Tim Mitchell

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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: )

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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: )

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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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T-SQL Tuesday #188: Growing the Community

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This month we have a great T-SQL Tuesday, hosted by John Sterrett. He has...

Unveiling the Legacy: POSTGRES to Modern Open-Source Powerhouse

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PostgreSQL, often referred to as Postgres, is a powerful, open-source object-relational database system that...

Capturing errors and auditing in Azure SQL DB

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Logging is a necessity in the database world, well, the entire tech world. You...

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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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Independence Day

The film independence day was released in 1996. Which of these queries returns that year is run today?

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