SQL Saturday US Map
Apparently, SQL Saturday isn’t popular in the west. See for yourself. I wanted to see what cities frequently host SQL...
2012-08-03
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Sam Vanga
SCRIPT: Basic Information About Indexes
I’m having a little fun with documenting basic information about indexes in my current project. I’m posting the scripts here...
2012-07-31
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Parallel Execution in SSIS with MaxConcurrentExecutables
MaxConcurrentExecutables, a package level property in SSIS determines the number of control flow items that can be executed in parallel....
2012-07-20
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Generating Surrogate Keys With SSIS
A surrogate key is an auto generated value, usually integer, in the dimension table. It is made the primary key...
2012-06-28 (first published: 2012-06-24)
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Status Column in SSISDB Catalog Database
I occasionally review the search terms people use to get to this blog and secretly celebrate knowing my post helped...
2012-06-19
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T-SQL Tuesday 31: SSIS 2012 Logging
Topic for this month’s T-SQL Tuesday, hosted by Aaron Nelson (@SQLVariant) is Logging.
I like to think of logging as a...
2012-06-19 (first published: 2012-06-12)
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Tips to improve your blog, really!
As I learnt a few things about blogging, I made a list of tips to get better at blogging. Thought...
2012-05-17
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Workspace database server was not found
You might constantly see a warning message that appears like the one below when creating Analysis Services Tabular projects. It...
2012-05-08
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How to execute a package from another package?
I hear you. You’ll use the Execute Package Task. This mechanism of executing one package from another is popularly knows...
2012-05-01
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Change Package Properties Using Parameters–SSIS 2012
In DTS, changing package properties was close to impossible (the less we talk about DTS, the better). Package configurations introduced...
2012-04-24
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Blogs
Claude finds two cryptographic weaknesses (but the sky isn’t falling)
By Brian Kelley
If you haven't seen the announcement, Anthropic was able to utilize Claude (Mythos Preview)...
Generate Embeddings in SQL with Aurora and Bedrock
Most embedding pipelines on AWS have the same shape: a job reads rows out...
Resolving SQL Server Transaction Log Issues Efficiently
By Arun Sirpal
Transaction log issues are one of the quietest ways a healthy database turns into...
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Question of the Day
Symmetric Key Encryption
If I run this statement in SQL Server 2025, how is the password encrypted?
CREATE SYMMETRIC KEY MySymmetricKey WITH ALGORITHM = AES_256, KEY_SOURCE = 'My secret key source passphrase', IDENTITY_VALUE = 'My secret identity value' ENCRYPTION BY PASSWORD = 'S&perS#cretP@ssword7'; GOSee possible answers