Use the power of regular expressions to cleanse your data right there inside the Data Flow. This transformation includes a full user interface for simple configuration, as well as advanced features such as error output configuration. Two regular expressions are used, a match expression and a replace expression. The transformation is designed around the named capture groups or match groups, and even supports multiple expressions.
There are some very interesting projects being performed with cloud services. Steve Jones talks about a few and the new computing without limits claim from Google.
Recently I was supporting a third party application. It queries to determine what tables it has permissions to before it proceeds with the rest of its functionality. We had implemented permissions based on the best practice of creating roles, assigning the permissions to the roles, and then making the users members of the roles. The application was querying INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLE_PRIVILEGES and of course didn't find any permissions directly against the user in question. We ended up granting explicit permissions to the user so the application would work, but I'm more interested in the general case. How can I determine permissions for an individual user?
Today Steve Jones talks about the accidental DBA and how they can find themselves in a position where they are responsible, but not well trained. In those cases, it's up to the individual to learn, but also the manager to ensure it gets done.
Sometimes, you can tire of writing the same PowerShell code once again. After this happened to Phil whilst keying in an SMO pipeline to access databases, it occurred to him that he should have only one pipeline to access databases in PowerShell, one reusable pipeline
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So you want to group your data for charting in Excel? Here's how, the easy way!
One very handy item Steve Jones found as a DBA was a DBA only database on each instance. Today he asks you if you have one and if not, why not. There are good reasons to have one, and security is usually not a problem.
Continuous integration, or CI, brings developers closer to delivering error-free software flawlessly. Find out how to implement it.
These days it seems there's no shortage of bad managers out there. However the bad ones do more than hurt morale, they actually can impact productivity. Steve Jones wonders why companies don't do more to fix this.
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In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
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