SQL Saturday 56 Dallas (BI Edition) - Recap
This past Saturday, our NTSSUG group hosted SQL Saturday 56, which was our second SQL Saturday of the year. This...
2010-10-26
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Tim Mitchell
PASS Summit, Birds of a Feather Lunch, and Ask the Experts
The PASS Summit is just around the corner, less than a month away. Although I’m not presenting a session at...
2010-10-19
590 reads
SQL Saturday 52 Recap
I spent this past weekend traveling to and attending SQL Saturday Colorado in the outskirts of Denver. This was the...
2010-09-30
2,935 reads
Broken or Just Bent? #passvotes
Though things have died down a bit since the initial backlash, the recent development in the PASS board election process...
2010-09-14
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SSIS: Conditional File Processing in a ForEach Loop
I’ve fielded a number of requests recently asking how to interrogate a file within SSIS and change the processing rules...
2010-08-23
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SQL Saturday 28 Baton Rouge - Recap
Last weekend I went to Baton Rouge (by way of New Orleans) to attend and speak at the second annual...
2010-08-21
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It’s the Process
Unless you’ve spent the last two days hiding under a rock, you’ve heard the uproar around this week’s development in...
2010-08-19
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Dallas-area NTSSUG Happenings
First, apologies to those of you outside the Dallas-Ft. Worth metro area… I’ve backed off from using my blog as...
2010-08-17
607 reads
SQL Saturday 28 Baton Rouge and Ask the Experts
The second annual SQL Saturday Baton Rouge event is coming up in less than two weeks! Have you registered?
I’m honored...
2010-08-02
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What Are You Afraid to Ask?
There are some questions that can’t necessarily be answered in a book or a training video. Those are often the...
2010-08-02
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Blogs
Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI
By Steve Jones
I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
Don’t Miss Out – SQL Server Query Tuning Fundamentals Starts Next Monday!
Next Monday, February 9, 2026, my one-day live online training SQL Server Query Tuning...
Forums
Huge frustration - Database watcher with two elastic pools
Think there's a reason why this is still in preview, but have someone manage...
SQL Server 2025 Query Performance Tuning: Troubleshoot and Optimize Query Performance
Comments posted to this topic are about the item SQL Server 2025 Query Performance...
Is it uncommon for Dev's to have a data model of the source data
This is a generic question. To the moderators, I wasn't sure where to place...
Question of the Day
Creating JSON I
On SQL Server 2025, what happens when I run this code:
SELECT JSON_OBJECTAGG( 'City':'Denver') GOSee possible answers