Scripts to Detect Data Warehouse Issues
Standards and best practices are like flu shots you take before you're infected; Database best practices protect your databases from...
2013-01-15
559 reads
Sam Vanga
Scripts to Detect Data Warehouse Issues
Standards and best practices are like flu shots you take before you’re infected; Database best practices protect your databases from...
2013-01-15
498 reads
Every ebook from Apress for $15
Query Performance Tuning. Grant Fritchey. $15. If this doesn’t excite you, nothing will. Apress is offering every e-book for just $15...
2012-11-26
979 reads
PASS SQL Saturday World Map
I had the pleasure of helping Karla Landrum (@Karlakay22) for the PASS Summit 2012 by creating two dashboards: SQL Saturday...
2012-11-20
1,001 reads
PASS Summit 2012 Twitter Dashboard
As a business intelligence developer, my skills include taking the raw data, shaking it to remove all the junk, and...
2012-11-12
1,533 reads
Create Several Shell SSIS Packages In Minutes Using BIML
What do i mean by shell packages? You’re spot on – that’s an excellent question to begin with. For the purpose...
2012-10-22 (first published: 2012-10-16)
4,666 reads
I’m Not Attending #sqlpass Summit 2012 and I’m Sorry For Myself
I really wanted to attent PASS Summit this year, I’ve never attended before. I was preparing myself mentally since the...
2012-10-12
687 reads
Generate Uniqueidentifier with SSIS
If you are trying to generate Uniqueidentifier/Newid() in SSIS data flow, you will soon realize that there is no out-of-the-box...
2012-10-16 (first published: 2012-10-10)
11,471 reads
Book Review: SQL Server 2012 Integration Services Design Patterns
This book is written by Andy Leonard, Matt Masson, Tim Mitchell, Jessica Moss, and Michelle Ufford. These are all highly...
2012-09-14
2,777 reads
SCRIPT: Find the row count of all tables and views
Today I’m sharing another script that I often find useful – Queries to find the count of rows from tables and...
2012-08-15
14,816 reads
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Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
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I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI
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I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
Don’t Miss Out – SQL Server Query Tuning Fundamentals Starts Next Monday!
Next Monday, February 9, 2026, my one-day live online training SQL Server Query Tuning...
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Why the following cmds in sequence do not work
I need to delete rows from both the temporal main and history tables. The...
When SQL Server Central Went Down
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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('tim', 'tom')
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