Somebody Doesn’t Like You, and That’s Good
Everybody wants to be liked, to some extent. Being disliked by others feels like a deficiency, a shortcoming in oneself...
2015-04-24
561 reads
Tim Mitchell
Using the SSIS Object Variable as a Data Flow Source
Object variables in SSIS are incredibly versatile, allowing the storage of almost any type of data (even .NET objects). In...
2015-04-30 (first published: 2015-04-20)
12,154 reads
Handling Mixed Format Data Files in SSIS
Some time back I wrote about how to use the script component to parse out ragged data files in SSIS....
2015-04-22 (first published: 2015-04-13)
5,993 reads
A full day with me, SSIS, and Edgar Allan Poe
When I think about Baltimore, I think about Edgar Allan Poe. Baltimore was Poe’s one-time home, and in fact there...
2015-04-10
613 reads
On Failure: On Being a Screw-Up
“He’s a screw-up. Always trying things that don’t work.”
I’ll be honest: I used to be afraid of being the person...
2015-04-17 (first published: 2015-04-09)
5,685 reads
Null, empty string, or zero?
The answer: It Depends.
One of the more common problems I encounter when managing data quality, especially in an ETL process,...
2015-04-15 (first published: 2015-04-06)
7,562 reads
Best of PASS Summit 2014: Building Bullet-Resistant SSIS Packages
This week, PASS announced the Best of PASS Summit 2014, a collection of the 10 highest-rated sessions from last fall’s...
2015-04-13 (first published: 2015-04-04)
5,941 reads
Finally, a Universal Data Integration Utility
Earlier today, the fine folks at the F. Oobar Corporation released a revolutionary product: a universal data integration utility. This...
2015-04-01
729 reads
Why I Want to Have Coffee With You
Yesterday I read an article entitled “Why I Don’t Want to Have Coffee With You”, in which the author writes...
2015-04-10 (first published: 2015-03-31)
7,880 reads
The Idea Book
How many times have you said to yourself, “Someone should build an application that does [x]…”, or “Wouldn’t it be...
2015-03-25
770 reads
Blogs
Down the Rabbit Hole: Dealing with Ad-Hoc Data Requests
By Rayis Imayev
"But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked."Oh, you can’t help...
Adding a Local Model to Ollama through the GUI
By Steve Jones
I saw some good reviews of the small gemma3 model in a few places...
Connect resiliently to SQL Server
Why you should connect resiliently to SQL Server Transient failures happen — in the cloud...
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