Using WGS 84 shape maps in Power BI

(2018-Dec-31) Back in July of 2018, Ontario provincial government of Canada decided to decrease the number of Toronto city wards from 47...

A Better Way to Clean Up the SSIS Catalog Database

Earlier this week, I blogged about the automatic cleanup process that purges old data from the SSIS catalog logging tables. This nightly process removes data for operations that are...

A Better Way to Clean Up the SSIS Catalog Database

Earlier this week, I blogged about the automatic cleanup process that purges old data from the SSIS catalog logging tables....

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I mean, it can’t be that my calendar shows December and the year is almost over? Alright, I see I...

SQLs Black Box Recorder – sp_server_diagnostics

The diagnostics process will trap various server related health (diagnostics) information related to the SQL Server instance in an effort to try and detect potential failures and errors.
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SQL Servers Black Box Recorder – system_health

In this article, the focus will be directed to the next leg of the black box recorder - or the system_health Extended Event Session.
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Adding a database running in a docker container to SQLTest

in my previous post I wrote about how easy it is to add the tSQLt unit test framework to your...

How to use tSQLt unit test framework with a SQL Server database in a docker container

This blog post describes how to add the tSQLt unit testing framework to a database running in a docker container....