Reblog: SSIS Performance Testing
I had to do some performance testing for an MSSQLTips article and I thought I’d share the framework I used in...
2016-02-19 (first published: 2016-02-12)
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I had to do some performance testing for an MSSQLTips article and I thought I’d share the framework I used in...
2016-02-19 (first published: 2016-02-12)
1,723 reads
One of the smaller announcements amidst the gazillion new features of SQL Server 2016, is that SSMS is now a...
2016-02-03
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A few weeks back, the folks at Apress Publishing sent me a copy of the book Expert Performance Indexing in...
2016-02-11 (first published: 2016-02-02)
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SQLKover update: For some reason, this was my most popular blog post on the old LTD site. Over 110,000 views. People...
2016-01-28
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Here is an overview of the articles I published in the final quarter of 2015:
Integrated Logging with the Integration Services Package...
2016-01-22
492 reads
Recently I got my hands on a copy of Extending SSIS with .NET Scripting, written by SQL Server MVP Joost...
2016-01-29 (first published: 2016-01-21)
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It’s the second Tuesday of the month and you know what that means! T-SQL Tuesday time! If you don’t know...
2016-01-20 (first published: 2016-01-12)
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It’s the time of the year again: the obligatory “how was the past year” blog post, combined with “what do...
2015-12-29
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Just a small blog post about how I used sp_BlitzIndex for the first and how awesome that was. sp_BlitzIndex is one...
2015-12-10 (first published: 2015-12-07)
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Installing and configuring SQL Server Master Data Services (MDS) is like a box of chocolates: you never know what you’re...
2015-12-01 (first published: 2015-11-24)
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By Steve Jones
I was listening to the radio the other day and the hosts were discussing...
By Steve Jones
We’re a week late, once again my fault. I was still coming out of...
By Steve Jones
I ran across this article recently (https://www.gatesnotes.com/meet-bill/source-code/reader/microsoft-original-source-code) and it has a great opening piece...
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I have this table in my SQL Server 2022 database:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[CityList] ( [CityNameID] [int] NOT NULL IDENTITY(1, 1), [CityName] [varchar] (30) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL ) ON [PRIMARY] GOI decide to add two new columns for the StateProvince and Country. What code should I use? See possible answers