Join Me at PASS Summit 2016
It seems like it was just yesterday that we all said goodbye in Seattle at last year’s PASS Summit, but...
2016-06-22
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Tim Mitchell
Bad Data Can Kill
Bad data can kill. Literally. I’m not talking about the impact of bad data on the bottom line of business,...
2016-05-31 (first published: 2016-05-20)
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ETL Data Lineage
Before I began my technical career over a decade and a half ago, I spent several years working in law...
2016-05-06
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SSIS Training Classes for Summer 2016
If you are looking for affordable, high-quality training on SQL Server Integration Services, you may be interested in one of...
2016-05-05
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Refocus
Three years ago, I left the ranks of full-time employment to become an independent consultant. At the same time, I...
2016-05-04
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ETL Auditing
It happens far too often: Once an ETL process has been tested and executes successfully, there are no further checks...
2016-03-29 (first published: 2016-03-22)
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ETL Logging
If you were to poll data professionals on which tasks they enjoy working on the most, ETL logging would probably...
2016-03-22 (first published: 2016-03-14)
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Polishing The Silverware
A few weeks ago I met a couple of my business partners in a moderately upscale restaurant in the Washington,...
2016-03-08
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Change Tracking for Data Warehouse Loads (Webinar)
For data warehouse professionals, data change detection is is a central part of what we do. Accurately detecting new, changed,...
2016-03-01
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Using Custom File Delimiters in SSIS
File-based ETL is usually dull. Most systems generate (or expect to consume) files that are delimited, with a common field...
2016-02-16 (first published: 2016-02-05)
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Blogs
My 2024 in Data: Music
By Steve Jones
This is my last week of the year working (I guess I come back...
A New Word: Suente
By Steve Jones
suente– n. the state of being so familiar with someone that you can be...
Side Projects
Anyone (everyone?) who has ever tried to learn a programming language knows that to...
Forums
Automating Export of PowerQuery to SQL Server using DAX Studio...?
I wrote a PowerQuery that parses a table from a PDF, and I want...
Attaching an SQL Server database without Transaction Log Files through SQL Server Management Studio.
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Superseded Indexes
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Question of the Day
Superseded Indexes
Which of these indexes is superseded by another?
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