Find Your Missing SSIS Toolbox

Visual Studio and its business intelligence variant SQL Server Data Tools share a very powerful but extremely busy interface. If you happen to close out of one of the...

Merry Christmas - End of Year Round Up

Hello everybody Merry Christmas and welcome to the end of year round-up of all that's been going at gethynellis.com

Merry Christmas!

2019Its been another successful year here at gethynellis.com We have been...

SQLSaturday Orlando Notes – Owning Stuff

One of the choices you make as an organizer is whether to buy anything that you want use or give away at the end of the event. Owning nothing...

The Gift of the SPN

Every once in a while there is an extremely valuable tool that comes along. While the footprint and use frequency of this tool may not be that big, the...

Using Parameters in #SQLPrompt

I am a big fan of snippets in SQL Prompt, often using them in demos to quickly get code written. However, I’ve liked the idea of snippets and templates...

Better, faster, cheaper: SQL Server on Azure IaaS

GigaOm, an independent research firm that I highly respect, released a study today comparing performance and price between a SQL Server VM on Microsoft’s Azure platform and a SQL...

Book Review: T-SQL Window Functions by Itzik Ben-Gan

A couple of years back Itzik Ben-Gan (the T-SQL guru) wrote the book Microsoft SQL Server 2012 High-Performance T-SQL Using Window Functions. It’s has been one of my most...

Cloudbrew 2019 – Slides

Cloudbrew 2019 is over and it was a great event. Great speakers and a big audience. Even in my session there were a lot of attendees, which I found...

Cloudbrew 2019 – Slides

Cloudbrew 2019 is over and it was a great event. Great speakers and a big audience. Even in my session there were a lot of attendees, which I found...

New Power BI Report Design Pre-Con in 2020

I’m excited to announce that I will be offering a full-day pre-con about Power BI report design in the coming year called Bookmarks, brain pixels, and bar charts: creating...