Moron's Guide to SSIS : Episode 2 - Introduction to the Dataflow
Today Pragmatic Works release it’s second comedic training video featuring Dustin Ryan as “Dustin” and Brian Knight as “Gary” Dustin’s...
2009-06-19
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Devin Knight
Enabling Checkpoints in your SSIS Packages
Checkpoints are a great tool in SSIS that many developers go years without even experimenting with. I hope to enlighten...
2009-06-18
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Better Know A SSIS Transform – The Pivot Transform
This is part 1 of my 29 part series called Better Know A SSIS Transform. Hopefully you will find the...
2009-06-15
1,695 reads
Answers to Advanced SSIS Interview Questions
Last week I wrote a set of Advanced SSIS Interview Questions. Here are the answers I came up for these. ...
2009-06-12
53,049 reads
SQL Saturday Pensacola
I just returned from another great SQL Saturday event today. Rodney Landrum and Karla Remail put together a great event...
2009-06-06
1,153 reads
Moron's Guide to SSIS : Episode 1 - Introduction to the Environment
Today Pragmatic Works release it’s first comedic training video featuring Dustin Ryan as “Dustin” and Brian Knight as “Gary” Dustin’s boss. ...
2009-06-04
622 reads
SQL Saturday 14 Pensacola
I will be speaking this Saturday at the SQL Saturday in Pensacola. The topic will be SSIS Best Practices and Performance Tuning. ...
2009-06-04
767 reads
Advanced SSIS Interview Questions
I wrote a blog about a year ago that gave some tips on basic interview questions that you may run...
2009-06-04
3,797 reads
First Foundation Class Review
The first Pragmatic Works Foundation class concluded today and I think it was a great success! Each student did very...
2009-04-17
842 reads
Pragmatic Works Foundation Class
This week I've been extremely busy working on the new Pragmatic Works Foundation class, which is the brainchild of Brian...
2009-04-15
707 reads
Blogs
Moving On-Prem PostgreSQL to the Cloud: Picking the Right Path for Big Tables
Every PostgreSQL migration eventually hits the same fork in the road. The database is...
A Spread of Vacation
By Steve Jones
I’m off on vacation today. Which is a little weird as I just got...
How AgentDBA Identifies Backup Failures
By Arun Sirpal
Every DBA has a box like this. Sitting untouched for months. Nobody’s proud of...
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