ETL Antipattern: Start With Writing Code
In this first post in my series on ETL Antipatterns, I’m going to discuss one of the most common missteps when building an extract-transform-load (ETL) process: jumping straight into...
2020-12-12
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Tim Mitchell
The Eleven Days of Festivus 2020
We’re rounding the corner to the second half of December, which means it’s time for my favorite holiday: Festivus! Like many of you, I enjoy gathering around the Festivus...
2020-12-12
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Creating Your First Azure Data Factory
Azure Data Factory has grown in both popularity and utility in the past several years. It has evolved beyond its significant limitations in its initial version, and is quickly...
2020-09-08 (first published: 2020-08-28)
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My New Favorite Demo Dataset: Dunder Mifflin Data
Those of us who write technical articles and deliver technical presentations are always on the lookout for the perfect data set for demonstration and testing. Microsoft has done a...
2020-08-17 (first published: 2020-08-06)
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Reusing a Recordset in an SSIS Object Variable
A few years back, I wrote a blog post about using an SSIS object variable as a data flow source. In that post, I described how you could load...
2020-07-30
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The What, Why, When, and How of Incremental Loads
When moving data in an extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) process, the most efficient design pattern is to touch only the data you must, copying just the data that...
2020-08-05 (first published: 2020-07-23)
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Comparing SSIS and Azure Data Factory
For the better part of 15 years, SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) has been the go-to enterprise extract-transform-load (ETL) tool for shops running on Microsoft SQL Server. More recently,...
2020-07-28 (first published: 2020-07-16)
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The SSIS Catalog: Install, Manage, Secure, and Monitor your Enterprise ETL Infrastructure
I’m happy to announce the publication of my latest book. The SSIS Catalog: Install, Manage, Secure, and Monitor your Enterprise ETL Infrastructure is now available on Amazon in both...
2020-07-13
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SSIS Parameters
SSIS parameters help to ease the process of passing runtime values to SSIS packages. For values that can change over time, using parameters in SSIS is an ideal means...
2020-07-14 (first published: 2020-07-02)
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Secure Your Data Prep Area
I’ve been building ETL processes for many years, and I’ve learned two universal truths: data preparation is messy, and you must always secure your data prep area. A data...
2020-06-18
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Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #188: Growing the Community
By Steve Jones
This month we have a great T-SQL Tuesday, hosted by John Sterrett. He has...
Unveiling the Legacy: POSTGRES to Modern Open-Source Powerhouse
By Rohit Garg
PostgreSQL, often referred to as Postgres, is a powerful, open-source object-relational database system that...
Capturing errors and auditing in Azure SQL DB
Logging is a necessity in the database world, well, the entire tech world. You...
Forums
The Mindset of a Database Administrator: A Love Letter to Risk Aversion
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Unmasking CXPACKET and CXCONSUMER in SQL Server: What Your Execution Plan Isn’t Telling You
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how to move all SP from one db to another db?
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The film independence day was released in 1996. Which of these queries returns that year is run today?
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