Training Day in London: Building Better SSIS Packages
I am delighted to announce that I’ll be delivering my full-day course, Building Better SSIS Packages, at the SQLBits conference...
2017-11-17
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Tim Mitchell
PASS Summit 2017 Day 2
It’s day 2 of the PASS Summit. Yesterday was a whirlwind of a day, after my early-morning post-Halloween trip to...
2017-11-02
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PASS Summit 2017 Day 1
It’s the first full day of the 2017 PASS Summit. As I write this, I am somewhere over the panhandle...
2017-11-01
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SQL Server Temporal Tables
Temporal data storage, which was defined in the ANSI SQL:2011 standard, describes an architecture in which relational databases maintain row-level...
2017-10-19 (first published: 2017-10-11)
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PASS Summit 2017 is Coming
The yearly PASS Summit is just around the corner, a little less than six weeks away. For those not familiar...
2017-09-22
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Knowing Your Data
Is it possible to be an effective data professional without knowing anything about the domain of data you support? I...
2017-09-01
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Using the SSIS Script Component With Multiple Outputs
One of the more common questions I find in SQL Server SSIS forums is how to split apart a single...
2017-08-22
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Upcoming Full-Day SSIS Class in Dallas
This year I’ve delivered my full-day Building Better SSIS Packages course a half dozen times across the country, but I...
2017-07-21
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Create a Staging Load with Biml
When designing the ETL architecture for new or changing systems, one of the more common needs is to create a...
2017-07-25 (first published: 2017-07-12)
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Running SSIS in an Azure VM
In the previous post in this series, I addressed how to use an on-premises instance of SSIS to move data...
2017-07-10
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Blogs
Presenting with Visual Studio Code
A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...
Advice I Like: In 100 Years
By Steve Jones
In 100 years a lot of what we take to be true now will...
dataMinds Saturday 2026 – Slides
At Saturday the 21st of February I’m presenting an introduction to dimensional modelling at...
Forums
AllocationType as ROW_OVERFLOW_DATA
Hello, I inherited a number of tables with like 20-30 column using nvarchar(256) in...
is it true we cant debug c# scripts in ssis anymore under vs
Hi, i'm running vs2022. I'm trying out a c# script that i'd like to...
Question of the Day
Missing the Jaro Winkler Distance
I upgraded a SQL Server 2019 instance to SQL Server 2025. I wanted to test the fuzzy string search functions. I run this code:
SELECT JARO_WINKLER_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
I get this error message:Msg 195, Level 15, State 10, Line 1 'JARO_WINKLER_DISTANCE' is not a recognized built-in function name.What is wrong? See possible answers