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Enhancing SSIS ETL Tools with SolarWinds Task Factory

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SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) has been the de facto ETL tool for over 15 years for DBAs, Developers and Business Intelligence Professionals to extract, transform and load data (i.e. ETL tasks) for specific business processes, data-centric applications, data warehousing, reporting and data exchange between organizations. SSIS is a great product with high adoption across the globe, but has some limitations related to modern data sources, performance and streamlining tedious tasks. How can we overcome these limitations and have SSIS provide greater value?

2023-04-10

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Can We Please Stop Sending Passwords Over the Wire?

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While analyzing SQL Server's network protocol, I came across a weird fact: when a database client logs in using SQL Server authentication (as opposed to Windows authentication), it has to send the user's password to the server, in blatant violation of common security guidelines. At first, I couldn't believe it; SQL Server generally does an […]

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2022-03-02

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MSSQL Server AlwaysON: Get alerted for inconsistencies in logins, jobs and databases

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This script will create the necessary login and linked servers on a given availability replica. Please ensure that the script is executed on all the replicas.

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2022-02-22 (first published: )

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Query control made easy

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Overview As we all know, data security is a never-ending battle. Every day, we hear of new data breaches. It's a hard problem, and there is no single solution, other than a defense in depth. Let's look at one of those defenses for databases: query control. Query control is a simple idea: most applications access […]

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2022-01-07

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Question of the Day

A Strange Result

What does this code return in SSMS 20 from SQL Server 2019? 

select '|' + CHAR(0)+'abc' + '|';

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