When looking to migrate, consolidate or deprovision parts of a SQL solution it’s key to understand the dependencies on the objects inside. Identifying dependencies can be challenging and I wanted to demonstrate one way to approach this. We’ll start with some objects across a couple of databases: The simplest option to find references within a […]
I’ve recently been reviewing SSIS packages to make some performance fixes and needed a way to validate the results of those changes. I thought I’d share the scripts as they may be useful for others. Rather than relying on run times from the SQL Agent running the packages I wanted to dive deeper into the […]
Within SSIS you can make use of custom components which aren’t present out of the box. An example of some would be the Azure Feature Pack if you’re working with cloud resources. These will let us use features not available natively. They can also provide a challenge down the line when we come to deploy changes to […]
Shifting from handling data on premises to Azure has been a real change of mindset. Whilst what I want to build may be similar, the how part is completely different. There’s a learning curve not just to the tooling but how you use it too. This is one of those instances. I had a storage container with files which […]
Dynamic SQL has many uses and one of these can help us fix Parameter Sniffing issues. Here we’ll look at how it can be used to generate multiple execution plans for the same query. Parameter sniffing is a common issue. Even for simple queries we can run into suboptimal plans being produced. There are multiple ways we […]
Andy Brownsword 