Don’t let the Fear Factor hold up approval of your Data Warehouse Project
Does the following situation sound familiar? Your complex organization has enormous amounts of operational data stored in everything from Excel sheets and Access tables to clustered ...
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I finally finished creating my flat file test data for a series of SSIS practice exercises. While trying to create the finished project to break it down into smaller problems I ran into this error ...
View ArticleHow to flatten data using the Pivot Transform in SSIS.
The Pivot Transform is a very powerful tool but often overlooked and isn't the first thing to come to mind when you need it most. Imagine you have a table that has an employee listing for each type ...
View ArticleDynamic calculations of running totals
Dynamic calculations of running totals A few weeks back, a friend from South Africa wrote to me asking if I knew of a way to quickly produce cumulative totals from monthly data figures. Here ...
View ArticleUnderstanding "Set Based"approache and "Procedural Based" approach.
Hi Folks, Presenting you all, one of the most interesting topic based on SQL Performance tunning: SET Based & Procedural Based approach in SQL. I would like to share with you all as I found ...
View ArticleWebinar: Controlling Your SSIS Control Flow Using Containers
The Control Flow of SSIS provides numerous ways to control the processing of your ETL tasks. Fortunately, programming is no longer required to control looping and processing logic as they were in ...
View ArticleSetting your predicate arguments at run time
Introduction A few days ago, I did a presentation for a Virtual Chapter meeting where I discussed SQL Server Data Access Layers. The user obtained his or her data by submitting an argument to ...
View ArticleSetting your predicate arguments at run time Part: 2 MultiSelect
Introduction A few days ago, I did a presentation for a Virtual Chapter meeting where I discussed SQL Server Data Access Layers. The user obtained his or her data by submitting an ...
View ArticleMaster Data Services 2014: Creating nightly load processes
Introduction A few days ago, I ran into an interesting issue when creating a stored procedure to load new data into a 2012 Master Data Services entity via a staging table and a SQL Server ...
View ArticleMaster Data Services Disaster Recovery Challenges
Introduction While Master Data Services is the best tool to come along to permit user to update their qualitative and quantitative data, disaster recovery from the failure of a model or the ...
View ArticleMaster Data Services for the Beginner Part 01
Introduction About 12 months ago, I started to look at Master Data Services in a serious manner. I had toyed with the product in SQL Server 2008 R2 but (like others did) found it very awkward ...
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