Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you needed to export data from one SQL Server database to another? It's a common task for database administrators, analysts, and individuals working ...

Building an ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) pipeline is an essential task in data integration and processing. SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) provides a powerful platform to design, automate, ...

Johnson Controls’ Building Solutions Group in North America (BSNA) has domain over a broad portfolio of HVAC-, fire-, and security-focused products and solutions. BSNA is deploying a massive ...

When I joined the SQL Tools team as a PM back in October 2018, my top priority was to release SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 18. I expected a fair amount of work but didn’t realize how ...

The second major version of Azure Data Factory, Microsoft's cloud service for ETL (Extract, Transform and Load), data prep and data movement, was released to general availability (GA) about two months ...

If you are installing Scale Out on a single computer, install the Scale Out Master and Scale Out Worker features at the same time. When you install the features at the same time, the endpoint is ...

The Running Packages folder lists the packages that are currently running on the server. The Stored Packages folder lists the packages that are saved in the package store. These are the only packages ...

Microsoft complements its relational database engine, SQL Server, with several add-on services that manage different aspects of enterprise business intelligence and information processing such as data ...

SQL Server 2008 R2, which ships this month, allows end users to tap into the powerful business intelligence features of SQL Server via tight integration with popular Microsoft applications like Excel.