In the next month I’ll be speaking at two conferences, one in London, the DevWeek and another one at Neuss, the PASS European Summit. At the DevWeek I’ll deliver a session created explicitly to give developers some insight on SQL Server development, so that when they have to deal with a database they can do the right thing just from the ...

While I was working on a package to incrementally load a dimension in the DWH I’m developing for a customer, I stumbled upon a tricky little bug (I think, I still have to have a response from MS) that had – and will have – a little impact on how I create my packages. I’ve found that, when working on an empty table that has an identity column, if ...