Getting Drive Info, Part 5, the SSIS WMI Data Reader Task
In the final installment of the Getting Drive Info series (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4), SSIS will again be used to collect and save the drive...
2010-12-04
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Getting Drive Info, Part 5, the SSIS WMI Data Reader Task
In the final installment of the Getting Drive Info series (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4), SSIS will...
2010-12-04
1,898 reads
RTFM365 Week 0
For the next year, I will read from SQL Server Books Online a little every day, and blog about it weekly. ...
2010-12-03
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Book Review: Alas, Babylon
I just re-read Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank ($10 @ Amazon). It’s a bit of a touchstone for me. It was...
2010-12-03
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Free SQL Server Training for the Week of December 6, 2010
Took a break from posting this last Friday due to the holidays. But I'm back with the weekly updates.
Monday
PASS Data Warehousing/BI...
2010-12-03
942 reads
Signal Waits and Resource Waits...a clarification
Signal Waits vs. Resource Waits
During my presentation at SQLSaturday#59, I spoke about the categories of wait types, such as...
2010-12-03
20,924 reads
MCM – Useful Resources
This is just a short post for a Friday. There has been a lot written over the past few weeks...
2010-12-03
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How Many Have I Read?
I saw this on Facebook, and while I’m not sure of the list, I reproduced it here. I think that...
2010-12-03
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What You Practice
I saw a very interesting blog at 37 Signals on the quote “the things you do more often are the...
2010-12-03
547 reads
All Things Awesome and MidnightDBA-y – 12/2/2010
I’ve got to figure out a good way to present a regular summary of what we do every week. Until...
2010-12-02
653 reads
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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Searching for my own posts
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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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Question of the Day
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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