Making SSIS Connections Dynamic - SQL School Video
Integration Services is an ETL programming environment that gives you a tremendous number of options. In this video, MVP Brian Knight shows how you can change your connections dynamically.
Profiler - Logging Results to a Table
Profiler is a fantastic tool for SQL Server DBAs to enable them to examine how batches and code is submitted to the server. Expert SQL Server trainer, Andy Warren, brings us a new article that exaamines how you can log that data in another SQL Server table for later analysis.
Prometheus
The myth of Prometheus has some relevance to technology workers. How? Read what Steve Jones thinks.
Check your SQL Server using Windows PowerShell – Part 5
This fifth installment of the “Check your SQL Server using Windows PowerShell” series illustrates how to access SQL Server instance properties and SQL Server configuration details using Windows PowerShell.
Should He Stay or Should He Go?
Read the first page of the linked article and then cast your vote in this Friday's poll.
Should He Stay or Should He Go?
Read the first page of the linked article and then cast your vote in this Friday's poll.
Should He Stay or Should He Go?
Read the first page of the linked article and then cast your vote in this Friday's poll.
The Baker's Dozen: 13 Tips for SQL Server 2008 and SSRS 2008
SQL Server 2008 gets new developer features, and SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services gets a facelift and new architecture that no longer requires Internet Information Services.
DLP Technology
Steve Jones isn't talking about his new television, but rather a new technology dealing with data and databases.
The FILESTREAM Data Type in SQL Server 2008
There is a new data type in SQL Server 2008 that might help you deal with all those music, image, and other media files in SQL Server. FILESTREAM allows you to store these files in the file system, but access them from within SQL Server. New author Deepa Gheewala brings us a look at setting a table for FILESTREAM.
Blogs
Resetting on the AI hype train
By Brian Kelley
There's a great article from MIT Technology Review about resetting on the hype of...
A New Word: Etherness
By Steve Jones
etherness – n. the wistful feeling of looking around a gathering of loved ones,...
Vibe Coding a Login Tracking System
By Steve Jones
A customer was asking about tracking logins and logouts in Redgate Monitor. We don’t...
Forums
The Microsoft SQL Year in Review
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T-SQL in SQL Server 2025: The || Operator
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Your Value from a Conference
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Question of the Day
UNISTR Basics
What does this code return in SQL Server 2025+? (assume the database has an appropriate collation)
SELECT UNISTR('Hello 4E16754C') AS 'A Classic';
A: 
B: 
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