Skills for Everyone in Tech
Today Kathi talks about the skills that all of us need to succeed in our careers.
SSIS Basics: Data cleansing using derived columns
On this article I will show you how to perform a basic data cleansing using the derived column data transformation
SQL Server 2019 is Here
On Monday, Sep 24, 2018, at the Ignite 2018 conference, Microsoft announced the first public preview of SQL Server 2019 (community technical preview (CTP) release of SQL Server 2.0).This new release of SQL Server is packed with many new features to improve performance, integrate your increasing volumes of corporate data, beef up security, and more.
Burnout
Doing the same thing for too long, and not enjoying it, isn't good for anyone. You might be burned out, or as Steve Jones notes, you might need to change our perspective.
Get the Error Column Name in SSIS
This article will show how you can get the column name for error rows in an SSIS 2016 Data Flow task.
Extended Events Workbench
The Extended Events (or XEvents) feature has been part of SQL Server since 2008, but many database professionals struggle to get started using it. In this article, Phil Factor demonstrates several useful Extended Event sessions that measure just one thing in each. He then provides the code necessary to parse the resulting XML into something you can use.
Can Auditing Fail?
It doesn't seem to be a feature that an auditing system can fail, but the application being audited continues to run.
The New Lightweight Query Plan Profile Hint
SQL Server 2016 & 2017 enable a new way to get query performance metrics live via Extended Events.
Always On - Endpoint Ownership
Whoever creates an AlwaysOn group is, by default, the owner of the endpoint. This is generally not a problem…unless that person leaves the company and you need to delete the login.
Blogs
Why Database AI Agents need Layers?
By Arun Sirpal
Third part in my Ai series with databases. When building AI solutions within the...
Un-Migrating From the Cloud: T-SQL Tuesday #199
By Steve Jones
This month we have a very interesting invitation from Koen Verbeeck. He has hosted...
T-SQL Tuesday #199: Back to the on-prem
It’s the second tuesday of the month, which means T-SQL Tuesday time! This month’s...
Forums
How Do the Experts Become Experts?
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Stairway to Reliable Database Deployments Level 4 – Preparing for Production Deployment
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Secure Communications
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Question of the Day
Secure Communications
As of June 2026, what is the best version of TLS to use with SQL Server?
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