The Side Project
When I first started working as a technologist some 17 years ago, I was doing fairly low-level stuff: moving and...
2017-01-11 (first published: 2017-01-04)
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Tim Mitchell
ETL Error Handling
In designing a proper ETL architecture, there are two key questions that must be answered. The first is, “What should...
2016-12-28
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Survey Results: Skipping the Holidays
Last week I posted a brief survey about working the holiday. To those who normally are not required to work...
2016-12-27
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Survey: Skipping the Holidays?
For a little pre-holiday fun, I’ve got a simple scenario to present to you, and I am interested in your...
2016-12-23
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SSIS Custom Logging Levels
In my ongoing series on ETL best practices, I recently wrote about the importance of logging in extract-transform-load processes. For...
2016-12-22
482 reads
KPIs in SSRS 2016
Key performance indicators, or KPIs, are at-a-glance metrics for simple insight into the business. These are each designed to provide...
2016-12-30 (first published: 2016-12-22)
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Report Portal in SSRS 2016
SQL Server Reporting Services benefits from a major update in SQL Server 2016, which is obvious from the first interaction...
2016-12-20
565 reads
The Trails We Leave
Over the weekend I got an email from have i been pwned, a website that tracks data breaches and notifies...
2016-12-19
348 reads
SSRS 2016: Great and Getting Better
Although I’ve been a regular user of SQL Server Reporting Services since it was released in the mid-2000s, I’ve done...
2016-12-18
413 reads
SSIS Execution Status Lookup
The SSIS catalog comes packaged with a rich set of built-in reports that give those monitoring Integration Services a window...
2016-12-17
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Blogs
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI
By Steve Jones
I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
Forums
Optimism Without Illusion or Why AI Needs Blunt Technologists
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Optimism Without Illusion or Why...
SSIS with VS2022 64/32 issue with Excel files
Hi all, I'm trying to do classic scenario for loading multiple Excel files into...
Case part is sloooooow
Hi So the case statement is slowing this down - but for the life...
Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
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