SSIS and Data Quality Webcast
On Thursday the 2nd of May, I’ll be giving a webcast for MSSQLTips.com about data quality and SSIS. The abstract: SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) has been around for...
2019-04-10
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Koen Verbeeck
Speaking at Techorama 2019
I’m delighted to announce I’ll be giving a talk at Techorama 2019. It’s one of the best events I’ve ever been to and I’ll be in the good company...
2019-03-04
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Cool Stuff in Snowflake – Part 7: Creating Tables
I’m doing a little series on some of the nice features/capabilities in Snowflake (the cloud data warehouse). In each part, I’ll highlight something that I think it’s interesting enough...
2019-02-26
92 reads
Webinar: Migrating SQL Server Integration Services to the Cloud
I will be doing a webinar for MSSQLTips.com about migrating your on-premises SSIS solutions to the Azure cloud. Specifically, the Azure-SSIS integration runtime environment in Azure Data Facture. The...
2019-02-21
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Cool Stuff in Snowflake – Part 6: Query History
I’m doing a little series on some of the nice features/capabilities in Snowflake (the cloud data warehouse). In each part, I’ll highlight something that I think it’s interesting enough to share....
2019-02-14
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Cool Stuff in Snowflake – Part 5: Finding Previous Non Null Value
I’m doing a little series on some of the nice features/capabilities in Snowflake (the cloud data warehouse). In each part, I’ll highlight something that I think it’s interesting enough to share....
2019-02-04
66 reads
Cool Stuff in Snowflake – Part 4: Aliasing all the things
I’m doing a little series on some of the nice features/capabilities in Snowflake (the cloud data warehouse). In each part, I’ll highlight something that I think it’s interesting enough to share....
2019-01-28
704 reads
Cool Stuff in Snowflake – Part 3: SPLIT and FLATTEN
I’m doing a little series on some of the nice features/capabilities in Snowflake (the cloud data warehouse). In each part, I’ll highlight something that I think it’s interesting enough...
2019-01-17
77 reads
Cool Stuff in Snowflake – Part 2: LISTAGG
I’m starting a little series on some of the nice features/capabilities in Snowflake (the cloud data warehouse). In each part, I’ll highlight something that I think it’s interesting enough to share....
2019-01-11
176 reads
Speaking at DataGrillen 2019
I’m delighted to announce I’m selected to speak at the 2019 edition of SQLGrillen DataGrillen. This is a German conference with the catchy tagline “Data, beer und Bratwurst”. I...
2019-01-03
7 reads
Blogs
Upgrading SQL Server Containers on the Laptop
By Steve Jones
I don’t have SQL Server installed on my laptop. In an effort to keep...
How to Find Expensive Queries in Amazon Redshift
Slow-running queries can degrade your Redshift cluster’s performance and lead to increased costs. Identifying...
The Notification Trap: How Input Fatigue Is Killing Deep Work in Tech
By gbargsley
If you've been here before, you know this blog is usually about SQL Server,...
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How Long is a Long I/O?
In SQL Server 2025, a long I/O is recorded in the error log with message 833. How long much an I/O request be outstanding before this message is written to the log?
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