Service Accounts
A Friday poll from Steve Jones looks at service accounts and how you deal with passwords.
Service Accounts
A Friday poll from Steve Jones looks at service accounts and how you deal with passwords.
Service Accounts
A Friday poll from Steve Jones looks at service accounts and how you deal with passwords.
Upgrading live applications to SQL Server 2005
Part 4 in this series on upgrading an Active/Active cluster to SQL Server 2005 details how to push live data from one cluster to another using a conversion DB and replication.
Kimball ETL Part 1 – Data Profiling via SSIS Data Flow
A new series sponsored by Actuality Business Intelligence on data warehousing. In part 1, the data flow in SSIS packages are used to profile the source data and determine how it should be handled in the process.
Knock, Knock...What's Funny?
Humor in the workplace is essential for a good environment, but employees need to be careful about what they might consider sharing.
Operations Manager and SQL Server
Longtime expert DBA Thomas Laorck brings us a short article about how he uses Operations Manager to watch the SQL Servers he is responsible for and ignore others.
Comparing SQL Server constraints and DML triggers
Over the years, I have witnessed many developers being confused about when to use data-manipulation language (DML) triggers vs. when to use constraints.
Virtual Conversions
Virtualization is becoming more and more popular, being implemented in many companies every day to replace the need to add more physical boxes to your data center. Steve Jones comments on some of the handy features of virtualization.
Virtual Conversions
Virtualization is becoming more and more popular, being implemented in many companies every day to replace the need to add more physical boxes to your data center. Steve Jones comments on some of the handy features of virtualization.
Blogs
Questions and Answers from Running a Local LLM
By Steve Jones
I had a few random questions from my Running a Local LLM on Your...
Overview of Claude AI Models: Which One to Choose?
By Arun Sirpal
For those entering the AI space whether professionally or personally I wanted to give...
Houston AI-Lytics 2026–Powerpoint Slides
By Steve Jones
Thanks to everyone for attending my session on running a Local LLM. If you...
Forums
A question about how to store the address in the database
I have an app that has an address field on the customer and the...
SSIS package failing intermittently on last Excel Component
Good Afternoon, I have a Job which "fires" off an SSIS package (that is...
T-SQL in SQL Server 2025: JSON_ARRAYAGG
Comments posted to this topic are about the item T-SQL in SQL Server 2025:...
Question of the Day
Multiple Sequence Values
How do I easily get the next 12 sequence values from a sequence object?
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