Copying Connection Managers in SSIS
Did you know you can copy and paste connection managers in SSIS? While I haven’t found this a huge benefit...
2012-12-10
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SQLStudies
Logins vs Users
Logins are not Users. It’s a pretty easy concept but one that seems to give a lot of people problems....
2012-12-12 (first published: 2012-12-03)
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Creating an empty table from a SELECT statement
I’m in the middle of reading a good book on DMVs, “SQL Server DMVs in Action” http://www.manning.com/stirk by Ian W....
2012-11-30 (first published: 2012-11-26)
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CTEs beyond SELECT
The other day I was writing a query to pull some DMV information and I ended up using several CTEs...
2012-11-20
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Looping through multiple servers in SSIS Part 3
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve set up a SSIS package that will loop through a group of servers...
2012-11-15
2,798 reads
Time Trial sys.dm_exec_query_plan vs sys.dm_exec_sql_text
I’ve been working on a way to test performance usage on a server by database. I started out using sys.dm_exec_query_stats...
2012-11-12
1,702 reads
Looping through multiple servers in SSIS part 2
Last week I posted a quick example of looping through multiple servers using SSIS and being in a bit of...
2012-11-12 (first published: 2012-11-09)
2,776 reads
A review of Knight’s 24-Hour Trainer Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Integration Services
About three years ago my manager came up to me and said “We need someone to learn SSIS, you’re it.” ...
2012-11-07
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Looping through multiple servers in SSIS
This is just a quickie post to answer a question on how to loop through multiple servers in SSIS. There...
2012-11-05 (first published: 2012-10-31)
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How do I find all stored procedures or views that use a specific table?
Many years ago when I was still working on SQL 2000 I occasionally needed to find all stored procedures and views...
2012-10-26
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Blogs
Advice I Like: Praise
By Steve Jones
Don’t reserve your kindest praise for a person until their eulogy. Tell them while...
How to Install SQL Server 2025 RC0 on an Azure VM
I wanted to try out the new JSON index which is for the moment...
Prepping for Certification, Part 1 of ?
By Brian Kelley
I thought it would be good to put my thoughts down on how to...
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is there a way to "detect" schema like changes on a server?
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Question of the Day
Copying Production Schema
If I use DBCC CLONEDATABASE, can I remove some of the information from the copy?
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