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Really, at this point what is there that hasn’t been done about the ghosts? Well, if you are well tuned to these apparitions, you may have received the urge to explore them with Extended Events – sometimes called XE for short.
Recently you may have seen my first article on this topic over at SQL Solutions Group. If not, here is the link so you can read that article first before proceeding here. This article is […]
There comes a time when mistakes are made. Sometimes those mistakes can be as annoying as a spelling mistake during the creation of a stored procedure. When a mistake such as that happens, we are […]
Every now and again I find myself working with SSIS for one reason or another. Every now and again I find myself fighting with SSIS because it provides less than useful error messages. This is […]
The calendar tells us that once again we have reached the second tuesday of the month. In the SQL Community, this means a little party as many of you may already know. This is the […]
There are a million and one uses for synonyms. There are at least that many uses for SSIS. The reality is, not all of those uses are good for you nor for your data nor […]
A recent discussion got me to thinking about Auditing. To be honest, it got started with a complaint about some documentation that seemed overly light about the various fields related to auditing as it stands […]
Reading that title, you might sit and wonder why you would ever want to partition a temporary table. I too would wonder the same thing. That withstanding, it is an interesting question that I wanted […]
It has been well documented and is well known that SQL Server supports certain older versions of SQL Server in a compatibility mode. This setting is something that can be configured on the database properties […]
As has been well publicized, today is the official Release To Manufacturing date for SQL Server 2014. You can read more about all of that here. Something that hasn’t received much word is a new […]