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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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Earlier this week, the state of Iowa held its caucuses to choose each political party’s nominee for November’s presidential election. Being the first state in each election cycle to...
2020-02-11 (first published: 2020-02-06)
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The JOIN() function in SQL Server Reporting Services is a handy tool that allows you to turn a list into a delimited string value. This function accepts two parameters,...
2019-12-22
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By Steve Jones
vicarous – adj. curious to know what someone else would do if they were...
Say we have a database that we want to migrate a copy of into...
We are trying to get apps and users off of using SQL accounts to...
Hi I have this view to check if a job is running: SELECT...
All, if you are like me and do not care for the built-in color...
Certain internal SQL Server actions cause internal checkpoints. Which of these actions does not cause an internal checkpoint?
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