Posts filed under: sql server
SQL Management Studio 17.1
Starting in 2016 SQL Server Management Studio got its own team at Microsoft and after many years of very little improvement we are starting to see some pretty consistent......
Connecting to a Pre-SQL 2012 SSIS Instance with SQL 2012 SSMS
I was recently trying to do some development work with SSIS. I had SQL 2012 installed on a development VM and had issues connecting to an SSIS 2008 R2 instance......
Andy Null and Data Cleansing Fun
Have you ever thought of changing your name to “Blank Null”? Would you still have to pay taxes? Could you even get a job? How many report writers and ETL......
SQL Server 2017
Well it seems like just yesterday (well maybe a year ago) that we were talking about SQL 2016. With Microsoft’s Azure first strategy it seems that we may be back......
SSMS 2017 CTP2 is not compatible with VS 2013
If you were like me and wanted to get SSMS 2016 to connect to later versions of SQL server or Azure you probably went to the SSMS 2016 page to......
When is Select * ok
Generally speaking SELECT * should be avoided. There are multiple reasons for this, including: Requesting columns you do not need may force the optimizer to use more objects than needed......
Optimization Smarts! Join Simplification
Someone recently read a post by Erik Darling over at BrentOzar.com titled Is it ever worth adding indexes to table variables. They were a little confused by the post and......
Idempotent statements
Idempotent statements are those where applying the statement multiple times yields the same result. Commonly in database development this is significant during deployment activities. If we create a new table......
SSIS Package Parts First Impressions
Reading the way package parts were described in the SQL 2016 release notes I was pretty excited. I remember having hundreds of SSIS packages where the overall structure was fairly......
Planning Upgrades, Migrations, Consolidations.. SQL and more
Steve Jones posted a good editorial a month or so ago about why he typically prefers side-by-side migrations over in-place upgrades. If you are running virtualized and want to upgrade in-place then......