Change Tracking for Data Warehouse Loads (Webinar)
For data warehouse professionals, data change detection is is a central part of what we do. Accurately detecting new, changed,...
2016-03-01
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Tim Mitchell
Using Custom File Delimiters in SSIS
File-based ETL is usually dull. Most systems generate (or expect to consume) files that are delimited, with a common field...
2016-02-16 (first published: 2016-02-05)
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Using Change Tracking in SSIS
Recently, I wrote about how to get started with SQL Server change tracking, and I demonstrated a design pattern I...
2016-01-22
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Using SQL Server Change Tracking for Incremental Loads
Earlier this week I wrote about the basics of change tracking in SQL Server, and showed how to get started...
2016-01-28 (first published: 2016-01-20)
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Getting Started with Change Tracking in SQL Server
Change tracking for SQL Server is a flexible and easy-to-use technology for monitoring tables for inserts, updates, and deletes. In...
2016-01-18
1,080 reads
New Gear: Lenovo Yoga 900
For several months I’ve been eyeing a replacement for my aging Surface Pro 2. Although I’ve been pretty happy with...
2016-01-11 (first published: 2016-01-06)
2,423 reads
Technical Dogma
Humans are creatures of habit, and I suspect that engineering/technical types are even more so. We find something that works...
2016-01-04
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The Discomfort Zone
Over the Thanksgiving holiday, I read a book entitled The Phoenix Project. This book has been in my Kindle library...
2015-12-04 (first published: 2015-12-01)
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PASS Summit 2015 Keynote – Day 2
Today is the second day of the SQL PASS Summit in Seattle, Washington. I’ll be live blogging today’s keynote address....
2015-10-29
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PASS Summit 2015 Keynote – Day 1
Today, I’ll be live blogging the SQL PASS 2015 keynote. Today is the third day of the PASS Summit, and...
2015-10-28
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Blogs
Giving AI Agents Visibility Into SQL Server with MCP
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what it actually takes to make an...
The Book of Redgate: Profits
By Steve Jones
Redgate is a for-profit company. We look to make money by building and selling...
Session Materials for Techorama & DataGrillen 2026
I’ve uploaded the slides for my Techorama session Microsoft Fabric for Dummies and my...
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