SSIS: Change Encryption on a Project and Packages

When creating packages, the default security protection level is set as EncryptSensitiveWithUserKey. The user key mentioned is created off of the login of the user who created the project. If a developer other than the one who originally created the project or package opens it, they will receive the following warnings: Warning loading project_name.dtproj: Warning: … Continue reading SSIS: Change Encryption on a Project and Packages

SQL Server’s Max Degree of Parallelism

I've been working on performance issues in the production database this week, taking it from a "server" level instead of database/table/index level and also adding some query changes. The database is working better, and I am continuing to keep it heading in that direction. Adding OPTION (MAXDOP 1) to certain queries has increased performance (sometimes … Continue reading SQL Server’s Max Degree of Parallelism