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
686 reads
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
1,541 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
34,722 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
681 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
584 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
652 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
682 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
20,747 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
1,489 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
14,314 reads
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #204 – Are blogs still relevant?
By DesertDBA
Note: This post is the invitation for T-SQL Tuesday #204 on November 3rd, 2026....
A Front Door for the DBA Team – AgentDBA UI
By Arun Sirpal
AgentDBA began as a command line. That suits one DBA on one server, but...
Cleaning Up Azure MS Defender Billing
By Steve Jones
I have a few Azure subscriptions, which are fairly small and not used that...
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