2020-07-12
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Daily Coping 10 Jul 2020
I’ve 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...
2020-07-10
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Measuring Well Being
I need to write something more on this, but it struck me that this is something I wish previous employers had done, anonymously, and reported results back to others....
2020-07-10 (first published: 2020-06-29)
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Blogs
Questions and Answers from Running a Local LLM
By Steve Jones
I had a few random questions from my Running a Local LLM on Your...
Overview of Claude AI Models: Which One to Choose?
By Arun Sirpal
For those entering the AI space whether professionally or personally I wanted to give...
Houston AI-Lytics 2026–Powerpoint Slides
By Steve Jones
Thanks to everyone for attending my session on running a Local LLM. If you...
Forums
A question about how to store the address in the database
I have an app that has an address field on the customer and the...
SSIS package failing intermittently on last Excel Component
Good Afternoon, I have a Job which "fires" off an SSIS package (that is...
T-SQL in SQL Server 2025: JSON_ARRAYAGG
Comments posted to this topic are about the item T-SQL in SQL Server 2025:...
Question of the Day
Multiple Sequence Values
How do I easily get the next 12 sequence values from a sequence object?
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