Training Day in London: Building Better SSIS Packages
I am delighted to announce that I’ll be delivering my full-day course, Building Better SSIS Packages, at the SQLBits conference...
2017-11-17
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Tim Mitchell
PASS Summit 2017 Day 2
It’s day 2 of the PASS Summit. Yesterday was a whirlwind of a day, after my early-morning post-Halloween trip to...
2017-11-02
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PASS Summit 2017 Day 1
It’s the first full day of the 2017 PASS Summit. As I write this, I am somewhere over the panhandle...
2017-11-01
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SQL Server Temporal Tables
Temporal data storage, which was defined in the ANSI SQL:2011 standard, describes an architecture in which relational databases maintain row-level...
2017-10-19 (first published: 2017-10-11)
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PASS Summit 2017 is Coming
The yearly PASS Summit is just around the corner, a little less than six weeks away. For those not familiar...
2017-09-22
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Knowing Your Data
Is it possible to be an effective data professional without knowing anything about the domain of data you support? I...
2017-09-01
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Using the SSIS Script Component With Multiple Outputs
One of the more common questions I find in SQL Server SSIS forums is how to split apart a single...
2017-08-22
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Upcoming Full-Day SSIS Class in Dallas
This year I’ve delivered my full-day Building Better SSIS Packages course a half dozen times across the country, but I...
2017-07-21
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Create a Staging Load with Biml
When designing the ETL architecture for new or changing systems, one of the more common needs is to create a...
2017-07-25 (first published: 2017-07-12)
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Running SSIS in an Azure VM
In the previous post in this series, I addressed how to use an on-premises instance of SSIS to move data...
2017-07-10
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Blogs
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI
By Steve Jones
I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
Forums
Optimism Without Illusion or Why AI Needs Blunt Technologists
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Optimism Without Illusion or Why...
SSIS with VS2022 64/32 issue with Excel files
Hi all, I'm trying to do classic scenario for loading multiple Excel files into...
Case part is sloooooow
Hi So the case statement is slowing this down - but for the life...
Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
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