SSIS Catalog Project Versioning
If you’ve spent much time working with the SSIS catalog, you likely already know that the catalog is where all...
2016-11-15 (first published: 2016-11-11)
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Tim Mitchell
ETL Atomicity
I still remember the first real ETL process I developed. I was working for a hospital at the time, going...
2016-11-04
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Webinar on Change Tracking for Data Warehouse Loads
Join me online on Tuesday, November 15th at 1:00PM as I host a webinar entitled “Managing Data Warehouse Incremental Loads...
2016-11-04
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PASS Summit 2016 Recap
It has been a fantastic week here in Seattle at the annual PASS Summit. I’ve spent the last five days...
2016-10-28
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PASS Summit 2016: Day 2 Keynote
This week I’m attending the SQL PASS Summit in Seattle. I’ll be live blogging each of the keynote presentations on...
2016-10-27
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PASS Summit 2016: Day 1 Keynote
This week I’m attending the SQL PASS Summit in Seattle. I’ll be live blogging each of the keynote presentations on...
2016-10-26
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Studying Failures
Over the weekend, I went to the local theater to watch Sully, the movie about the US Airways pilot who...
2016-10-05 (first published: 2016-09-26)
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Speaking at DevConnections 2016
I am excited to share that I will be presenting at the DevConnections conference in Las Vegas in October of...
2016-07-22
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Get Your Email Out of my ETL
Question from someone in one my recent classes: “What tool do you use to send email from ETL processes?” My...
2016-07-14
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ETL Modularity
Imagine for a moment that you’ve built a software thing. In fact, we’ll call it Thing. You put a lot...
2016-07-18 (first published: 2016-07-11)
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Blogs
Learn Better: Pause to Review More
By Brian Kelley
If you want to learn better, pause more in your learning to intentionally review.
Azure SQL Managed Instance Next-Gen: Bring on the IOPS
By John
If you’ve used Azure SQL Managed Instance General Purpose, you know the drill: to...
SQL, MDX, DAX – the languages of data
By DataOnWheels
Ramblings of a retired data architect Let me start by saying that I have...
Forums
Connecting Power BI to SSAS and effective user not working
Hi everyone, Below is a consolidated summary of what we validated Architecture & data...
High Availability setup - has anyone seen this method?
Hi all, I recently moved to a new employer who have their HA setup...
Semantic Search in SQL Server 2025
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Semantic Search in SQL Server...
Question of the Day
Encoding URLs
I have this data in a SQL Server 2025 table:
CREATE TABLE Response ( ResponseID INT NOT NULL CONSTRAINT ResponsePK PRIMARY KEY , ResponseVal VARBINARY(5000) ) GOIf I want to get a value from this table that I can add to a URL in a browser, which of these code items produces a result I can use? See possible answers