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JSON Has a Cost

Posted on January 14, 2026 by way0utwest

JSON seems to be everywhere these days. Many application developers like it across all sorts of languages, C#, JAVA, Python, and more. They use it for transferring information between systems, and are comfortable serializing hierarchical object data into JSON from … Continue reading →

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Renaming a Column: #SQLNewBlogger

Posted on January 14, 2026 by way0utwest

This is a short post on how to rename a column in a SQL Server table. Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. I Typo’d a … Continue reading →

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An SSIS Upgrade

Posted on January 12, 2026 by way0utwest

I came across a post recently on the Microsoft Fabric blog about the evolution of SSIS 2025..I hadn’t heard much about SSIS in SQL Server 2025, so I thought this might provide some info on the investments that Microsoft is … Continue reading →

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Setting PK Names in Redgate Data Modeler

Posted on January 12, 2026 by way0utwest

A customer was testing Redgate Data Modeler and complained that it auto-generated PK names. I had to test and discover if I could make things better, and I could. This post shows how. This is part of a series on … Continue reading →

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