Do You Know These Free Events?
I frequently attend a few online training events that greatly help me learn new things. Thought I would share, if may...
2012-04-23
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Sam Vanga
Why Isn’t There A Deployment Server Edition For SSIS Projects?
Andy Leonard blogged about a gotcha when creating SSIS projects using SSDT yesterday. He showed that you can use any...
2012-04-19
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Execute T-SQL Statement Task
I spotted a new task in SSIS 2012 – Execute T-SQL Statement Task. It executes T-SQL statements, only Transact-SQL statements against...
2012-04-17
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Simple Tips To Speed Up Your SSIS Data Flow
There are a few design choices that can make your SSIS packages run super fast when loading data from table...
2012-04-10
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SQL Roundup – 03/16-2012
Howdy! I was flying last week, and for the first time i sat facing a flight attendant. You don’t actually...
2012-03-16
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Distinct Count in Analysis Services
Business users are often interested in finding distinct counts in addition to other aggregations. They may want to know the...
2012-03-14
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SQL Roundup – 03/09/2012
Welcome to another week of SQL Roundup. Just in case you missed, SQL Server 2012 was released this week and...
2012-03-09
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SSRS NoRows – Display a custom message when there is no data
In this short post, I’ll discuss NoRowsMessage property. When there is no data for a data region, the message you...
2012-03-06
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Introducing SQL Roundup
Following in the foot steps of John Sansom (b|t), I’m going to post a roundup of links from other blogs every Friday. I’ll...
2012-03-02
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Write a Variable To a File Using SSIS
Problem
I’ve a SSIS package. When it fails execution, I want to write a custom message including the package name and error...
2012-02-29
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Blogs
Creating a Striped Backup Set with AI
By Steve Jones
I needed to test a striped backup, so I decided to ask the AI’s...
Trace Flag 1448 – Lessons from a Technical Interview
By gbargsley
In SQL Server environments where transactional replication runs alongside Always On Availability Groups (AGs),...
Disable the sa login in SQL Server (and sleep better)
Disable the sa login in SQL Server (and sleep better)If you run SQL Server...
Forums
Create an HTML Report on the Status of SQL Server Agent Jobs
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SQLPS and syspolicy_purge_history job
The SQLPS.exe file has gone AWOL on 2 of my 4 SQL servers, ie,...
Be Wary of Data
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Question of the Day
Locking Hierarchies
You have a table [dbo].[orders] without a Clustered Index (Heap). The table does not have any other nonclustered indexes! You rund the following command in Read Committed Isolation Level:
SELECTo_orderdate,
o_orderkey,
o_custkey,
o_storekey
FROMdbo.orders
WHEREo_orderkey = 3877;