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
13,034 reads
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
1,700 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
53,517 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
1,155 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
627 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
770 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
3,805 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
848 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
712 reads
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #203: Risk and Reward
By Steve Jones
This is timely, as I’m currently on a boat in the Adriatic taking a...
dataMinds Connect 2026 – Slides & Scripts
You can find the slides and SQL scripts for my session “Spice up your...
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later)
By SQLPals
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later) Updated...
Forums
Risk Vs Reward, The never ending ROI discussion.
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SSL/TLS Cert Validity Periods Decreasing
Hi, to all of you who are using CA certs on SQL Server boxes...
It's Never Just One Thing
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Question of the Day
Checking the Error Log III
If I want to run sp_readerrorlog on SQL Server 2025, what permissions do I need?
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