yeah power point is only 20-30% of the show, like i mentioned. except for a pptx of sponsors logos, nothing executes in any specific order. Power point is very top...

hey guys my non profit's event is coming up again, and i'm still looking to replace something i cobbled together that is more professional.
i really need a organized deck...

Those three are not quite the same; they really are different technologies with different requirements.
TDE(Transparent Data Encryption) protects your data at rest: that means a backup, or a san...

I'm with Luis, one of the most recurring performance and bad data issues i see is not maintaining data types when comparing data to parameters.
datetimes are datetimes, varchars are...

For those of you subscribed to this thread, I've made some fixes today for a couple of things i found.
These changes are  noted in section V3.17.
When scripting foreign...

your data type sized obviously don't match...since it's a linked server, you can properly interrogate their sizes.

if both sides are SQL server, a simple EXCEPT operator should work:

i think the issue is you did not declare an outer variable to capture the results as an output , nor did you actually use the variable declared in the...

i think you want to use a different function right?

this page from Microsoft has a decent example:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/system-functions/getfilenamespacepath-transact-sql

what does this return for you?
SELECT...

Probably not enough information...what, specifically, is the package doing?
i would be looking at performance in the database first and foremost, assuming the package is doing something in the database....

i'll help with the slightly more difficult one(#2)
for number 1, sys.databases has a create_date column.

for #2, i put this together, and it returns serveruptime, vs service uptime.

youll need basically three commands for each identity insert, because you have to toggle the setting off on one table, before you set it ON for the next.