Sometimes, you have to fix it yourself
The Problem
SQL Server is a huge product with lots of moving parts. Bugs happen. Microsoft has a place to voice...
2010-02-24
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Blogs
The T-SQL Hammer
The over-reliance on a familiar tool is best described with the quote, “if all you have is hammer, everything looks...
2010-02-23
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Development Lifecycle Deployment SSAS, SSRS, SSIS
Many companies have a very rigid development lifecycle for all products or solutions they develop. Deploying to each of these...
2010-02-23
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SSIS 2008 Script Component variable gotcha..
In a previous post I showed you how to access variables from within an SSIS script component. More specifically I...
2010-02-22
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Job Quality
Through a circuitous route, I encountered a meaningful, thought-provoking quote lately: "... the best way to predict the future is to...
2010-02-19
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Quick Tip Of The Day
Over and over again we are told that the DMV’s only hold data since your last reboot. So, how do...
2010-02-19
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DBA.Sleep(8hrs)
I have been pondering recently what helps me to sleep at night. Or, conversely, what prevents me from sleeping at...
2010-02-18
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SSIS Alpha Splits using the CODEPOINT() Function
A relatively common requirement in ETL processing is to break records into disparate outputs based on an alphabetical split on...
2010-02-12
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Key Discovery III
In Part I and Part II of the series, I discussed documenting and discovering Primary Keys and Clustered Indexes. In...
2010-02-11
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Find Efficiencies or Add Horsepower?
In our world sometimes it’s worth the time and effort for in depth tuning to get the machine to run...
2010-02-10
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Blogs
Webinar: Navigating the Database Landscape in 2026
By Steve Jones
For a number of years, we’ve produced the State of the Database Landscape report,...
Claude AI Convinced Me Not to Build an iPad App
By Steve Jones
I coach volleyball and I do a lot of stat stuff on paper. I...
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
Forums
SSMS 22 Latest Update Crashing
Hi all, I've just had to roll back my SSMS 22 version from 22.3.0,...
Transactional Replication setup issue
Hi! I've been banging my head against the wall for 2 days now trying...
The Power of Data and Privacy
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The Power of Data and...
Question of the Day
What's the Date?
In SQL Server 2025, there is a new function that returns the current date without the time. What is it?
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