Data Cleansing with the SSIS Data Flow
A webinar from MVP Brian Knight and Pragmatic Works this week will help you learn how to clean up data and apply business rules in your data flows.
Electronic Health Records – What’s the Big Deal? (Part 1)
Last week, I had lunch with an old friend who is, by his own definition, technologically ignorant. While we caught up, he asked me to explain in terms he could understand what I do for a living. I went through one of my spiels (the one usually..
Using The Transfer Jobs Task in SQL Server Integration Services
Database Administrators can use the Transfer Jobs Task to transfer one or more SQL Server Agent Jobs between different SQL Server instances
Being Around Smart People is Exciting
Steve Jones has attended a lot of conferences, including one recently in Austin. With the PASS Summit and SQL Connections coming up soon, he shares some reasons why a conference can be a great way to spend your training money.
Being Around Smart People is Exciting
Steve Jones has attended a lot of conferences, including one recently in Austin. With the PASS Summit and SQL Connections coming up soon, he shares some reasons why a conference can be a great way to spend your training money.
Being Around Smart People is Exciting
Steve Jones has attended a lot of conferences, including one recently in Austin. With the PASS Summit and SQL Connections coming up soon, he shares some reasons why a conference can be a great way to spend your training money.
Being Around Smart People is Exciting
Steve Jones has attended a lot of conferences, including one recently in Austin. With the PASS Summit and SQL Connections coming up soon, he shares some reasons why a conference can be a great way to spend your training money.
Kimball University: Six Key Decisions for ETL Architectures
Best-practice advice on software vs. coding, where to integrate, how to capture changed data, when to stage data, where to correct data and what latency levels to shoot for.
SQL Server Consolidation
In the crusade to cut expenses, Data Centres (and IT Infrastructure) are now coming under scrutiny as a possible source of savings. Half-informed executives now rally behind the cry of "Virtualization!", but virtualization is only part of the story - The tip of the consolidation iceberg - and it might not actually save you as much as you think. Thomas LaRock takes us deeper.
SQL Server Legend – Data Files and Threads
Someone was asking about using multiple data files recently to try and increase performance. I had answered that unless you...
Blogs
PlanTrace Now Supports PostgreSQL
PlanTrace Now Supports PostgreSQL The same plan analysis you know from...
A New Word: the Kinder Surprise
By Steve Jones
the kinder surprise – . the point in your early adolescence when you realize...
Crash-Consistent Snapshot Cloning - Hyper-V Edition
If you’ve been following my T-SQL Snapshot Backup series, most of what I’ve covered...
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Question of the Day
SSoL Support on the OS
On which Linux versions is SQL Server 2025 on Linux supported?
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