Podcast Interview: Is the On-Premises Data Warehouse Dead?
Recently I’ve been talking a lot with clients and others about the involvement of cloud architecture in a data warehouse...
2016-06-29 (first published: 2016-06-27)
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Tim Mitchell
What if Your Employer Won’t Support Your Career?
I’ve had a lot of luck in my career, especially as it pertains to my work environment. Although I can’t...
2016-07-01 (first published: 2016-06-23)
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Join Me at PASS Summit 2016
It seems like it was just yesterday that we all said goodbye in Seattle at last year’s PASS Summit, but...
2016-06-22
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Bad Data Can Kill
Bad data can kill. Literally. I’m not talking about the impact of bad data on the bottom line of business,...
2016-05-31 (first published: 2016-05-20)
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ETL Data Lineage
Before I began my technical career over a decade and a half ago, I spent several years working in law...
2016-05-06
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SSIS Training Classes for Summer 2016
If you are looking for affordable, high-quality training on SQL Server Integration Services, you may be interested in one of...
2016-05-05
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Refocus
Three years ago, I left the ranks of full-time employment to become an independent consultant. At the same time, I...
2016-05-04
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ETL Auditing
It happens far too often: Once an ETL process has been tested and executes successfully, there are no further checks...
2016-03-29 (first published: 2016-03-22)
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ETL Logging
If you were to poll data professionals on which tasks they enjoy working on the most, ETL logging would probably...
2016-03-22 (first published: 2016-03-14)
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Polishing The Silverware
A few weeks ago I met a couple of my business partners in a moderately upscale restaurant in the Washington,...
2016-03-08
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Blogs
A New Word: on tenderhooks
By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
SQL Server Journey till 2025 (brief)
By Vinay Thakur
Quick Summary for Microsoft SQL Server till 2025, I am fortunate to be part...
Forums
how do i map the "current" object entry in for each to one variable
hi, in an ssis for each loop over an object variable called MyListVariable, i...
Simulating Mercury’s Orbital Motion Using Pure T-SQL (NASA 2025 Dataset)
SQL Server is typically viewed as a transactional or analytical database engine. However, it...
Azure SQL Database | CREATE EVENT SESSION [Blocking_Capture] ON DATABASE
Hello, Is there a way in Azure SQL Database to change the 'Blocking Process...
Question of the Day
String Similarity I
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
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