The SSDT Evolution
When you are developing for the Microsoft Business Intelligence stack, you always needed Visual Studio for your business intelligence (SSIS,...
2015-09-10
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Koen Verbeeck
Webinar – SSIS Best Practices and Tuning Tips
I’ll be giving an SSIS webinar for MSSQLTips.com on Tuesday 15th September 2015.
The title is SQL Server Integration Services Best...
2015-09-14 (first published: 2015-09-08)
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Report Builder Changes in SQL Server 2016
As a lot of features, Report Builder will improve as well in SQL Server 2016. At the moment of writing CTP 2.3...
2015-09-07
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SSIS – Unexpected Termination
I was toying around with the new SQL Server 2016 CTP release and I wanted to run a few SSIS packages...
2015-09-03
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Nominated for Author of the Year 2015
I have the great pleasure to announce that I have been nominated for the “Author of the Year 2015” award...
2015-09-02
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SQL 2016 CTP 2.3 has been released
A new monthly release of the SQL Server 2016 preview has been released: CTP 2.3.
You can find the download here (the...
2015-09-01
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Reblog: Force installation of 64-bit ACE OLE DB provider
Anyone working with SSIS and Excel probably had the following issue: you are creating an SSIS package using an Excel...
2015-08-27
756 reads
Reblog: How I prepared myself for the MCSE certification
SQLKover update: this was one of the most popular posts on my old blog. It’s quite old now and SQL...
2015-08-20
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Nesting Aggregates with Window Functions
Recenty I was writing an article for MSSQLTips where I had to create a treemap (it will be published soon)....
2015-08-26 (first published: 2015-08-18)
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Reblog: Slow source? Make your data flow buffers smaller!
Whoa whoah. Aren’t you supposed to increase your data flow buffer size in order to speed up your packages? If...
2015-08-13
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Blogs
The Book of Redgate: SQL Server Central
By Steve Jones
It was neat to stumble on this in the book, a piece by me,...
Git forked
Forgive me for the title. Mentally I’m 12. When I started my current day...
Setting FK Constraints in Data Modeler
By Steve Jones
One of the things a customer asked recently about Redgate Data Modeler was how...
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The String Distance I
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Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
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