New SSIS Book to be Released
If you've noticed a significant drop in my blogging I apoligize but I've been working on an exciting project with...
2009-04-06
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Devin Knight
SQL Agent Job failure with FTP connection
There are hundreds of post on this topic but I just ran into this problem recently so I thought I...
2009-03-04
1,530 reads
Cube Processing Error HY008
If you've ever had this error "OLE DB error: OLE DB or ODBC error: Operation canceled; HY008." appear while processing...
2009-03-02
34,643 reads
PASS BI SIG
Yesterday I participated in my first BI SIG live meeting. This special interest group is led by Amy Lewis who...
2009-01-15
671 reads
Thanks to PASS - Free Laptop
It seems like the benefits of being involved in PASS just never stopped. If you didn’t see the PASS newsletter...
2009-01-15
575 reads
Windows 7 Beta Delayed
Looks like the Windows 7 beta download has been delayed while Microsoft adds additional infrastructure support. A little disappointing but I...
2009-01-09
629 reads
Windows 7 Beta Release Friday
Tomorrow Microsoft will make Windows 7 beta available for download. I’m a little skeptical but I think just about anyone...
2009-01-08
671 reads
SSIS – CHECKSUM Transformation
CHECKSUM is a TSQL function that computes a hash value over a list of arguments. The great thing about creating...
2009-01-05
20,731 reads
Review of Seadragon: Microsoft’s iPhone application
So I’ve spent the last couple of weeks playing around with the Seadragon application and have come to some conclusions.
Usefullness...
2008-12-29
1,477 reads
SSIS – Avoid OLE DB Command
I decided to do a little performance testing on some common SSIS “Tricks” that increase speed and effectiveness of SSIS...
2008-12-29
14,304 reads
Blogs
Flyway Tips: AI Generating Migration Script Names
By Steve Jones
AI is a big deal in 2026, and at Redgate, we’re experimenting with how...
The Book of Redgate: Get the right stuff done
By Steve Jones
Another of our values: The facing page has this quote: “We admire people who...
Runing tSQLt Tests with Claude
By Ed Elliott
Running tSQLt unit tests is great from Visual Studio but my development workflow...
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Introduction of OPTIMIZE_FOR_SEQUENTIAL_KEY = ON
Hi, We have low latency high volume system. I have a table having 3...
The Long Name
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Question of the Day
The Long Name
I run this code to create a table:
When I check the length, I get these results:
A table name is limited to 128 characters. How does this work?