SSIS Catalog Execution Parameter Values
When doing any new development or major overhaul of existing SSIS architecture, I almost always recommend to clients that they deploy those packages to the SSIS catalog. Using the...
2018-12-18
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Blog Posts
Top 50 PowerShell bloggers of 2018
My work is recognized and my blog is listed under Top 30 elite list. I am pleased, honored and humbled...
2018-12-18
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T-SQL Tuesday 109: Influence Somebody Recap
How have you impacted somebody in the community?
This month I am in charge of the topic for TSQLTuesday. The invite...
2018-12-18
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T-SQL Tuesday 109: Influence Somebody Recap
Small tokens of gratitude and small actions help to build this wonderful SQL Community that gives and gives and gives. Humility leads us to seek out ways to give...
2018-12-18
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Visualizing Merge Join Internals And Understanding Their Implications
This post is part 2 in a series about physical join operators (be sure to check out part 1 - nested loops joins, and part 3 - hash match...
2018-12-18
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Visualizing Merge Join Internals And Understanding Their Implications
This post is part 2 in a series about physical join operators (be sure to check out part 1 - nested loops joins, and part 3 - hash match...
2018-12-18
22 reads
Adding the Constraint Name to the PK at the End of Create Table–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...
2018-12-17 (first published: 2018-11-28)
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Azure Data Factory Data Flow
Azure Data Factory v2 (ADF) has a new feature in public preview called Data Flow. I have usually described ADF...
2018-12-17
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Azure Data Factory Data Flow
Azure Data Factory v2 (ADF) has a new feature in public preview called Data Flow. I have usually described ADF as an orchestration tool instead of an Extract-Transform-Load (ETL)...
2018-12-17
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Azure SQL Database DTU Versus vCore
I wrote a guest article for an IT consultancy on Azure SQL Database, more specifically DTUs and vCore options. At...
2018-12-17
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Blogs
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI
By Steve Jones
I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
Forums
Optimism Without Illusion or Why AI Needs Blunt Technologists
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Optimism Without Illusion or Why...
SSIS with VS2022 64/32 issue with Excel files
Hi all, I'm trying to do classic scenario for loading multiple Excel files into...
Case part is sloooooow
Hi So the case statement is slowing this down - but for the life...
Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
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