31 Days of SSIS – Using Breakpoints (2/31)
31 Days of SSIS
As I mentioned in the introductory post, I’m writing 31 Days of SSIS. Today’s post is going...
2011-01-02
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TPC-E Benchmark Analysis by CPU Type
As an experiment, I decided to import the current official TPC-E results spreadsheet into a SQL Server 2008 R2 database,...
2011-01-01
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31 Days of SSIS – Raw Files Are Awesome (1/31)
As I mentioned in the introductory post, I’m writing 31 Days of SSIS. Let’s start off this series with a...
2011-01-01
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January Question: As a DBA, how do you manage your disk space?
Managing disk space is an important responsibility of the DBA, and there are many ways to perform this task. In...
2011-01-01
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31 Days of SSIS – The Introduction
31 Days of SSIS
Last year, Glenn Berry (Blog | @GlennAlanBerry) wrote a series of posts that he called A DMV A...
2011-01-01
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Re-Awarded MVP for 2011
I received my notice that I was renewed as a MIcrosoft MVP for SQL Server for 2011. It's a nice...
2011-01-01
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MVP Award for 2011
I just received notification from the Microsoft MVP Award Program that I’ve received the MVP award for SQL Server for...
2011-01-01
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Easy CDC part 2: Automating a Quick Initial Load, and Some Gotchas
Introduction
A couple of weeks ago I made this post about quickly building a CDC system against a vendor ERP database....
2011-01-01
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2010 Goals Review
I started the year with 10 Goals for 2010 and now I'll end it by looking at how many of...
2010-12-31
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XQuery for the Non-Expert – Substring() Function
Follow the rest of this series at the XQuery for the Non-Expert – X-Query Resources introduction post.
Talk to the Experts
Within the...
2010-12-31
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Blogs
Narrow Task Decomposition in AI Pipeline Agents
A nightly load into sales_fact fails. Ask an orchestrating agent to break down the...
Car Update: August 2026
By Steve Jones
It’s been some time since I provided a car update, so I decided to...
Microsoft Fabric OneLake Shortcuts: When to Use Them and When Not To
By James Serra
An architecture scenario Imagine separate Sales, Finance, Shared Data, and Executive Analytics workspaces. Sales...
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How to Work with On-Premises AI Models to Generate T-SQL Code
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Escaping Strings
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Escaping Strings
The STRING_ESCAPE() function requires 2 parameters in SQL Server 2025. The first is a string of text and the second is the type of escape rules being used. What are the options for the second parameter?
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