(Chris Webb) If you’ve ever built a BI solution it’s likely you will have had to integrate third party data, and if that’s the case you will know how painful it often is to get your hands on that data.

(Kenneth Fisher) When you think of system databases, tables, etc there are a number of things you might think of.

(Bhavesh Patel) When working with SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), we might need a package that calls another package by executing a package task.

(Pinal Dave) Recently one of my blog readers contacted me and ask if I knew about wait type parallel_backup_queue. I have often got the same question during the Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check.

(Jeremy Kadlec) Data breaches are becoming too common place with some accounts reporting more than 1000 breaches per year with close to 50 million records exposed yearly in the financial, business, education, government and healthcare industries.

(James Serra) Below are the top 12 questions I am seeing from customers looking to migrate on-prem SQL Server to Azure, and the blogs that I have wrote that try to answer each question (I have updated most of these blogs):

(Lindsay Moore) Knowing what you want from SQL Server is probably the biggest step toward running it successfully in business applications, according to consultant Koen Verbeeck.

(Pinal Dave) Recently I was helping a customer who hired me for my services. He had an issue where they noticed that the size of the MSDB database has grown huge.

(blobeater) I am sure many missed the updates to Azure SQL Database SLA (Service Level Agreement). It used to be 99.99% across all tiers but split between two different high-availability architectural models.

(Jason Brimhall) The second Tuesday of the month is upon us once again. That means it is time for another group blog party called TSQLTuesday.