SQLBits - The 7 Wonders of SQL
Last day for early bird registration for the next SQLBits conference on Sept 30th-Oct 2, 2010 at York University. SQLServerCentral has a discount code if you'd like to attend.
Automatic Restart of SSIS packages after Failover or Failure
SSIS makes it possible to minimize work lost by starting after the last successfully executed control flow task upon restarting a failed package. From there, one challenge many seek to overcome is automatically restarting that package at that point without any manual intervention. This would make it possible for your SSIS packages to be running, your cluster to failover, and your SSIS packages to restart and complete without you having to respond to the failover and restart them.
SQL or MDX query trace in SSRS - trick of imagination or a real thing?
I sometimes have ghost memories - I remember some things that had never in fact happened. And I was wondering if ...
SQL Saturday #50 - East Iowa
Come to a SQL Saturday in Iowa City on Sept 18, 2010 and get a free day of training from the SQL community.
Check Twice, Update Once
An update to the Microsoft Best Practices Analyzer tool intrigues Steve Jones as it seems to have been enhanced to better help DBAs manage SQL Server.
Restricting SecurityAdmin on SQL Server 2005/2008
Members of the securityadmin role can escalate to sysadmin rights. Here's how to restrict them back to 2000 levels.
DMVs for Query Plan Metadata
Before you can tackle any performance issues with a working database, you need to know which queries to work on first: The ones that are taking the most time in total, and which are the most expensive in terms of cache, CPU and disk. Although SQL Server Management Studio can help, it isn't long before you need an armoury of DMVs to provide you the statistics to find the culprits.
How Old Are Your Database Statistics?
Unlike fine wine, database statistics do not improve with age. I recently helped out with a client who was having...
Parsing an ADO result set into a comma separated string in SSIS
This article describes a way to parse a result set in SSIS using For each loop container, variables and SQL task.
Where Are the Programmers?
Today Steve Jones has a little fun with titles in technology, and what we might start to call ourselves instead of DBAs.
Blogs
A New Word: los vidados
By Steve Jones
los vidados – n. the half-remembered acquaintances you knew years ago, who you might...
In-Person CISA Training – April 13-16, 2026
By Brian Kelley
I will be leading an in-person Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) exam prep class...
EightKB 2026
EightKB is back again for 2026! The biggest online SQL Server internals conference is...
Forums
query to track time spent on individual tasks in SSIS
Hi everyone I am looking at building a query to determine how much time...
SQL Server Transactional Replication from Always On Availability Groups to Azure SQL Database
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Hidden Heroes
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences I
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which are explicitly linked to increment a number in a table when a new row is added?
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