SSIS Bad Habits: Decreasing SSIS Package Performance

This tip will explain some mistakes SSIS developers usually make when designing ETL and how they should be avoided to help improve performance.

Recursive Triggers

Setting SQL Deadlock Priority to Control the Transaction that is Rolled Back

Learn how to control which SQL Server transaction will get rolled back when a deadlock occurs by using DEADLOCK_PRIORITY.

Migrating to Synapse

Deploy and Configure Azure SQL Managed Instance

This article covers how to deploy, configure and test the managed instance version of Azure SQL Database using the General-Purpose edition.

Upgrading SQL Server Central

It's time to look at an instance upgrade for SQL Server Central. Or is it? Steve shares some thoughts about the process and decision making.

Introducing the MySQL DELETE statement

In this article, I focus exclusively on the DELETE statement to help round out our discussion on the core DML statements in MySQL. Overall, the DELETE statement is fairly basic, but one that’s no less necessary to have in your arsenal of DML tools.

Automate Power BI desktop data model with a PowerShell script

Learn how you can use PowerShell to update the Power BI data model.

Dealing with Deadlocks

Poking the Bear

If you're an experienced, knowledgeable, seasoned (I won't say old), SQL Server data professional, and you choose to use Trace Events (Profiler), more power to you. That's it. That's all I have to say. Do what you think best. I'm never, ever (again), going to second guess you. Further, my apologies for ever having done […]