Using Database Transactions across multiple SSIS Tasks
If you experiment at all with transactions that are built into SSIS you will discover that they are highly flawed. ...
2010-03-08
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Blogs
Should DBAs be Paid Overtime?
For the past several weeks, I have been running a poll on www.bradmcgehee.com, asking visitors if they thought that DBAs...
2010-03-05
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Querying Oracle from Powershell Part 2
In part one we installed and configured the Oracle client software, in this post we will query an Oracle database...
2010-03-04
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Querying Oracle from Powershell Part 1
In this two part blog post we will demonstrate how to query an Oracle database from Powershell. Before we can...
2010-03-04
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March Question: What is the biggest mistake/problem you have ever found on a SQL Server instance, and how did you fix it?
Post your responses to the above SQL Aloha Question of the Month in the comments section below (at www.bradmcgehee.com if...
2010-03-03
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How Do You Drive Your DBA Mad?
I’ve written about a few ‘worst practices’ over the years to call attention to some things that are bad (or...
2010-03-03
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IntelliSense Slow to Refresh
IntelliSense in SQL Server 2008 can sometimes not be very intelligent. It’s there to help you can sometimes cause more...
2010-03-01
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SQLSaturday Acquired by PASS – Reactions
The Announcement
On February 2nd, PASS (@sqlpass), here, and Andy Warren (@sqlandy), here, announced ownership of the SQLSaturday franchise brand was transferred...
2010-02-26
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Experiments with Data Compression in SQL Server 2008
Data compression is an Enterprise Edition only feature that was added in SQL Server 2008. It allows you to use...
2010-02-26
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Data Type Precedence and Implicit Conversions
In my last post, I noted that one of the biggest differences between ISNULL and COALESCE was the fact that...
2010-02-25
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Blogs
Azure – HorizonDB
By Vinay Thakur
As Open Source – PostgreSQL and AI is a growing and powerful DB system,...
A New Chapter: Why I Made the Move from Dayforce to ESO
By gbargsley
A New Chapter: Why I Made the Move from Dayforce to ESO Over the...
Lean Six Sigma – Brief
By Vinay Thakur
When you have a project or system, it has to be optimized, tuned, and...
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Using IFF within a WHERE clause
I have a WHERE clause I need to add to a list of other...
Question of the Day
DBCC CHECKDB Limits II
I have a SQL Server 2025 database that I want to check for corruption every night. One of the things we do is disable indexes used for ETL loads during the weekend and re-enable them on Monday morning. If we run DBCC over the weekend, are our disabled indexes checked for consistency?
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