Kicking the Tires on SSIS 2016
Last week I hosted a webinar in which I reviewed some of the coming changes for SQL Server Integration Services...
2015-10-19 (first published: 2015-10-07)
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Tim Mitchell
Advanced SSIS Training Course Preview
If you are looking for some end-of-year training before the new budget year rolls around, consider joining Andy Leonard and...
2015-10-02 (first published: 2015-09-28)
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Webinar: Kicking the Tires on SSIS 2016
The next version of SSIS is on the horizon. Are you ready?
In next Tuesday’s webinar, I’ll be reviewing and demonstrating...
2015-09-23
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Ryan Adams for SQL PASS Board
It’s election season! No, I’m not talking about The Donald, The Clinton, The Neurosurgeon, The Veep, or any of those...
2015-09-15
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Webinar: Change Tracking for Data Warehouse Loads
For data warehouse professionals, change detection is critical. Accurately detecting new, changed, and deleted records means the difference between doing...
2015-09-14
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Building Better SSIS Packages Class in Dallas
I’m happy to announce a new, full-day class in the Dallas area next month. I’ll be presenting my Building Better...
2015-09-15 (first published: 2015-09-08)
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Sixty Days to Summit–Are You Ready?
In just two short months – exactly sixty days from today – the SQL PASS Summit will begin. Although it’s still a...
2015-08-28
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Above All, Good Judgment
What is permissible is not always honorable. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
Rules. Best practices. Guidelines. Design patterns. Policies. All are good and...
2015-08-24
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We Don’t Trust This Data
“Learning to trust is one of life’s most difficult tasks.” – Isaac Watts
As data professionals, there are times when our jobs...
2015-08-19 (first published: 2015-08-14)
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Downloading SFTP Files with SSIS
If you’ve used SSIS for any significant amount of time, you’ve almost certainly run into this roadblock: You need to...
2015-08-03
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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
Two foreign keys to the same table. Can't cascade deletes.
Not sure if this is really a relational theory question but it seems about...
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...
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